" "Signor Doge, though deaf to pity, you cannot be deaf to nature.

But she was half blind now, and a good deal deaf, and her sweet old mouth was hard to get at when she kissed you, as she had a motherly way of insisting if she liked you.

She alone spoke to the dead girl as though she were still really alive, as one speaking to the deaf whom only one voice can reach.

Yet one could never be sure by what common unnoticed sights and sounds the dead might fumblingly be striving to reach us in the deaf and dumb language of the dead.

Oh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?" "As I live, sir," cried Campbell, losing his self-possession in disgust at the fool; "you may rhyme your own nonsense as long as you will, but you shan't quote the Adonais about that fellow in my presence.

Mr. Wedgwood's most successful application of his system may be found, as we think, under the words, dim, dumb, deaf, and death.

As with the blind and deaf, you may have an intensification of certain senses denied to me, or even another sense altogether in embryo" "Perhaps," she stopped me, anxious to keep to the point, "you feel it as Mabel does.

Indeed, their preachings and exhortations to her whilst the stake and fire were being arranged continued so long that the rude English soldiers, so often deaf to the beauty of theology, asked whether they were going to be kept waiting there past dinner-time.

Who in future will hear of rest-cures, retirements, retreats, nursings, comforts, and attention to health, without beholding in his mind that monstrous flat-fish, blind and deaf with age, rotting at ease upon the Atlantic slime?

'Duke Radford was not deaf, but they always raised their voices when speaking to him, in order to attract his attention.

Merriwell had a trick of taking up lots of time in a busy way without pitching the ball while the excitement was too high, and his appearance seemed to indicate that he was totally deaf to all the tumult.

The first is the act of March 3, 1819, granting a township of land to the Connecticut asylum for the education of the deaf and dumb; the second, that of April 5, 1826, making a similar grant of land to the Kentucky asylum for teaching the deaf and dumbthe first more than thirty years after the adoption of the Constitution and the second more than a quarter of a century ago.

The first is the act of March 3, 1819, granting a township of land to the Connecticut asylum for the education of the deaf and dumb; the second, that of April 5, 1826, making a similar grant of land to the Kentucky asylum for teaching the deaf and dumbthe first more than thirty years after the adoption of the Constitution and the second more than a quarter of a century ago.

And the suggestion that a school for the mental culture of the deaf and dumb in Connecticut or Kentucky is a national object only shows how loosely this expression has been used when the purpose was to procure appropriations by Congress.

Bob Evers, no doubt, would have turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to them.

Can't marry a woman now-a-days till you're so deaf you have to cock your head like a parrot to hear what she says, and so long-sighted you can't see what she looks like nearer than arm's-length.

"Hail Seshet-kheru (i.e., Orderer of speech), who comest forth from Urit, I have not made myself deaf unto the words of right and truth.

We might conclude he was of Irish extraction; St. Patrick, the old song says, "ne'er shut his eyes to complaints," and Bulwer in his "Instructions to the Deaf and Dumb," tells us they are intended "to bring those who are so born to hear the sound of words with their eyes!"Wadd's Memoirs.

That body was deaf to all entreaties; but the President through Anson Burlingame in 1868 secured some new articles to the old Chinese treaty of 1858.

"Brigham was right," he said, "when he declared that any of us might receive revelations from on high; even the least of usonly we are apt to be deaf to the whispered words until the Lord has scourged us.

I have been deaf a long time, but my ears are at last unstoppedwho is it coming, dear?"

Perhaps you were deaf to the voice, as I have been.

Perhaps you have been deaf to later revelations meant to warn you of the other's falseness.

They are all a little deaf; as they are all a little short-sighted.

What health would there be for the sick, if those indisposed should not obey their physicians in all points, or what safety for the navigators if the sailors should turn a deaf ear to their pilots?

The foreman had been quick to note the keen, intelligent interest and deft-handedness of this strangely alert new employé.

" With deft and loving fingers Gabrielle began to arrange Mrs. Holymead's hair.

Deft and noiseless fingers toiled, and wrought the great Creator's plan, Through countless ages moulding earth for the abode of man.

There's the bell!" "Just lie down and try to rest," advised Betty, smoothing the tangled covers with a deft hand.

Drayton's Fairy Wedding: "Besides he's deft and wondrous airy, And of the noblest of the fairy!

" CHAPTER XVIII THE COUP Mr. Heatherbloom, with fingers deft as a sailor's, secured the prince.

If thou couldst lend me thy deft fingers" "Surely," she answered, smiling up at him.

And when he had worked for a while on the message, touching up the skillfully drawn characters with a pencil the mate to that which Victor had used, he sat back and laughed aloud over the result of his labours, with some appreciation of the glow that warms the cockles of the artist's heart when his deft pen has raised a cheque from tens to thousands, and he reviews a good job well done.

" Frank Bird laughed merrily at the picture drawn by his cousin and then stooping again, with a few deft turns of a heavy cord, helped Andy secure the broken plane so it would not get into trouble during the coming night.

Then she picked up the tray, and, pushing the small table into its accustomed place with a deft twist of the foot, she sailed erect and prim out of the room, and the door primly clicked on her neat-girded waist and flying white ribbons.

Bennington had never before experienced the delight of seeing a young girl about a house, and he enjoyed to the utmost the deft little touches by which is imparted that airily feminine appearance to a room; or, more subtly, the mere spirit of daintiness which breathes always from a woman of the right sort.

Yet when the flu epidemic returned upon us, she stood by, efficient, deft, and gallant, though still imperious, until the day when she clashed her lath-and-tinsel sword of theory against the tempered steel of the Little Red Doctor's experience.

Now the shrewd and able tribe of advertising managers do not pay to any but a master-draughtsman the prices which "J.T."with an arrow transfixing the initialsgets; and Julien was as deft and rapid as he was skillful.

But the novice may learn much by observing the deft methods employed by an expert exhibitor.

With deft, flying fingers she rolled a cigarette, lighted it, and sat down cross-legged.

I brought out my wire clippers and, with a few deft snips, removed a couple of his buttons and put them in my pocket.

That man does right to mar his rest, Let me be deft and debonair, I am content, I do not care.

His throat had then been cut by a deft hand, and he was held so that his blood ran into the grave, thus consummating the sacrifice to the God of Israel.

The avid buyer seized and apparelled herself in them with a deft facility.

He was not painting, now, with full brush and swift sure strokes,as had been his way when building up his picture,but worked with occasional deft touches here and there; drawing back from the canvas often, to study it intently, his eyes glancing swiftly from the picture to the sitter's face and back again to the portrait; then stepping forward quickly, ready brush in hand; to withdraw an instant later for another long and searching study.

" Her deft hands had got the knife, but she tossed it into the work-basket: "Ah, Hilary Kincaid, oft-en we love where we thing we do not, and oft-en thing we love where we do not" He would not hear: "Oh, Flora Valcour!

Because he was silent, deft, and daintier than a horse-boy ought to be, Lapo finally bade him serve Madonna Gemma.

Mary Anne Waller camewhite and speechlessand her deft gentle hands did whatever the village doctor told her.

They looked at first sight clumsy, and even limp; but he was unusually deft and adroit with his fingers, and his touch on plants, in gardening, his tying of stringshe liked doing up parcelswas very quick and delicate.

When it seemed firm enough to support a strong lateral pressure, Glover knotted on to it, in his deft sailor fashion, a strip of the horse hide, and added others to that until he had a cord of some forty feet.