Lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak.
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Examples for "deaf-mute "
Examples for "deaf-mute "
1 A deaf - mute boy tells me that he saw two dogs fighting yesterday.
2 I have spent this night alone except for the deaf - mute and Callistus.
3 The boy turned out to be a deaf - mute of great intelligence.
4 Fra Palamone ordered me to resume my old part of deaf-mute .
5 Fernandez, a Spanish painter of the sixteenth century, was a deaf-mute .
1 A curious contortion of the deaf - and - dumb alphabet was used among the
2 There is more girlish laughter, more buzz and more deaf - and - dumb language.
3 She is learning the deaf - and - dumb alphabet in order the better to communicate with me.
4 No particular consideration has to be given to deaf - and - dumb employees.
5 This time Raissa had her little deaf - and - dumb sister with her.
6 However, here's a chance for you to practise deaf - and - dumb drill.
7 You can use deaf - and - dumb language if it's more comfortable.
8 The hall wore its deaf - and - dumb air, its black-and-white stillness.
9 He certainly had great use for his deaf - and - dumb servant.
10 The N. Y. employees are deaf - and - dumb girls supplied by schools from all over the country.
11 She would mix him up with the time when she went to visit the deaf - and - dumb hospital.
12 I practised the deaf - and - dumb alphabet on the train.
13 Mr. Tennyson went about soliloquizing in deaf - and - dumb language.
14 I haven't found a soul to speak to since I arrived yesterday afternoon except deaf - and - dumb rustics.
15 But that man is crazy, and deaf - and - dumb besides!
16 It was a kind of deaf - and - dumb house.
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