4 Metaphors for dumb

30 Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng I look for streams immortalised in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.

That strange it seeméd how much good she knew; Her feathered fellows all stood hush to hear, Dumb was the wind, the waters silent were.

But for the jingle of the sleigh-bells the ride might have taken place in a dream, for there was no sound of hoofs upon the snow, the runners sighed a little now and again as they glided over an inequality, and all the sheeted hills round about were as dumb as death.

How can Ossep help it if your daughter is as dumb as straw and has a mouth three ells long?

4 Metaphors for  dumb