There was no answer, nothing but the deaf silence, the blind darkness.
But the Jew, deaf and stupid, drew himself along the oar, hand over hand, and in a moment had caught hold of the gunwale of the boat.
He was stone deaf, and in consequence had become dumb; but for all that he was very eager to associate with the young men of the city and would not hear of being separated and set apart with the other deaf mutes.
No, not even then, nothing but outer darkness then and the gnashing of teeth, nothing but the deaf silence, nothing but the blind darkness, nothing but the unbroken blackness of an eternal night.
This young man, who died gallantly fighting in the cause of the republic, was no republican: but this does not render the murder of his father, a deaf [There were people both deaf and dumb in the prisons as conspirators.
It is also in contemplation to assist the blind and the deaf and dumb, and, finally, to establish a nursery for very young children left destitute.
The magnates of Staten Island, however, involved as they were in the general shipwreck of property and credit, were inexorably deaf to his eloquence.
It is a great truth tenderly said that God builds the nest for the blind bird; and may it not be that He opens closed eyes and unstops deaf ears to sights and sounds from which others by these very senses are debarred?
The old widow with whom I lodge has been deaf for the last twenty years.
Some individuals have the ear so organized that they can hear certain sounds, but are totally deaf to others.
Completely deprived of sight and hearing at an early period of childhood, she was a blind and deaf mute.
To this proposition he at first turned a deaf ear; but when he saw that his wife was about to return to her father's roof, he consented to leave the matter in the hands of his father-in-law.
Will you remain insensible to my grief and deaf to my prayers?
Once in charge of the chief eunuch, who had come to take them to the harem, Brigit and Monny might almost as well have been deaf and dumb.
Man continues in his carnal state, mocks at the Word, persecutes and hates my Spirit in the patriarchs, and the story is told to deaf ears.
It might strike the unthinking as an extraordinary peculiarity that a place so very, very good should require a curate in addition to a deaf rector.
Slightly deaf," his father called him, but he grew worse instead of better, and threatened to become as deaf as a post or a beetle in time.
Besides this he was more deaf on one side than on the other, as is often the case, and he happened to have his very bad ear turned to his father.
Joseph invariably grew very angry if he did not hear anybody, for he was ashamed of his deafness; but he often fell into a brown study and was as deaf as an adder.
If Hans had been deaf he would, none the less, have promptly obeyed the commands.
These same movements have been reported in the case of the blind and deaf Laura Bridgman,[9] and we have been explicitly assured that they were a spontaneous development, and not acquired by imitation.
Maybe the bent shoulders and his being deaf in one ear helps.
But when it develops that Auntie is taking the buttermilk cure for dyspepsia, has grown too deaf to enjoy the theater, and is bugs over manipulatin' the Ouija board, Lucy Lee gets out her address book and begins callin' up old friends.
But then just imagine having to talk to a deaf person in a ballroom!
Imagine having to talk in that way to a deaf person!
Some deaf people can hear music, and even compose it.
Deaf people are all something alike, though; and he's been with her a great deal, I suppose.
And I was thinking, Sophie, perhaps if they are not very deaf indeed, you know they might get so used to the sound of one's voice as to hear it even when it wasn't so much raised.
As for the General, there was a great doubt whether he ought to be Belisarius or Suwarrow; for, being nearly as blind as the one and as deaf as the other, his qualifications were about evenly balanced.
He wants to hear about those Daltons," screamed he into thedeaf man's ear.
The organ peels around thee its deep notes; But thou art deafto music’s noblest strains.
We want also to see the male and female training schools, under the charge of the Board of Education, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and the Drummond Orphanage, owned and supported by a merchant of that name.
Turning a deaf ear, however, to his advisers, he continued as immoveable as a rock.
The marquis laughed again: he heard the words with his ears, but his heart was deaf to the thought they clothed; hence he took Malcolm's earnestness for irreverence, and it amused him.
The blind and the deaf are not great poets, it is true.
If you were deaf and blind, and could have held Mr. Jefferson's hand, you would have seen in it a face and heard a kind voice unlike any other you have known.
Yet now and again you find one deaf and blind who has attained to his royal kingdom of beauty.
But I am not surprised now, since I have discovered what some of them believe to be the ordinary waking experience of one who is both deaf and blind.
I think he guesses; I think that already some have whispered in his ear, but he does not wish to listen who desires to remain deaf and blind.
Then we talked on as we could do well enough, since there was no one on my left where the board ended, and on Blanche's right was a fat old lord who seemed to be deaf and occupied himself in drinking more than he should have done.
I tried to warn you when you offered yourself, but you were deaf and blind and would not see or listen.
