Meanings of dumb alphabet in English

A curious contortion of the deaf-and- dumb alphabet was used among the

I cannot hear and I do not understand the deaf and dumb alphabet.

She is learning the deaf-and- dumb alphabet in order the better to communicate with me.

Neither of us understood the deaf and dumb alphabet, but the alphabet was hardly necessary.

He spoke by means of the dog's dumb alphabet in a way that defies description.

I practised the deaf-and- dumb alphabet on the train.

It was der deaf-and- dumb alphabet all gomplete.

He understands the deaf-and- dumb alphabet! they shouted.

I do not care a dump whether they know the alphabet, so long as they know the dumb alphabet.

He understands the deaf-and- dumb alphabet!

Pillars, palaces, cathedrals, temples, pyramids, are an enormous dumb alphabet: as if some giant held up his fingers of stone.

You knew he was not deaf, while we wrote our messages to him and I have been learning the deaf-and- dumb alphabet!

She obstinately declined to learn the deaf and dumb alphabet-onthe ground that dumbness was not associated with deafness in her case.

She smiled approval and slowly worked out a "perfect" in the deaf-and- dumb alphabet before she took the proffered pencil and wrote:

And on her begging to be shown the dumb alphabet, as the two sisters crossed fingers, they became, for one evening, almost intimate.

Your face beats Venus's hollow, continued Zack, communicating this bluntly sincere compliment to Madonna by the signs of the deaf and dumb alphabet.