2140 examples of dumb in sentences

An entire park of artillery was encamped with lighted matches around the July Column, that enormous deaf-and-dumb memento of the Bastille.

a fantasy of Ida May dumb flickered before the mulatto.

His audience howled with mirth at this dumb show of the bayonet-fight and of killing four men.

Poetical language is the key to the ideal world of poetry, poetic measure the key to poetical feeling; for the man, to whom the eloquent epithet is dumb and the living image is dead, and in whom the times of dactyls and iambuses awaken no inward echo, Homer and Sophocles have composed in vain.

A certain stony gaze of anthropological interest with which I regarded his frontal bone seemed to strike the poor man dumb, and he took a hurried departure.

The prefect is dumb with rage; the saint observes that gold is found in dross; that the disease of the body is to be less feared than that of the soul; and he developes this idea with a good deal of wit.

Dumb belles-lettres.

I'm not so dumb.

Katharine C. Kelly (W); 7May75; R604780. R604781. Dead and dumb.

And Mr. Coombes, in a starchy, clean collar and his Sunday frock-coat, had sat dumb and wrathful at his own table, while his wife and her guests talked foolishly and undesirably, and laughed aloud.

He was dumb after his apocalypse.

You belong to the Feu-Follet, of course?" Ithuel shook his head in strong disgust and endeavored to make a sound that he intended to represent a dumb man struggling to utter the word "Napoli."

But no bears came; only next morning I was confronted by a half-dressed savage, a veritable Caliban by appearance but quite harmless, an idiot and deaf and dumb.

Jerusalem is lying At his feet o'erthrown Deathly dumb and lifeless staring As an earthly tomb.

Kasbek peered with sinister boding Through the clouds,would fain Count his enemies approaching Found it was in vain: Threw one glance unto the mountains Anguished, overcome, O'er his brow drew close the vapours, Was forever dumb.

The land lies parched in sun,to heaven the air is still, Hushed now upon the harp the golden strings' lost thrill; Aeolian harps our native singers are,and numb Must be their heart, their dying life blood cease to flow, Forever silent be their voice, if longer dumb Their breath be suffocated in this sultry glow!

AT THE GRAVE OF N.M.D. Forsaken am I now anew, Night's sombre wings o'er me descending, As tearless, meditating, dumb Above thy grave's low mound I'm bending.

Sit no longer blind, Lord God, deaf to our prayer and dumb to our dumb suffering.

Sit no longer blind, Lord God, deaf to our prayer and dumb to our dumb suffering.

A conscience, dumb to brooding fears, Companioned hearing deaf to cheers; A body, marshalled by the will, Kept dancing while a heart stood still: And eyes obsessed with vacant stare, Looked over heads to empty air, As though they sought to find therein Redemption for a maiden sin. 'Twas thus, amid force driven grace, We found the lost look on her face;

" And men repent and then forget That heavenly wrath they ever met, The band of Gideon yet will come And strike their tongues of blasphemy dumb.

" Wilkeson and Maltboy nodded their heads, as if stricken dumb with conviction.

The bare notion of such a proceeding on anybody's part is enough to strike one dumb with what would be horror, did not amazement swallow up every other feeling.

His last application is to the Tory clergy, a parcel of "blind, ignorant, dumb, sleeping, greedy, drunken dogs."

If they, in the view of any advantage to themselves, are silent when they ought to cry out day and night, they will fall under the character given by the prophet, of the watchmen in his time: 'They are blind, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark, sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber:

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