" We drew near to the scaffold where the candidates stood, and our ears were deafened with the mingled shouts and exclamations of praise and reproach.

A puff of dense white smoke, a report which was almost deafening to those of us standing near by rang out.

"How now," quoth he, "is thine ear still too deaf to hear me speak?" "Mine ears would be deafened in death ere they would cease to hear Your Majesty's voice," said Robin.

'Tis like a market-fair; The hubbub rises deafening on the air: The children spend their honest money there; The knaves prowl out like foxes from a lair.

Arriving again at the hotel, the chatter of the women over some new arrivals was as deafening as ever.

A man's ear may be reverent enough: but you must forgive its not being sensitive while it is recovering from that most deafening of plagues, a tropic cold in the head.

The instrumentalists, men or women, made sharp rattles whizz, noisy drums sound or shudder under small sticks terminated by a caoutchouc ball, "marimehas," kinds of dulcimers formed of two rows of gourds of various dimensionsthe whole very deafening for any one who does not possess a pair of African ears.

The noise and the tumult of the mob was even more deafening near the house of Pilate.