After the Eiger and the glaciers of Grindelwald – colossal icy tongues that licked the village in the 1860s, but have retreated back into the mountains today – she returned to Interlaken to board the steamer across Lake Brienz to Giessbach Falls.
At the end of the match they slumped back in their seats exhausted, tongues hanging out, trying to catch their breath.
They might be hieroglyphs, frenzied maenads or black serpents with men's heads and menacing tongues – for stinging, perhaps, for uttering untruths, for screaming fury.
The chromosome-happy frog is a member of an ancient lineage of amphibians known as pipids, which are only represented today by about 30 species that lack tongues and stick solely to water.
"If he show us his wounds and tell us his deeds, we are to put our tongues into those wounds and speak for them," one Roman citizen says of Shakespeare's character.
She built her own language of weirdly articulated human forms, hybrids, dismembered limbs and grisly heads separated from bodies, black sockets for eyes and mouth, or with tongues doubling as livid penises, disembodied phalluses ejaculating blood, women-men and howling banshees warning of death and disaster.
Pyne's argument on Sunday morning was colleagues should hold their tongues – not fuel the media's appetite for stories about disunity because journalists were not "trying to help the government be re-elected".
The highlight: Kimbra herself made sure that her arrival onstage didn't go unnoticed – she was wearing silver stack-heel boots and a floaty white cloak which was later opened to reveal a dress made of tongues of silver paper.
Understanding the behavior of ice shelves, which stretch out from the ice sheets like gigantic tongues over the water beneath, is key to understanding how ice sheets will behave in a warming world.
The remains included tongues, skin, male genitals and organs, as well as full skeletons, skulls and limb bones.
Since they don't have tongues, they suck in their prey with their broad mouths using their arms to help facilitate entry.
