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Meanings of as mute in English

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Usage of as mute in English
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Swearengen Jones was as mute as the mountains in which he lived.
Brewster's Millions
2
Up to this time he had fought as mute as a fox.
Put Yourself in His Place
3
Is matter, then, still as mute as we've come to think?
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
4
She is as obstinate as a mule and as mute as a fish.
The Hand in the Dark
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But that foreman of hers is as mute as a clam.
The Return of Blue Pete
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We had become as mute and reticent as Hans, our guide.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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I had enough to keep me silent, and Dr. Sandford was as mute.
Daisy in the Field
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The 'Titanic' and 'transcendental' Faubourg remained as mute as a mouse!
France and the Republic / A Record of Things Seen and Learned in...
9
I am now as mute and silent as the grave.
Gerfaut — Volume 4
10
Just then, as mute and emotionless as ever, seven crewmen climbed onto the platform.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
11
Then Dolly promised to be as mute as a fish, and took his departure.
The Duke's Children
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She nudged Recreant with her elbow, but he was as mute as she was.
James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
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The house was as mute as if it were under the spell of a magician.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
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But these Pythagoreans had numbers tattooed to them as mute and wordless as they were.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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Since then they be all as mute as mice.
Shining Ferry
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She couldn't stand it when people pretended her mother was deaf as well as mute.
Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
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