“a tongue blistered with smiling”
“Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.”
“They can wound, stories, they can blister.”
“Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!”
“The din of corporate avarice is a blister boil on the buttocks of humanity.”
“she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant”