They spoke little English, and less Gaelic; we conversed largely in gestures, and a sort of bastard tongue that owed its parentage largely to French.

The fellow appeared definitely Anglo-Saxon, yet he spoke a bastard tongue the base of which was Galla but so intermixed with other tongues that it would have been unintelligible to one less versed in African dialect and European languages than Tarzan.

"I'll cut your bastard tongue out!"

I shook my head in an effort to indicate my ignorance of his language, at the same time addressing him in the bastard tongue that the Sagoths use to converse with the human slaves of the Mahars.

Now she began to speak, very low and in that same bastard Greek tongue, mixed here and there with Mongolian words such as are common to the dialects of Central Asia.

Their accursed schools teach die Bahasa Indonesia tongue, so that young folk no longer learn the High and Low speeches, no longer know the castes and what address is proper to each, speaking at best a bastard middle tongue that pleases none and offends all.

First, mahendo'sat and stsho were already in communication with great difficulty through a bastard tongue involving kif, who spoke stsho.

English was in truth a bastard tongue and nobody cared how it grew - and it did!

Inside his tent, Fourmyle changed his clothes, changed his mind, changed again, undressed again, kicked his valets, and called for his tailor in a bastard tongue of French, Mayfair, and affectation.