If, indeed, he had not been visited by a sudden deafness, it is difficult to see how he would have handled the situation.

The menace of universal deafness.

You are mistaken in supposing total deafness to be an indispensable qualification in a candidate for the position of prompter to a theatre.

But, perhaps Asclepiades was the inventor of the acousticon, or ear-trumpet, which has been thought a modern discovery; or of the speaking-trumpet, which is a kind of cure for distant deafness.

It is of a good naturd stupid looking old gentleman, whom a footpad has stopt, but for his extreme deafness cannot make him understand what he wants; the unconscious old gentleman is extending his ear-trumpet very complacently, and the fellow is firing a pistol into it to make him hear, but the ball will pierce his skull sooner than the report reach his sensorium.

In our family there is hereditary deafness.

The live silence of the garden gradually entered him, replacing an inner deafness.

We had to depend upon hearing alone, and when a white man pits his ears against those of a native he finds that he has been suffering from partial deafness without being aware of the fact.

But the roof withstood the strain, thanks to a sagacious deafness on the part of the judge.

At the Elysee she was amiable and courteous to everybody and her slight deafness didn't seem to worry her nor make conversation difficult.

In some cases quinine may produce temporary deafness.

"Oh, the game is teaching me resignation to a solitary life," I said with an affectation of disinterest that must have irritated him, for he asked bluntly: "Say, Calvin, how long do you intend to keep up that damned nonsense when everybody knows" This interesting sentence was cut off by Miss Kate Lansdale, who appeared around the corner and paused politely before us, with a look of trained and admirable deafness.

The obstinacy of the Versailles Assembly has become absolute deafness, though we must admit that the freemasons' way of trying to bring about reconciliation was rather singular, somewhat like holding a knife at Monsieur Thiers' throat and crying out, "Peace or your life!" FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 66: Memoir, see Appendix 6.]

The women, indeed, whom he loved, whom he proposed to, always awoke with a shock to the risk of joining for life a man of such explosive whims, of such absorption in his own self and art, of such utter deafness, untidiness, and morose habit of mind.

For caps, by the heat they produce to a part which cannot safely endure an increase of temperature, greatly expose children to catarrhal affections; and many a catarrh has laid the foundation for dulness of hearing, if not of actual deafness.

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.