"Her grandmarm was in town," said she, "but if she was in the room she must have been asleep, or dreadful deaf, for I pounded with all my might.

"Mr. Ambassador," was the reply of the noble old man, "I never receive money; but have the goodness to say to her Majesty, that, if my labors have seemed to her worthy of any consideration, I ask, as an especial favor, that she will send to me from her dominions some ignorant deaf and dumb child, that I may instruct him.

"So I was going to, but the minister made me change, as he's a little deaf on one side, and he wanted to ask me some questions about the Fiji Islanders.

But by a woeful chance, one of your primitive animalsa deaf, blind, sexless clot of jellythen had its body pierced by a drop of sea-water thicker than usual, and it found that this way of feeding was quicker than simple respiration.

Auditus is stark deaf, and wonders why men speak so softly that he cannot hear them.

The deaf and dumb, though uninstructed and utterly ignorant of language, can think; and can, by rude signs of their own inventing, manifest a similar division, corresponding to the individuality of things.

A wretched deaf being like me!