| 单词 | dumbness |
| 例句 | “Your brain. It’s too fast. So you stumble on other people’s dumbness. And—you want to kick something.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He always remembered how she said, “Your brain—it’s too fast. So you stumble on other people’s dumbness—like a chair in the dark. And you want to kick something.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But being reminded of the dumbness doesn’t make me feel very good. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a relief to know he wasn’t the only man who ever stumbled on someone’s dumbness—like a chair in the dark—and wanted to kick something. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a comedy that, if you can adjust to its deliberate dumbness, grows on you,” Neil Genzlinger wrote in his review for The New York Times last year. What’s on TV: ‘Trial & Error’ and ‘Hidden’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z After commenting on Russian foreign policy, he said the team’s poor showing “embodied Putinesque buff dumbness.” As the World Cup turns and the ball rolls, authors weigh in 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Of course there’s stupid and there’s stupid, and the real Stooges, like the actors playing them in this movie, were performing dumbness, which pretty much seems the point here. Movie Review: ?The Three Stooges,? From Peter and Bobby Farrelly 2012-04-12T18:27:53Z But Jones found something endearing in the sport, one he calls "wildly American in its weirdness and dumbness." Rolin Jones writes a 'big 'ol dumb comedy' 2013-01-23T14:09:10Z There are numerous half-nude female models, signaling an unrepentant, usually unflattering fixation on female breasts; Dix often seems to have equated women with dumbness, whether brute or weak. Art Review | Otto Dix: At Neue Galerie, a Retrospective of a Deeply German Artist 2010-03-11T23:25:00Z Suffering from insanity, dumbness or a weapon in the heart? Himalayan refuge: Tibetan traditions find a second home in India’s Dharamsala 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Ranging across the decades, he describes his childhood — “the last vestiges of youngness and dumbness” — along with all he’s been told about his parents’ storied past and the horrible truth he learned only later. Review | ‘Bridge of Clay,’ by ‘Book Thief’ author Markus Zusak, was 20 years in the making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Complaining about its dumbness is like being mad at a book for having pages. 2002: When the Rock Went Hollywood and Movie Stars Still Ruled 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Their “blindness and dumbness,” in other words, are not “the price of the gift” but “its essence,” and are even the gift itself. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z This includes a running gag based on a black and gay London police commissioner Sully Kassam, played with deadpan dumbness by Aaron Neill, whose officers seem to have a penchant for killing unarmed black men. 'Great Britain' taps phone-hacking laughs, but not for all 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Tim got the two lilac bushes, one French purple, the other white — an alarming gift, lilacs being so evocative of the depth and dumbness of death’s kingdom that they made Tim cry. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The characters barely merit a mention, unless to be ranked by their dumbness. Forty years later, revisiting the original summer blockbuster: 'Jaws' 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z The dumbness about how this interaction has been popularised is absolutely crazy. Steve McQueen meets Tarana Burke: ‘I want to be part of shifting the narrative’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Robert Hughes, in Time magazine, wrote that Mr. Nauman’s work was “so dumb you can’t guess whether its dumbness is genuine or feigned.” Bruce Nauman, Art Provocateur, Returns. Are You Ready? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Uncomfortable truths on a range of topics, from empty pro-life platitudes, to what makes Bobby Jindal terrible, to the dumbness of “All Lives Matter,” are taken apart and somehow rendered as hilarious and necessary takedowns. Hari Kondabolu: America’s smartest and funniest “mainstream comic” 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z The combination of thematic dumbness and technical competence is certainly better than many of the alternatives, and it may be that dumb fun in this kind of movie presents a special kind of challenge. | 'Battle: Los Angeles': City of Angels Resists Becoming City of Aliens (the Outer-Space Type) 2011-03-11T00:59:25Z As he slashed his way through the ’70s, his commitment to superficial dumbness — in the Stooges and beyond — made rock-and-roll feel so much smarter. Perspective | Can Iggy Pop hear the future? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s a comedy that, if you can adjust to its deliberate dumbness, grows on you. Review: ‘Trial & Error’ Features a Confederacy of Dunces 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Frothy, goofy, blunt and cynical, “Love Island” is the summertime reality bimbo of series America deserves — hot, temporary, and yet cognizant that it embodies every assumption about the genre's dumbness. Are you watching "Love Island"? It's the feel-superior hit of the summer 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z “It suggests dumbness, even the passing of wind/As well as the merciful transience of fame.” Heathcote Williams, Radical British Poet Who Helped Form Anarchist Nation, Dies at 75 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z I spoke to Borowitz for a recent episode of "Salon Talks" about his deeply researched book on the GOP's long arc into paralyzing dumbness. How the GOP weaponized ignorance — and how “smart people acting like dopes” stay in power 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z In marble the distance between the two — between fleetingness and survival, between expressiveness and dumbness — is immense. When I Went Away From the World 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Scripting the ferocious dumbness of the trademark voice-over copy was truly an art form. ‘Open with a funeral, end with a gunshot’: Inside the original ‘Behind the Music’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s a flagrant foul for unnecessary and excessive dumbness. Plaschke: LeBron James deserves to be the NBA's MVP. Here's why he has every right to be mad 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Democrats would do well to brush up on the dumbness of Trump's conspiracy theories on that front because this'll obviously be the "but her emails" of 2020. Biden vs. Bernie: If it's down to a two-man race after Super Tuesday, how do we decide? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The great majority of Super Bowl LIV spots were jaunty and optimistic, lightening the mood with what Matt Ian, the chief creative officer of the McGarryBowen agency in New York, called “some wonderful dumbness.” 2020 Super Bowl Commercials: Funeral for Mr. Peanut, Tears for Google 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z And there’s still more to the dumbness of the conspiracy allegation. Opinion | James Comey: No ‘treason.’ No coup. Just lies — and dumb lies at that. 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z "And there’s still more to the dumbness of the conspiracy allegation," he said, noting that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe authorized a disclosure related to the Clinton Foundation. James Comey defends Strzok, disputes 'treason' accusation in fiery op-ed: 'Dumb lies' 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Those are, of course, two mostly innocuous examples of dumbness. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez garbage disposal video hits Instagram 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Also well known is the inchoate dumbness of Trump's future attacks against each of them. Biden vs. Bernie: If it's down to a two-man race after Super Tuesday, how do we decide? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Rob Stutzman, a prominent Republican strategist in California, called that tweet “nuts,” as well as “frightening” in its dumbness. A dereliction of duty in wildfire tweet 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Williams wrote that Trump’s real name - Drumpf - “suggests dumbness, even the passing of wind/ As well as the merciful transience of fame.” Heathcote Williams: radical poet, playwright and actor, dies aged 75 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z It is not a form of strength; it’s weakness — and dumbness, and egotism. Perspective | If Tom Brady wanted to show real toughness, he’d admit he did something dumb 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The dumbness and xenophobia baked into Trump’s speech weren’t surprising. 'He has already let America down': the reaction to Trump's first speech as president 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Hate, he writes, was given hope, and “abject dumbness” was glamorised as the voice of the outsider. Aaron Sorkin publishes letter urging daughter to fight after Trump win 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He embodied a certain panache, a certain sophisticated dumbness that is the epitome of rock ‘n’ roll. Michael Des Barres releases ‘Key to the Universe’ album as love letter to rock 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z “What’s different is that dumbness is so often a film’s subject, not merely the prime cause of its being made.” What TIME said about the first 'Dumb and Dumber' movie 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z There’s a number of levels of dumbness to the idea but let me start by explaining a byway of European Union taxation law: Dumb Public Policy Suggestion Of The Day; Valenti's Free Tampons For All 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Language is only made to communicate our sentiments, and if we can find no one to receive them, we are reduced to the silence of dumbness, we live but in the solitude of a dungeon. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z A cold dumbness sat on every lip; it was impossible for a time to hear anything but the woman's deep sobbing. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z In the case of the deaf and dumb, as these words are generally understood, dumbness is merely the result of ignorance in the use of the voice, this ignorance being due to the deafness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z My despicable dumbness has been a vile accident—I needn't assure you that it doesn't pretend to the smallest backbone of system or sense. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z But I’m afraid that we get another level of dumbness here: Dumb Public Policy Suggestion Of The Day; Valenti's Free Tampons For All 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Now he could tell all that had happened to him, and how his unbelief in the Angel's promise had been punished by temporary dumbness. "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z If the child messenger from the Sisterhood, and the child-thief in the collapsible box were one, the dumbness was an obstacle. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z The “dumbness” in these four classes is aphasia, due to some brain defect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z All the entertainment which he gets out of life comes to him from his contemplation of the peasant, as himself a rooted part of the earth, translating the dumbness of the fields into humour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z "Devils," then, as indwelling unclean spirits, madly swaying their victims, or producing lunacy, blindness, dumbness, or other infirmities, are beings or influences quite unknown to the Old Testament writers. The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules 2011-12-24T03:08:06.143Z As Zacharias, also, recovering from the state of dumbness which he had suffered on account of unbelief, having been filled with a new spirit, did bless God in a new manner. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z It was difficult to elicit facts, because of his dumbness; but Teano and I agreed that the imp took advantage of his infirmity to bottle up secrets. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Holder notices that dumbness is due to the want of hearing, and therefore speech can be acquired through watching the lips, though he admits the task is a laborious one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z O’Reilly then found himself abruptly stricken with dumbness, as though, with these strange words, a haunting terror came up and breathed against him in the darkness. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z That is why your letter with its formidable enclosure has afflicted me with dumbness. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z But in the Cuban negro of service, dumbness is the complement of darkness. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z After darkness thy leaping sight, After dumbness thy dancing sound, After fainting thy heavenly flight, After sorrow thy pleasure crown'd: O enter the garden of thy delight, Thy solace is found. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z A strange oppressive dumbness, a paralysis of the will, seized her. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z That being is resigned, and aspires to the realm of light; he has neither the believer's lofty scorn, nor the Seer's dumbness; he both listens and replies. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The breath of a breeze from the Morea, which brought the pestilence along with it, robbed Muhzin of his treasure, and cast a cloud over those star-bright eyes, a dumbness upon those speaking lips. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z This was disproved, and he took refuge in a convenient dumbness. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z "I don't think the dumbness required any great effort, as far as you were concerned!" declared Pauline, with sarcastic belligerence. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z "In these last few years—or months rather—I have begun to see things differently," he resumed, with an animation and intensity that contrasted strangely with his former constraint and dumbness. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z In those days—and indeed even to the present day—it was believed that one who was afflicted with dumbness, idiocy, or any natural disease which showed God's hand, was especially His agent. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z Coxcombs, by whose eternal din o'ercome, The wise in just revenge, might wish them dumb, Say on the world your dumbness you impose, And give you organs they deserve to lose. The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; 2011-08-14T02:00:22.973Z In the house is cold reserve; the occupants read when compelled to stay indoors; they grow crabbed and cross and get into a state of habitual dumbness and selfishness. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z Thus Ezekiel's dumbness was a sign to the nation; the sign of God's displeasure and the coming judgment upon Jerusalem. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z He still felt the boyish worshipper, worshipping in dumbness from a distance, one of a group of many others like himself. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Now she perceived his condition of terrible excitement and that his dumbness had not been the apathy she fancied. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Was it loving consideration for her—or presentiment—that struck him with dumbness? Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z And then he went on in a dilatation on the dumbness of Nature during the season’s suspension and torpidity.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z And yet his dumbness was not complete nor constant. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z This dumbness, at last, so worked upon poor Siebenk�s that he caught it himself. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z He writhes, but he could not speak, if flaying alive were to be the penalty of his dumbness. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Some of these spirits cause deafness, others dumbness, &c. Key to the Science of Theology 2011-03-05T03:00:29Z Scarce one word has escaped him since she first laid her hand upon his arm, and now again dumbness, or some hidden feeling, seals his lips. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z This dumbness does not mean that his mouth was silent and did not utter a word, for he prophesied in chapters xxv-xxxii. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z Beyond, the lake lay in one sheet of blankness and of dumbness, unstirred by breeze or breath; fast bound there it lay, with not life enough to reflect the smallest shrub or twig. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z The very world ached with dumbness, ached and waited. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z But she was mortified at the thought of what she considered her “dumbness,” when he asked her to go with him on that coming Saturday night. Betty Lee, Sophomore 2010-12-24T03:00:29.270Z “They dominated the first day of practice with their dumbness,” Auriemma said, smiling. New Role Added to UConn Star?s R?sum?: Leader 2010-10-22T02:18:00Z For contributing to the descent into conspiratorial dumbness of half of the electorate, Gov. Tim Pawlenty endorses "felons for Franken" conspiracy 2010-07-14T19:01:00Z The most cutting line of all: "Now I know, the dumbness doesn't come from just soundbites." Journalists trash Palin speech 2010-06-26T17:27:00Z Reply Report Abuse Posted By: Apolitical @ 01/12/2010 2:45:16 AM There is just one very simple logic in Keynes that the right-wing, in their eternal dumbness, still failed to understand. 2010-01-09T17:44:00Z But, as my voluntary dumbness became more and more oppressive, so also did my affection, my devotion, for Jessy become the more intense. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 The sudden silence was almost the dumbness of dismay; but the hostess sprang nimbly to the rescue with a murmur of "How picturesque!" Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play Fleda made no further allusion to Mrs. Gereth's leaving her; their dumbness, with the elapsing minutes, grew to be in itself a reconstituted bond. The Spoils of Poynton He frowned, as if in fury at his own dumbness. Bye-Ways He was absolutely unintelligible, and stammered almost to dumbness. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The Spaniards complain of the silence of a French diligence; while, to a Frenchman, the occupants of the luxurious corners of an English railroad conveyance, must appear to be afflicted with dumbness. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. "My dumbness is not the subject of this conversation," said Dillon, grimly. Feet Of Clay This dumbness stifled her, and she had often said to herself that the men would never have endured it either if they had not had the prayer-meetings as a safety-valve. Anne And over and above this reason, the very instinct of the credulous is silence; dread is akin to dumbness; the terrified speak little; horror seems always to whisper, "Hush!" Toilers of the Sea "That was rotten luck for you, and just plain dumbness on my part," he finally got out in a groan. Dave Dawson at Casablanca Then he presented himself at court and the king, pitying his youth and his affliction of dumbness, took him into his service. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales The young man watching him with eyes of hatred, saw guilt in that obstinate and mulish dumbness. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June “Did not Pythagoras enjoin silence to his disciples for a period of five years,—absolute silence, muteness, dumbness?” Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 As soon as he began to speak, however, he was smitten with dumbness, he lacked words, and sat down. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 When she had stared at him for a little longer, in an aggravating dumbness, she dropped down on her front feet, and lumbered gently away. Dusty Star A short time later he was in bed, packed in warm blankets and hot-water bags, but through it all he maintained that distressing dumbness. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Then the coldness and dumbness and wretched inertness that had bound him, body and soul, were gone. Prisoners of Conscience Dear me, Peggy, I didn’t mean to reduce you to absolute dumbness. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted She was very pale, and her eyes were large with anxiety as she asked her question of the two men, whom her appearance had struck with dumbness. Under False Pretences A Novel The old angry, purposeless tears beset her and she felt that terrible dumbness settling over her. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon But to all these domesticities the three maintained an absolute dumbness. The Monster and Other Stories Her pallor, her slow movements, her absolute dumbness, roused in Sinclair an angry discomfort. Prisoners of Conscience It was as though she were afflicted with dumbness. Brooke's Daughter A Novel She would do all and everything that Dino required from her, if only she could conquer this terrible helplessness of feeling, this dumbness of tongue which had come over her. Under False Pretences A Novel It came after a studied silence, a dumbness of set purpose. When Ghost Meets Ghost Brooke was able to be lively, without any affectation of too extravagant gayety, and Talbot was no longer crushed into dumbness. A Castle in Spain A Novel But no one dared to open his mouth, even those who had been the most eager to narrate wild tales before, seemed stricken with dumbness now. Fairy Tales from the German Forests The most crushing seizure of despair descended on his soul; and, struck into abject dumbness, he stared upon the driver. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) He himself was more boisterous than usual, as if to cover up the dumbness of his wife. Clark's Field Before she had released him, Ernest had hold of his hand and was trying to make up by the vigor of his hand shake for the embarrassing dumbness which had seized him. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John Spiritual dumbness is the incapacity for the praise of God which, in the time when salvation is withheld, so easily creeps in, and which is removed by the bestowal of salvation. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 Sometimes he woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, having dreamed that he stood on the platform in forgetful dumbness, every eye fixed upon him. Dreamers of the Ghetto I'm devilish glad you've come, Steve, for hang me if I'm not tired to death trying to talk to this crone, who, to the charms of old age and ugliness, adds that of dumbness. Hidden Hand In addition to the born deaf, measles, bronchitis, typhus, scarletina, and other diseases are the causes of deafness, and consequently dumbness. Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb Not the dumbness which is practising the old device of— Reculer pour mieux sauter, 34 but a genuine silence of humility before the mysteries of nature. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war She had thought the world stood always ready to accept self-confessed guilt, and now her throat worked spasmodically until at last her dumbness was conquered. The Roof Tree His state was worse than dumbness, for the dumb have resigned hope of conversation. Tatterdemalion So deafness always carries dumbness along with it when that deafness is from birth, or contracted in early childhood. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 Grace has, after a patient life, passed away into that land where deafness and dumbness is for ever unknown. Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb "I knew the little rascal was after no good; and to pretend dumbness too!" The Buccaneer A Tale Witness Number One was Sim Squires, and as though his tongue had been stricken with sudden dumbness and his limbs with paralysis, he hung back when he had been called. The Roof Tree O heart, shalt thou not once be strong to go Where all sweet throats are calling, once be brave To slake with deed thy dumbness? Gloucester Moors and Other Poems "You!" re-echoed Piers Minor, and immediately a horrible dumbness fell upon him. The Doomsman Then never seek to learn wherefore, when at the still tender age of fifteen, I resolved upon consummating so dreadful a sacrifice as to affect dumbness. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf His first inquiries were concerning the boy who had contrived to steal a passage on board the Fire-fly from France to England, and who had pretended dumbness. The Buccaneer A Tale He was smitten with dumbness which was to continue until the promise of the angel had been realized. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition Deafness, dumbness, short-sightedness, tertiary or quaternary ague, gout, epilepsy, polyp, varicose veins, a breath indicating an internal malady, sterility among the women—such were the grounds accepted for complete abrogation of the contract. The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death Perhaps she herself had been sufficient reason for his dumbness. The Place of Honeymoons It would have been easy for me to simulate dumbness again; and you would have believed that the bewilderment of the dread scene had misled you. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf It seemed as though they had been smitten with sudden dumbness. The Hero of Garside School Orchestras all around the world would be created,—would float language around the dumbness in it. The Lost Art of Reading His disciples, however, did not refrain from speech all their lives, nor did their master impose dumbness on all for a like space of time. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura She was dumb before him, and her dumbness cut Jane to the heart. The Creators A Comedy She was to go into his cerebellum and take out a tumor which had caused deafness, dumbness, and blindness. Tutors' Lane For the sake of his hoard he had taken on himself the dumbness and deafness of a fish. The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths When I entered my office on Friday morning March 10, 1865, Captain Webb, my clerk, was trying to obtain from Paine some part of his pedigree, but was baffled by the prisoner's dumbness. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After The two men struggled valiantly with the conversation, but the twins sat stricken to shamed dumbness: no topic could thrive in the face of their mute rigidity. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Once, after some speech of hers, there had followed an outburst of fury on Tanqueray's part and on Rose's a long period of dumbness. The Creators A Comedy But these words are insufficient to describe it; forgetfulness, deafness, dumbness, fainting—such is the condition of the pilgrim in this valley. Mystics and Saints of Islam "I beg your pardon, Lady Louisa," he said, "but before this singular dumbness overtook us all, you were saying?" The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance It is better than dead-level dumbness—better than the subjection of the peasantry of Europe. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators And Tom Travis, in the agony of it, stood, sword in hand, stricken in dumbness and doubt. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills He was softened by its reminder of her submissive dumbness, by its implication that there were, after all, so many things she might have said and hadn't. The Creators A Comedy Slumber fell upon me like a great stone that strikes a man down to dumbness, to unconsciousness. The Desert Drum 1905 The gentle dumbness which often held her did not trouble him. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance How can one speak, where there is a dumbness on one's mouth? Look! We Have Come Through! We have just seen that "dumbness" frequently follows upon deafness, or that it is usually believed to be an effect of deafness. The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States "It is true I wrote you," she continued with a hauteur which would have reduced a less buoyant nature to instant dumbness. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Among them are dumbness, blindness, barrenness, possession, scrofula, dyspepsia, a broken leg, deformities of limbs, lameness, gout, diseases of the eyes, cataract, ulcer, and dropsy. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing The question must inevitably be answered one day; and Katherine, as had been said, was moved just now, dumbness of long habit somewhat melted. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Of course, it would be nice curing—curing, as they say—stupidity, plain dumbness, as they call such things—curing stupidity as easily as I can cure small ills. Pagan Passions Deafness and dumbness are, physically, two essentially different things. The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Within a week the innovations had reduced him to a condition of disapproving dumbness. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Molly says, at length awakening to the fact of her lover's dumbness. Molly Bawn He remembered how he had been shocked to dumbness years before when someone in the neighborhood had died. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles How now, fair nymph of this lovely grotto—art thou spellbound and struck with dumbness by the wicked enchanter whom men term Fear? The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III By the naked arm he was clutching an age-wrinkled black who grinned in fear and made signs of dumbness. A Son Of The Sun The seemingly inevitable clash was averted by Susan Fitzgerald, who rose and addressed the chair, a feat of such reckless daring as to reduce the assembly to instant dumbness. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale It was the dumbness—the choking dumbness of that emotion which made it so terrible. Agatha's Husband A Novel There it seemed sheer horror; but often when wounded they look towards one with a world of pitiful appeal for relief; in their dumbness loud-voicedly reproachful against the horrors of war. Impressions of a War Correspondent Barbara tries to get up a conversation with Mr. Courtenay, but that person, never brilliant at any time, seems now stricken with dumbness. April's Lady A Novel For myself I had no fear as long as I could continue to feign dumbness, as my character was easily kept up. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman An hour later Richmond was stricken into a momentary dumbness, soon followed by the chattering of many voices. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond Her rage at being made ridiculous, her sense of outrage that a perfectionist like herself should suffer punishment, added to her knowledge of the flight of time on school mornings, strangled her into dumbness. The Madigans Conversation would have dragged pitifully if it had not been for Aunt Maria’s efforts, for the visitors seemed smitten with dumbness, and beneath no the fire of their glances Darsie’s embarrassment increased rather than diminished. A College Girl He is introduced to Lucinde, who pretends to be dumb, but, being a shrewd man, he soon finds out that the dumbness is only a pretence, and takes with him Léandre as an apothecary. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 But the utter dumbness that followed this question was so impressive that Ruth could almost hear her own heart beat. Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier In the house is cold reserve; the occupants read when compelled to stay in doors; they grow crabbed and cross and get into a state of habitual dumbness and selfishness. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep Doubtless the word was originally employed to express a larger idea than that of dumbness, and implied the lack of power in animals to communicate successfully with man by sound or language. The Human Side of Animals They were stricken with dumbness also, if you were to trust the evidence of your senses, but had certainly ears, and could drink in every word you said. A College Girl For voluntary dumbness requires great strength of will, which is hardly to be attributed to the child. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. Harriet, discreet almost to dumbness though she was, was capable of receiving a hint conveyed by her master's expressive eyebrows. The Way of Ambition When she caught his eye she nodded as though acknowledging the salutation of a passerby, her dumbness an instinctive hoarding of physical force. The Emigrant Trail And now that her mouth was opened, and that she might venture to speak, she told the King the reason of her dumbness, and why she had never laughed. Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm Don't forget that the race is only struggling out of its dumbness, and that it is only in moments of inspiration that we get out a sentence. Gilbert Keith Chesterton In absolute dumbness Stanton and Cornelia sat listening until the horrid sound died away. Molly Make-Believe It was folly to be wise, to be sensitive, to respond too quickly, to see too clearly; and ignorance, dumbness of soul, was also fatal. The Hidden Places Had her words been his first intimation they might have shocked him into stupefied dumbness and made him seem the hero who meets his fate with closed lips. The Emigrant Trail The hundred and one things he had wanted to ask, died on his lips in a dumbness of gladness. The Freebooters of the Wilderness To-day shall I stand mute at my trial, but my dumbness shall drown out the clamor of my accusers. Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play He knew the blackness which is death, the momentary throe of entering it, the shock, the sense of chill, the dumbness. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories As I finished he called to her: 'I always knew you were lovely, Rica, but this is a real tribute—the dumbness of admiration!' McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 "I can't eat," she said, and fell back to her fire-gazing, slipping away from him into the forbidding dumbness of her thoughts. The Emigrant Trail I went down slowly, reluctantly, the melancholy charm of the place catching at my dress as I walked, like the supplicating fingers of a ghost condemned to dumbness. The Motor Maid His dumbness will save the colonies from more than thou dreamest of. Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play Often she makes them odious with conceit or deformity or dumbness or garrulity. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy What wonderful tales of sorrow and anguish could these rocks give, if they were not compelled to eternal dumbness! Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government They are proof against the alleged dumbness of the ages just preceding Dante's. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 "At least our friend Tex does not seem to be stricken with dumbness," Endicott smiled as the words of the buffalo skinner's song broke forth anew. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country Nick, among his other accomplishments, had a faculty for dumbness and said nothing; but a smile which approached a grin formed on his face as he stood eyeing quizzically first one and then the other. The Girl of the Golden West Bates could have cursed his dumbness; he would fain have asked where she had gone. What Necessity Knows The nuns at this were petrified into dumbness. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century I thank you for it with ever so much dumbness. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 The instant that they saw the bride they had fallen into dumbness. The Vehement Flame She felt that the solemn, world-old stone was in some way hostile to her, and attributed her dumbness to its influence. A Loose End and Other Stories But God sent an angel who caught hold of the serpent and loosed them, and smote the serpent with dumbness, so that thereafter it could only hiss. Old Testament Legends being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal books of the old testament Miss Sally Ruth is nothing if not generous, but there are times when one could wish upon her the affliction of dumbness. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Ah, how you speak, with that pretension, too, to dumbness! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 He distinguished between forms of disease due to possession and the same diseases when dissociated from it, as, for example, cases of dumbness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII While she waited, overcome by a dumbness which seemed to invade her from head to foot, her eyes clung to that calla lily as if it were her one connection with reality. One Man in His Time The Lord made him, and there must be some reason for him; but even the Lord must sometimes get worn out at his dumbness. Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" He knew so well, how many thousands of times had he seen, that same look of questioning, pitiful in its dumbness. The Imaginary Marriage A piercing note of command, however, from a clarinet caused a devastating dumbness to fall suddenly on every instrument except the piano, which continued self-consciously alone. Living Alone The punishment of dumb lips is often dumbness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII The Baron and his wife disputed volubly about the date of one of Paolo's grand dinners in Paris; Gaetà yawned, and I was stricken with dumbness. The Princess Passes Many a visitor to the country districts must have marked the dumbness of the women folk. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Then, too, in moments of intense feeling she had always a sensation of dumbness. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Charm me some rare anointment I may trust Against her query, searching like a barb The dumbness of a heart unreconciled. The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows Only dumbness can give to love the full eloquence of the eyes; only deafness can impress love's yearnings on the movements of neck and face. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) The criticism she had always silenced came forward and spoke boldly; and she recognized the impossibility of a whole-hearted intimacy where a need for enforced dumbness existed. A Daughter of To-Day Standing beside the little typewriter-table, exactly where her caller had surprised her, she had watched with a mortifying dumbness the second meeting between the pleasure-dog and the little Doctor that was. Queed What prompted it, and whence it came, were merely mysteries, which the dumbness of dogs must forever sustain. Flames She dropped a little curtsey to Mrs. Penfold, in whom the excitement of this sudden appearance of Melrose's daughter had produced sheer and simple dumbness. The Mating of Lydia And I knew that both dumbness and stillness were proper. Widdershins For a moment there was silence between them—a natural silence, and no dumbness. A Daughter of To-Day What dumbness had seized his tongue just now he could not imagine. Queed Sympathy was in that pretty room, complete human sympathy, and a sympathy that sprang from their vitality, avoiding the dusky dumbness of the phlegmatic. Flames The Burman shut his mouth tightly and exhibited signs of a return to his former condition of dumbness that worked upon the assistant like gall. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery There is a wild Way also - when his dumbness is of death. Household Gods Cally Heth, indeed, stood in a dumbness which she seemed powerless to break. V. V.'s Eyes Approaching the hole and applying his eye to it, Jim beheld a picture that startled him into utter dumbness. Romance of California Life Silently the tension of Anderson's inner being gave way; he was conscious of a passionate acceptance of the mere stillness and dumbness of death. Lady Merton, Colonist As for him, he was seized with overpowering dumbness and chill. Marcella She dwelt on the long days of dumbness, and her constant sense that he wished--in vain--to communicate something to her. The Testing of Diana Mallory The old Michel came twice daily, but this strange being had quite plainly been frightened into dumbness, and there was nothing to be got out of him. Jason It was their very dumbness that made them seem so wonderful. Evelyn Innes There was great gravity, together with a certain pomp and dumbness, and these things were supposed to be natural to the inhabitants and to give them joy. Emerson and Other Essays I call her by her name, in a low voice, so as to draw her out of the dumbness into which she is falling. Light Indeed, I should have shrieked the words aloud, but for a providential dumbness that fell upon me. Spanish Doubloons It was a joy that would be unclouded by the God-sent dumbness which was at once a punishment for his lack of immediate faith and a sign of the faithfulness of God. Our Lady Saint Mary It was the dumbness of these women—they could only speak in prayer—it was that that overcame her. Evelyn Innes This bright and rosy world, enriched by nature and art, was so new, its values were so different, that at first she was dazed into dumbness by it. The Purple Heights There was an inexplicable dumbness in the cold. The Man Who Laughs Fenwick nodded, and followed Cuningham back to the studio, where Lord Findon was now examining Watson's picture with no assistance whatever from the artist, who seemed to have been struck with dumbness. Fenwick's Career I asked in a trembling voice, afraid that having delivered herself once, she might lapse into dumbness. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections And I am never one for brooding with private dumbness over my woes. Nancy Either her powers of articulation had disappeared in that region of universal dumbness, or the dead atmosphere was waveless, and could vibrate to no sound. Round the Block She is driven to extremes by her dumbness. Vandemark's Folly In this strait the idea suddenly crossed his mind that his greatest security would be in feigning dumbness. The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet To the dumbness of the gesture One might interpret. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 More and more weird waxed the grisly dumbness of five-sided Morgan and the spectral silence of the oncoming league-long fleet. Kincaid's Battery Men never speak of delicious blindness, of delicious dumbness, of delicious deafness, of delicious paralysis; and death is all these disasters in one, all these disasters without hope. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Something had taken place which struck her with a sort of dumbness; and I really believe she could not then have spoken the name Gowdy if she had tried. Vandemark's Folly The loveliness of Moorish women has been heralded to the world; it is not strange that this maid, renowned even among her own people, should have struck the rustic priest to dumbness. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories It remains to be seen whether my pity for her dumbness, or some servile tendency toward fellowship in myself, will result in any further lesson. The Purple Cloud The spirit of dumbness seemed to have smitten the assembly. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Both he and Hubbard were attached to Bell primarily by sentiment, as Bell had removed the blight of dumbness from Sanders's little son, and was soon to marry Hubbard's daughter. The History of the Telephone But the wife maintained a sullen dumbness, her eyes turned away from him; and Willoughby retired, shaking his head. Stories from Everybody's Magazine If I do ask, How God can dumbness keep While Sin creeps grinning through His house of Time, Stabbing His saintliest children in their sleep, And staining holy walls with clots of crime? The Poems of Sidney Lanier The Hon. Slote is shocked almost to dumbness to discover that the Capital does not know that he is on earth. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Her spirit raged within her at the dumbness, the paralysis that had fallen upon her. Ann Veronica, a modern love story "I guess you're feeling pretty tired and hungry," Matthew ventured to say at last, accounting for her long visitation of dumbness with the only reason he could think of. Anne of Green Gables Did he see? could he feel through the faintness, the numbness, While linger'd the spirit half-loosed from the clay, Dumb eyes seeking his in their piteous dumbness, Dumb quivering nostrils, too stricken to neigh? Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Since you, rare friend! have tied my living tongue With thanks more large than man e'er said or sung, So let the dumbness of this image be My eloquence, and still interpret me. The Poems of Sidney Lanier Mrs. Bread, however, relapsed again into troubled dumbness, and all Newman could do was to fold his arms and wait. The American He submitted, and did not even offer to put out his arm this time, but looked in piteous dumbness at her for a long time. The Damnation of Theron Ware "I was literally amazed to dumbness," declared Patience. Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus Here he was smitten with a dumbness, and sat, aghast at the enormity of his blunder, entreating her forgiveness with eyes that, very likely, pleaded his cause more eloquently than he guessed. The Black Bag The scarlet berries in the hedge stood out Like revelations, but the tongue unknown; Even in the brooks a joy was quick; the trout Rushed in a dumbness dumb to me alone. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 We offered consolation by voicing for his dumbness his undoubted intention to avoid all future porcupines. The Forest She looked imploringly at Diana; but Diana would not come to the rescue; and this morning Mr. Hawkehurst seemed as a man struck with sudden dumbness. Birds of Prey How it was I cannot tell, but the moment her father saw her she looked up, and the spell of her dumbness broke. Stephen Archer and Other Tales Steal out, appear, Dim, ghostly Night, with dumbness us entrancing! Rampolli We cannot tell whether her silence proceeds from pride, sorrow, stupidity, or dumbness; and this is all we can inform your majesty.' Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights She remained alone upon the stage in a sort of horror of dumbness, a horror of inaction. The Woman with the Fan The whole family share a sort of animal dumbness; if I ask them a question, I may or may not get half a reply: "Mm-no, mm-yes." Look Back on Happiness He also seemed to be smitten with dumbness, and thus the two of them remained a while. The Ghost Kings For you are to conceive that he, knowing no more of her deafness than dumbness, was ignorant of both. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 But his dumbness was not so bitterly ironical as it was popularly supposed to be. Henrik Ibsen Her parents had never understood all the longings and aspirations that had filled her fermenting years, and now she could not comprehend the dumbness of her child. Together These were madness, melancholy, sometimes dumbness, sometimes fits and convulsions; the man was dominated by an alien power; there was a strange, awful double consciousness; 'We are many,' 'My name is Legion.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark So, at last, will men be reduced to stony dumbness, when they discover that an Eye which can see deeper than Elisha's has been gazing on all their secret sins. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII For now, since my voice has ceased, I feel the night throbbing with thoughts that gaze in awe at the abyss of their dumbness. The Fugitive The only visible means of arriving at them, which her deafness and dumbness permitted her to use, consisted simply in examination of a stranger's manner, expression, and play of features at a first interview. Hide and Seek It was true that Falkner developed chronic dumbness in Larry's conversational presence. Together She had regained her old look of dumbness. Snow-Blind The daring anger within her was turned into the rage of dumbness. Daniel Deronda Burst, like a rebellion of light, through the night's vigil, through the lake's dark dumbness, through the dungeon under the dust, proclaiming freedom to the shackled seeds! The Fugitive Shall the clear, laughing tones be hushed always? the young, tender life be for ever a speechless thing, shut up in dumbness from the free world of voices? Hide and Seek Mr. Carmyle relapsed into an offended dumbness, which lasted till the waiter had brought the coffee. The Adventures of Sally In the same anxious dumbness they watched Garth make ready for his trip. Snow-Blind He had the triumphant certainty that he could aggravate the jealousy and yet smite it with a more absolute dumbness. Daniel Deronda The dumbness, e.g., with which Ezekiel was afflicted for a period, iii. Introduction to the Old Testament How could they have condemned the Reverend George Burroughs on the ground that he had exhibited remarkable physical strength, and that the witnesses against him had pretended dumbness? The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 It was Dickie's dumbness, as he leaned against the door, looking at her, that sobered her at last. Hidden Creek Since Lady Maulevrier had been lying upstairs—the voice which had once ruled over the house muffled almost to dumbness—the monotony of life at Fellside had seemed all the more oppressive. Phantom Fortune, a Novel Its brevity pointed the previous dumbness of the speaker: "Deep enough!" The Abandoned Room The dumbness of unutterable astonishment fell on the whole party at these words; but in another second, rallying from the shock; they knelt around the seemingly lifeless woman, trying to arouse her. Between Whiles And at the passion of her dumbness she cried out, with arms stretched wide apart, "O Woman, thou art sister of mine!" Children of the Frost And truly you to be with me in understanding; for you too, mayhap, to have suffered thiswise of dumbness; even if that it hath not been so great. The Night Land It is real; but if you go Careless to it, as to dance, You'll see nothing for your glance; Blankness, deafness, blindness, dumbness, Soon will stare you to a numbness. A Hidden Life and Other Poems Since that time, the aged couple, who live south of Jerusalem, have indeed been blessed with a child, the father's dumbness disappearing with its birth and the priest again praising the Lord of his people. The Wolf's Long Howl Only the sharp call of a discordant trumpet broke the solitude and dumbness of the hills. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 The man was evidently a quiet sort of fellow, who, by long Caudling, had subdued—whole volcanos into dumbness within him. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 And yet this inaction—this dumbness—lasted but a very few seconds. Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Deafness prevailed to an alarming extent, dumbness was by no means unknown. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore It's a sort of dumbness of the soul. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe I took no account of his deafness and dumbness; the one thing I saw was his mastership over a single subject. More Pages from a Journal There was something cruel in the absolute dumbness of the night. Victory An Island Tale He had much to say, and thus far had been forced to dumbness. Miss Gibbie Gault No disease comes amiss to it; it cures blindness, deadness, deafness, dumbness. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 He sat in utter dumbness, shyer than a boy, but happier than a singing star!… A Prisoner in Fairyland For the most part a dumbness, a silence prevailed. The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw They conceived that Fenella's deafness and dumbness were only towards those of this world, and that she had been heard talking, and singing, and laughing most elvishly, with the invisibles of her own race. Peveril of the Peak They prayed, but their worship was only The wonder at nights and at days, As still as the lips of the lonely Though burning with dumbness of praise. AE in the Irish Theosophist Ye need not think Lambert Meredith is to be frightened into dumbness. Janice Meredith And how strangely little her dumbness seemed to matter after all! Kilmeny of the Orchard Zia could not speak, being stricken with fear and the dumbness of bewilderment. The Little Hunchback Zia The great thing, perhaps, was to speak of it while still they could give themselves leave; a day would arrive, they acknowledged with averted eyes, when dumbness would be more becoming. The Imperialist The Hessians suffered severely by their self-imposed dumbness, but they suffered like Stoics. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns “Most certainly not,” spoke up the squire, recovering from the dumbness into which the rapid occurrences of the last three minutes had reduced him. Janice Meredith Well, then." she said almost triumphantly, "since neither that nor her dumbness seems to be any drawback in your eyes I don't see why you should not have the chance you want. Kilmeny of the Orchard In between, however, came sudden, sinister attacks of dumbness. Angel Island But the boy who develops into a fine man is often ungainly, shy, awkward, silent in early life, acutely sensitive, and taking refuge in bluntness or dumbness. The Upton Letters They could have braced themselves to encounter violence, but this immobility and dumbness tormented them. In the Wilderness Only when Mr. Meredith had expressed and re-expressed all that was in him to say did the young fellow give evidence that his dumbness proceeded from policy. Janice Meredith Yet she did not seem sensitive about her dumbness and made frequent casual references to it in her written remarks. Kilmeny of the Orchard But he was handicapped into a state of dumbness by the fact that he needed both arms to balance a tray of wine and sandwiches on his head. Europe Revised He shrank with a painful dumbness from displaying his secret wound. Watersprings Not by action, but by inertia!—dumbness—lack of protest,—lack of courage! The Master-Christian Desire became the focus of all eyes and a watchful dumbness settled down upon them like a pall. The Window-Gazer And if it is true that her mother's willful silence caused Kilmeny's dumbness, I fear, as you say, that we cannot help her. Kilmeny of the Orchard To young Hope he seemed like a sacred legacy from poor Tam, and a perplexing one, such as he could hardly leave in his dumbness to take the chances of life among sailors. A Modern Telemachus Without the keynote there can be no music,—there is dumbness where there should be sound,—there is discord where there should be harmony. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance At this, Madame Patoux started from her stricken condition of horrified dumbness into speech and action. The Master-Christian I'll have none of this coacted, unnatural dumbness in my house, in a family where I govern. Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman And what added to her dumbness was the fact that she was infinitely touched by Garth's confession; and when Jane was deeply moved speech always became difficult. The Rosary Domini had desired violence, and had been conveyed into a dumbness of mystery, that fell upon her turmoil of spirit like a blow. The Garden of Allah Jim now played opposite her, and laughed over his "dumbness" at the game. Missy When Christ cast out the devil of dumbness, "it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake." Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures In his thoughts of her he fell into a great spiritual dumbness. The Blazed Trail Still the silence hung; it was as though the tongues of men were smitten with dumbness. The Virgin of the Sun She said to herself that this brooding night, with its dumbness, its heat, its vaporous mystery, was affecting her spirit. A Spirit in Prison Here Bob’s letter crackled warningly in his waistcoat pocket as he laid his hand asseveratingly upon his breast, and he became suddenly scaled up to dumbness and gloom as before. The Trumpet-Major It was the house of darkness, the house of dumbness, the house of suffocation. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 But her faculty for dumbness was stronger than his, and—he had to speak first. The Patrician Then a strange dumbness fell upon me like a spell or dead Upanqui's curse, so that I could not speak. The Virgin of the Sun This question, focusing his doubts, broke down the Squire's dumbness. The Country House He opened his mouth to answer, indeed, but a dumbness sealed his lips. Morning Star That man’s dumbness is wonderful to listen to.” Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school I often wonder how God can dumbness keep While Sin creeps grinning through His house of Time. The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy And in his eyes was that which triumphed, not over dumbness, but over speech. Sir Gibbie In that case the fundamental difference would have had to be shown by their dumbness, and many of them, poor things, were dumb enough without that provision. Some Short Stories [by Henry James] We promised to bear this in mind, and again the ride continued in dogged dumbness, until it was again broken by George. Three Men on the Bummel It seemed to Aline that on this particular afternoon a strange dumbness had descended on her. Something New But now her stillness, her—her dumbness, had got on the unfortunate man's nerves. The Lodger As to his friends, those who had known him the longest minded his dumbness the least. Sir Gibbie His happiness appears in his moody and charming face, his ambition in his dumbness, and the hopes of his life to come in ungainly bearing. The Children And then! what endless other troubles, monsieur! her teeth fell out; she became deaf, then dumb; and then, after six months of absolute dumbness, utter deafness, speech and hearing have returned to her! The Brotherhood of Consolation Rodolphe supposed that the girl's dumbness must be a necessary deception. Albert Savarus At one thought of Sir Willoughby, her tongue made ready, and feminine craft was alert to prompt it; but to her father she could imagine herself opposing only dumbness and obstinacy. The Egoist Receiving no answer but one of the child's betwitching smiles, she stood for a moment regarding him, not in mere silence, but with a look of dumbness. Sir Gibbie The duel between the judge and the criminal is all the more appalling because justice has on its side the dumbness of blank walls and the incorruptible coldness of its agents. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life How now, fair Nymph of this lovely grotto, art thou spell-bound and struck with dumbness by the charms of the wicked enchanter whom men term Fear? Kenilworth This obvious disagreement between the Italian lady's rank and her manners was a fresh puzzle to Rodolphe, who suspected some further trick like Gina's assumed dumbness. Albert Savarus She obstinately declined to learn the deaf and dumb alphabet—on the ground that dumbness was not associated with deafness in her case. Man and Wife How this grace Speaks his own standing! what a mental power This eye shoots forth! how big imagination Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture One might interpret. Timon of Athens See, see, your silence, Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws My very soul of counsel. Troilus and Cressida The king's troops were partly stricken with blindness partly with dumbness. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2 Madame Roland had no dumbness of the spirit, as history, prompted by her own musical voice, presents her to a world well prepared to do her justice. Essays Medical men, consulted about her case discovered certain physiological anomalies in it which led them to suspect the woman of feigning dumbness, for some reason best known to herself. Man and Wife The dumbness that had fallen from his daughter seemed to have dropped upon him. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable And what aesthetic deafness, dumbness and blindness thus open the way for, vanity instantly reinforces. In Defense of Women Sometimes we remember kisses, Remember the dear heart-leap when they came: Not always, but sometimes we remember The kindness, the dumbness, the good flame Of laughter and farewell. The Congo and Other Poems |
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