22 examples of dumb as in sentences

"If you persist in picking on me, skipper, I'll ravish you of those magnificent eyebrows with a safety razor, some time when you're asleep, and leave you as dumb as a Wop peddler who's lost both arms.

People are getting so cursedly in earnest now-a-days, that I shall have to bolt to the backwoods to amuse myself in peace; or else sham dumb as the monkeys do, lest folks should find out that I'm rational, and set me to work.

Doctor says if a man wants to succeed, he's got to be as dumb as a noyster in business!" "Pshaw!" said Ann, "Aunty'll tell.

The family had feared that he would tell a good story when he found himself the centre of attraction, but he was as dumb as Peter, and for the same reason.

I stood very quiet and dumb as we did go upward through the miles; and the Millions of the Cities stood about the Great Lift, and there did be a great silence upward and downward through the strange miles; save for the weeping of women in dear sympathy, that did sound far and low and constant.

Their tragedies are as dumb as the tragedies of animal life.

"Dumb as a dog-fish, but can hear like a terrier," said Riggs.

The noise was of their wings, for though the birds were beautiful they were voiceless and dumb as flowers.

Are you deaf and dumb as well as paralyzed?"

They are doubtless still lying upon the dreary height of Murcens; but whether they are there or in a museum, they are as dumb as any other stones, although, had they the power to repeat some of the gossip of the women who once bent over them, they might tell us a good deal that Caesar left out of his Commentaries because he thought it unimportant, but which we should much like to know.

While any of the others were present he was abundantly loquacious, but now he was as dumb as a fishtippling in silence, and answering such questions as I put to him in abrupt monosyllables.

Is he dumb as well as deaf, or because he's deaf?" "Dunno," said Grim.

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

After a while, when my eyes were less red, I went and mingled among the folk in the hall, where there was talk of how my lord had passed through to his chamber an hour ago, very pale and with the wine-fumes all cleared away, it would seem, and had let call the cook, who came back with something under his apron and looking as if he had seen a spirit, but dumb as a stone.

And through the middle of it all, in single filetheir topmasts, yards, and cordage showing above the murk as pale and dumb as skeletons at every flare of the havoc, a white light twinkling at each masthead, a red light at the peak and the stars and stripes there with itFarragut and his

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.

Moor, I speak, I 'm not dumb as you suppose".

"Pray cover yourself," said Dorothy, encouragingly, and Mount did so, dumb as a Matanzas oyster and crimson as a boiled sea-crab.

"He asked me," said Kwei Hsin slowly, "if I slept with my beard under the quilt or outside it, and for the life of me I could not remember, so I stood there dumb as a fish.

"Here am I, able and willing to talkand there you are, as dumb as a mummy, and looking for all the world as if you'd seen a ghost!

"You are right, and I will be as dumb as Plato.

She struck on his head, and straightway he fell down, Lying as dumb as the dead.

22 examples of  dumb as  in sentences