He used to deafen me with tales of Colonel Randolph, and worshipful Mr. Carew, and Colonel Byrd's new house at Westover, and the rare fashion in cravats that young Mr. Mason showed at the last Surrey horse-racing.

the crows they keep a-comin' an' snippin' up the little creturs jest as soon's they're hatched; an' the old turkey hen't sot under the grapevine she got two hen's eggs under her, 'n' they come out fust, so she quit" Here I bolted out of the door, (a storm at sea did not deafen one like that!)

Deave, deafen.

"Yes, yes, I know you are there," said she; "come, don't deafen us any longer.

Only, as soon as he should wake, he would no doubt deafen everybody.

HOLD STILL!" "Don't need to deafen me!" squalled Luke, indignantly.

And I went then straightway to her, and took her hands from her ears; and I kist her pretty ears very gentle that I not to deafen her.

V. be loud &c adj.; peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, blare, fulminate, roar; resound &c 408. speak up, shout &c (vociferate) 411; bellow &c (cry as an animal) 412. rend the air, rend the skies; fill the air; din in the ear, ring in the ear, thunder in the ear; pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the ears, split the head; deafen, stun; faire le diable a quatre

Deafness N. deafness, hardness of hearing, surdity^; inaudibility, inaudibleness^. V. be deaf &c adj.; have no ear; shut one's ears, stop one's ears, close one's ears; turn a deaf ear to. render deaf, stun, deafen.

In one place they found this river to form a cataract of 200 fathoms in perpendicular fall, making such a noise as was almost sufficient to deafen any person who stood near.

enseñar, to teach. ensordecer, to deafen.

Suddenly a peal of laughter echoes through the cavern'd spaces; In I gaze, a boy is springing from the bosom of the woman To the man, from sire to mother: the caressing and the fondling, All love's foolish playfulnesses, mirthful cry and shout of rapture, Alternating, deafen me.

To deafen our ears to the immediate distresses of the submerged tenth may be less criminal in degree but not in kind.

" "Joel!" "May the Lord deafen my ears to you, darling!" and squaring his shoulders resolutely away from her, he left her on the seat and went in.

Whilst expostulating with the turnkey, I caught a glimpse through a barred window of the interior court, athwart which the chains lay extended, whilst in one railed off even from this the convicts were crowded, marching round and roundprecaution forbade their remaining stilland uttering from time to time such yells and imprecations as might deafen and appal a Mohawk.

I told him to tie up these dogs, and here they are yelp-yelping fit to deafen a person.

"Our opponents," said Lord John Russell, in one of his earliest speeches"our opponents deafen us with their cry of 'Church and King.'

O!" One could not deafen one's ears against that note of human agony.

It is an act; to make you return to life, I must set an example for your imitation, I must deafen you to talk, or to the importance of talk, by showing you, as Bergson does, that the concepts we talk with are made for purposes of practice and not for purposes of insight.

You deafen me with your screaming.

And deep in the grasses grown gory and sodden, The treaders of all men were trampled and trodden; And over them, routed and reeled like cattle, High over the turn of the tide of the battle, High over noises that deafen and cover us, Rang the Deliverer's voice out over us.

In brown outlandish arms to ride, And shout my love to every star With lungs to make a poor maid's name Deafen the iron ears of war.

But it has been lately observed, that fear is received by the ear as well as the eyes; and the Indian war-cry is represented as too dreadful to be endured; as a sound that will force the bravest veteran to drop his weapon, and desert his rank; that will deafen his ear, and chill his breast; that will neither suffer him to hear orders or to feel shame, or retain any sensibility but the dread of death.

The crash of cosmic sound, the blaze of strange lights, the hurricane forces of tempestuous energies sweeping space would blind, deafen, shrivel, annihilate us like so many flies swept into a furnace.

As to the ladieswhy, they deafen you about blessings on their humble efforts, and the widow's mite.