The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.

Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.

All round me were tokens of a divided empire. The old grass and the new grass were striving together. In the low wet swales the verdure peeped out in vivid green ; beyond, on the mountains, lay light patches of snow, strangely relieved against their russet sides; all the humped hills looked like brindled kine in the shivers.

Thomas had used the bilingual sea in Quite Early One Morning (1945), so that two-tongued was a product of a natural piece of wordplay.