Word of it went to Boston, and as a result the Board of Education of that city wrote to him, offering to pay him five hundred dollars if he would teach his system in a school for deaf-mutes there.
He had already had very considerable success in teaching deaf-mutes to talk by visible speech, or sign-language, and this success was repeated in Canada.
The new arrival was the Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil, who had once visited Bell's school for deaf-mutes in Boston.
The Mutes admit of classification also as Labials, p, b, ph.
Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared with that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes 1: 263.
Sign Language among the North American Indians, compared to that among other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes (Mallery) 1: 263.
Nevertheless, the gestures that refer to specific concrete objects are frequently so similar that many of the signs employed by the gesture-language of the deaf-mutes of Europe may be found among the Dakota Indians.
In more recent times the opportunity of investigating spontaneous gesture-language has not been so great, because deaf-mutes have become more and more educated to the use of verbal language.
Investigations of the spontaneously arising gesture-language of deaf-mutes date largely from the first half of the nineteenth century.
Such a system cannot be foreign to the interests of schools intended for average, normal children, because it is not a specialised method, like that for deaf-mutes or for the blind.
The Poysoner, with some two or three Mutes comes in againe, seeming to lament with her.
This done, he himself led the executioners into a subterranean part of the castle, where they were beheaded by blackmutes as a reward for their obedience.
He then sent a doctor to Zobeide; who succeeded in causing a miscarriage, and who, his work done, was seized and strangled by the black mutes who had just beheaded the gipsies.
Better than Kedge, I think: Kedge's mutesdresses rusty, an' their trousis is frayed.
Mrs. Curtis had reckoned her resources, and found that mutes would be an "expense.
At a cheap funeral mutescost half-a-sovereign and their liquor.
The signs made by congenital and uninstructed deaf-mutes to be now considered are either strictly natural signs, invented by themselves, or those of a colloquial character used by such mutes where associated.
The deaf-mutes understood all but the sign for wheel, which they make as a large circle, with one hand.
American deaf-mutes indicate the ears by placing two fingers of each hand on each side of the head and moving them backward and forward.
Deaf-mute signs: The French deaf-mutes add to the straddling of the index the motion of a trot.
Some people ought to have mutes for servants in Vanity Fair--mutes who could not write.
Alexander Graham Bell received the offer, which he accepted, and he was soon at work teaching the deaf mutes in the school which Boston had opened for those thus afflicted.
The Emperor had attended Bell's school for deaf mutes in Boston when it was at the height of its success, and had conceived a warm admiration for the young man and taken a deep interest in his work.
His book on Visible Speech explained his method of instructing deaf mutes in speech by the aid of their sight, and of teaching them to understand the speech of others by watching their lips as the words are spoken.
There is some evidence which seems to point to a prouunciation of the voiced mutes which, like the South German pronunciation of g, d, b, but slightly differentiated them from the unvoiced mutes, so that confusion migh easily arise.
All the consonants excepting the mutes may be indefinitely, prolonged in utterance without the help of a vowel, and even the mutes may be produced with an aspirate instead of a vocal explosion.
In 1801 he heard of the Abbe Sicard's training of deaf-mutes in Paris, and resolved to try something similar in Italy.
Deaf mutes make sign for female, and cross hands as in their sign for baby, and move them to front and upwards" (420.
Deaf-mutes make the combined sign for male and female, and then denote the height with right hand held horizontally" (420.
So once more they passed the slopes and passages, while the mutes above watched them from their stones with marvelling eyes, till they reached the open space beyond, and there they loosed Eddo.
Only the dwarf-mutes seemed to know the answer, for when she passed them they nudged each other, and grinned and thrust their little woolly heads together staring, several of them, into one bowl.
In the open space beyond they saw a strange sight, for across it were streaming all the dwarf-mutes carrying their aged and sick and infants, and bearing on their backs or piled up in litters their mats and cooking utensils.
When they had finished eating, at some signal which Rachel did not perceive, mutes came in who bore away the fragments of the meal.
At each new moon these mutes celebrated what Rachel was informed they looked upon as a festival.
Now the mutes brought forward a slight litter woven of boughs on which the withered leaves still hung, boughs from Nya's fallen tree.
Indeed, these mutes either knew, or pretended that they knew who would be the occupant of each grave.
As Noie put it about her mistress and stepped back to see how it became her beauty, two of the dwarf-mutes appeared creeping up the cave, and squatting down before Nya began to make signs to her.
Eight mutes bore a litter of boughs, and on it lay Nya, dead, her long white hair hanging down on either side of the litter.
Perhaps the mutes will kill us in the heart of the wall," said Noie.
Farewell," and turning round she made a sign to certain dwarf-mutes who were gathered behind her as though they awaited her commands.
At least they died, some almost at once, and some within a day or two of entering that deadly shade, and were borne away to burial by the mutes who spent their spare time in the digging of little graves which they must fill.
And he returned the common answer of the schools, that it was fit the vowels should be set before the mutesand semi-vowels.
Thus all the names of the mutes besides one have an Alpha, as it were a light to assist their blindness; for Pi alone wants it, and Phi and Chi are only Pi and Kappa with an aspirate.
But the sexton and the two mutes exchanged significant glances, that plainly hinted their non-approval of this anti-professional, ultraliberality on the part of the comical coffin-maker.
The mutes looked grave; even the rebellious vice was panic-struck at the prodigious boldness of Mr. Allgag.
It has been seen that the sixteen mutes are reducible to four series.
After some time, the mutes appeared again, with great composure took the lady out of the swing, and conducted her to her apartment.
One of the mutes set the swing in motion; and as it approached one end of the room, she was opposed by a grim menacing figure armed with a huge rod of birch.
On the third day the vapours returned--the mutes reappeared--the menacing flagellants again affrighted her, and again she enjoyed a remission of her complaints.
Mutes sent out great voices to startle the sweeping bats.
At evening, they thronged together like a pale troop of shadowy mutes to assist at his departure to the under world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mutes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
