But Tom said he warn't able to make anything out of deef and dumb signs, and the same with goo-gooing.
And when we see Jubiter Dunlap here spreading around in the very same disguise Jake told us HE was going to wear, we thought it was Jake his own self--and he was goo-gooing deef and dumb, and THAT was according to agreement.
Tom said it would take him days to get so he wouldn't forget he was a deef and dummy sometimes, and speak out before he thought.
Jake was going to play deef and dumb here, so the neighbors wouldn't know his voice.
And who do you reckon is this mowing idiot here that's letting on all these weeks to be a deef and dumb stranger?
I've got to playdeef and dumb when there's a neighbor around.
Then she cheered up, and faced around and said: "Danged if I didn't begin to think you fellers was deef and dumb.
Fust I thot you was deefand dumb, then I thot you was sick or crazy, or suthin', and then by and by I begin to reckon you was a passel of sickly fools that couldn't think of nothing to say.
He's so deef, he wouldn't hear you most likely, but you never can count on deef folks.
And you live all alone here with a deef old man who don't talk?
Then he says: "How are you on thedeef and dumb, Bilgewater?
The duke said, leave him alone for that; said he had played a deef and dumb person on the histronic boards.
The duke said, leave him alone for that; said he had played a deef and dumb person on the histrionic boards.
When Bailey was a delegate to the Methodist Conference up in Boston, him and a crowd visited the deef and dumb asylum.
No wonder they raise so many deef and dumb folks in Trumet.
And Ed wrote that an ear trumpet would probably help some, but why didn't I try a pair of them patent fixin's that are made to put inside deef people's ears?
She was that deef housekeeper Bailey hired for me, teacher," explained the captain.
If you'd mentioned that deef image's name you'd never got ME to drive you, I tell you that!
Twas thatdeef idiot, Debby Beasley, Cy; that's who 'twas.
Oh, well, he was deeffur three years back, and churches don't do much good to deef people.
But the cold sorter settled in his ears, and he's deef as an adder.
No use saying good-by to Silas; he's stone deef and besides he's sound asleep.
Old Bill is kinder deef in one ear, and he didn't notice much what wuz goin' on on that side of him.
Looks like all the Deef Woman wants is to be let alone, while she makes a play the best she can for a home-stake.
Pinon Bill jumps his pony sideways out of her reach, an' at that the Deef Woman c'lapses on her face an' shoulder in a dead swoon.
It's on account of this yere drunkard the Major that the Deef Woman comes stagin' it in with Old Monte one day.
What the Deef Woman says to the Major, or him to her; or what makes him hit the trail for Red Dog that a-way no one learns.
The Deef Woman has a brief pow-wow with him alone over at the O.
The fact is this were Deef Woman plays that remarkable sweet no one dances at all; jest nacherally sets'round hungerin' for them melodies, an' cadences to that extent they actooally overlooks drinks.
That's what brings the Deef Woman stampedin' to the scene.
It tells how Pinon Bill gets a hoss on Jack Moore; leaves the camp bogged up to the saddle-girths in doubt about who downs Burke; an' stakes the Deef Woman so she pulls her freight for the States.
The Deef Woman ain't seemin' to regard the Major's jumpin' the outfit as no loss, however.
The fools are them who are deef to the call from on high.
Clarissa and me yelling to Lonesome to keep off--forgitting that he was stone deef and dumb--and James vowing that he was going to be slaughtered in cold blood.
Feller over the mountains had a son that was deef and dumb for twenty-odd year.
The Landlady--I forgot you was deef or I wouldn't have wasted my time hitting my knuckles against your door.
The Landlady--A lot of good a piano does a deef person like you.
We have prayed for yore reform day and night, but the Lord seems to have turned a deef ear to our petitions.
A blind cripple that was born deef and dumb would have noticed that the first time he ran across you.
What in the nation has-- has your name got to do with a deef man and the Doxology?
Gabe," he drawled, "did you ever hear about the feller that was born stone deef and the Doxology?
She didn't say a word and Shavin's he never said nothin' and I felt as if I was preaching in a deef and dumb asylum.
They arrived, and exclaimingDeef Allah, they were admitted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deef" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
