1.   Curious, Zussman decided to hear how a basketball game would sound in the ancient tongue.

2.   Fox is well aware that Hebrew went through many stages and ages and does not maintain that his method definitively captures the ancient tongue.

3.   Hebrew and Greek are the original languages of Scripture, but few can read those ancient tongues.

4.   The trick was explaining a modern disease in an ancient tongue.

5.   The words are Sanskrit, the ancient invocational tongue of India, and the repetitive melodies stimulate a trancelike mental openness.

6.   And Jovovich, a beautiful and expressive actress, manages to convey an exceptional presence and impishness even though most of her lines are spoken in ancient tongues.

7.   He became a virtuoso of the intricate Albanian language, the only surviving branch of the ancient tongue called Illyrian.

8.   This sparked a mix of uproar and indignant laughter from the Protestant ranks, few of whom understand the ancient Irish tongue.

9.   This sparked a mix of uproar and indignant laughter from the Protestant benches, few of whom understand the ancient Irish tongue.

10.   He asserts that Shafigi is indeed the last known speaker of the ancient tongue.