Swearengen Jones was as mute as the mountains in which he lived.

Up to this time he had fought as mute as a fox.

Is matter, then, still as mute as we've come to think?

She is as obstinate as a mule and as mute as a fish.

But that foreman of hers is as mute as a clam.

We had become as mute and reticent as Hans, our guide.

I had enough to keep me silent, and Dr. Sandford was as mute.

The 'Titanic' and 'transcendental' Faubourg remained as mute as a mouse!

I am now as mute and silent as the grave.

Just then, as mute and emotionless as ever, seven crewmen climbed onto the platform.

Then Dolly promised to be as mute as a fish, and took his departure.

She nudged Recreant with her elbow, but he was as mute as she was.

The house was as mute as if it were under the spell of a magician.

But these Pythagoreans had numbers tattooed to them as mute and wordless as they were.

Since then they be all as mute as mice.

She couldn't stand it when people pretended her mother was deaf as well as mute.