It was the dumbness of these women--they could only speak in prayer--it was that that overcame her.
Dumbness is, by far, the commonest disorder of speech, occurring in about ten per cent of shock cases in the first thousand cases of shell-shock seen by Lt.
It seems that another physician had already tried to cure the patient of dumbness by removing teeth without an anesthetic.
The patient remarked that he had never been so near being able to speak since his dumbness came on.
What had happened to me in the past, when my head had been hurt, and my speech affected by it, gave a likelier look to my dumbness than it might have borne in the case of another person.
She obstinately declined to learn the deaf and dumb alphabet--on the ground that dumbness was not associated with deafness in her case.
Be mine the privilege to supplement defect, Give dumbness voice, and let the laboring intellect Find utterance in word, or possibly in deed!
It was awful to go on thus beating against this uncanny, dark, shadowy resistance; these unreal doubts and dreads, that by their very dumbness were becoming real to him, too.
It may have been a recognition of danger in the very charm of her attitude, or a twang of digestion, that caused a sudden dumbness to fall on James.
She was dumb before him, and her dumbness cut Jane to the heart.
Dumbness would come upon Rose in moments which another woman, Jane for instance, would have winged with happy words.
Her parents had never understood all the longings and aspirations that had filled her fermenting years, and now she could not comprehend the dumbness of her child.
It was true that Falkner developed chronic dumbness in Larry's conversational presence.
Deafness then, in our sense, means the incapacity to be instructed by means of the ear in the normal way, and dumbness means only that ignorance of how to speak one's mother tongue which is the effect of the deafness.
Holder notices that dumbnessis due to the want of hearing, and therefore speech can be acquired through watching the lips, though he admits the task is a laborious one.
In the case of the deaf and dumb, as these words are generally understood, dumbness is merely the result of ignorance in the use of the voice, this ignorance being due to the deafness.
Hence if one has never heard, or has lost hearing in early childhood, he has never been able to imitate that language which his parents and others used, and the condition of so-called dumbness is added to his deafness.
If I do ask, How God can dumbness keep While Sin creeps grinning through His house of Time, Stabbing His saintliest children in their sleep, And staining holy walls with clots of crime?
With thanks more large than man e'er said or sung, So let the dumbness of this image be My eloquence, and still interpret me.
She had thought the world stood always ready to accept self-confessed guilt, and now her throat worked spasmodically until at last her dumbness was conquered.
Witness Number One was Sim Squires, and as though his tongue had been stricken with suddendumbness and his limbs with paralysis, he hung back when he had been called.
The question must inevitably be answered one day; and Katherine, as had been said, was moved just now, dumbness of long habit somewhat melted.
The gentle dumbness which often held her did not trouble him.
It seemed to Aline that on this particular afternoon a strange dumbness had descended on her.
Their agitated ears are waiting for a word of joy and by your silence, which is like the dumbness of the rock, you crush their soul to the earth.
Or do all the scales fie, and is all your world nothing but one fie,--a cruel and mad game of laws, a malicious laugh of a despot at the dumbness and submissiveness of the slave?
All the quite happy entertainment which he gets out of life comes to him from his contemplation of the peasant, as himself a rooted part of the earth, translating the dumbness of the fields into humour.
The excuse for it lies, as I have said, in the way I am organized; in the bovine dumbness of my life, bursting forth in a few crises in storms of the deepest bodily and spiritual tempest.
He drew back his fist as if to strike me, and I wonder that I did not run from the cabin and jump ashore, but I stood my ground, more from stupor and what we Dutch call dumbness than anything else.
Standing beside the little typewriter-table, exactly where her caller had surprised her, she had watched with a mortifying dumbness the second meeting between the pleasure-dog and the little Doctor that was.
What dumbness had seized his tongue just now he could not imagine.
Beginning with the annunciation and birth of John the Baptist, Strauss considers the apparition to Zacharias and his consequent dumbness as actual external circumstances, susceptible of a natural interpretation.
Sympathy was in that pretty room, complete human sympathy, and a sympathy that sprang from their vitality, avoiding the dusky dumbness of the phlegmatic.
What prompted it, and whence it came, were merely mysteries, which the dumbness of dogs must forever sustain.
Only when Mr. Meredith had expressed and re-expressed all that was in him to say did the young fellow give evidence that his dumbness proceeded from policy.
Most certainly not," spoke up the squire, recovering from the dumbness into which the rapid occurrences of the last three minutes had reduced him.
The Burman shut his mouth tightly and exhibited signs of a return to his former condition of dumbness that worked upon the assistant like gall.
Yet she did not seem sensitive about her dumbness and made frequent casual references to it in her written remarks.
And how strangely little herdumbness seemed to matter after all!
He was smitten with dumbness which was to continue until the promise of the angel had been realized.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dumbness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
