Perhaps he had employed her to teach some poor deaf and dumb child, like little Ida.

When it is used as a sole means of educating the deaf as a class its inability to stand alone is as painfully evident as that of any of the other component parts of the system.

To all his rebukes she turned a deaf or sullen ear, and so they each finished their meal eating little, either of them, for till she would sit at table he would give her no more, and his vexation had taken away his own appetite.

The father applied himself particularly to devising means of instructing the deaf in speech.

But in very many instances it is quite proper to insert the preposition where this verb is transitive; as, "He maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

The profound disquiet of our era never touches Goethe; discords do not affect the deaf.

Our country's liege, who, to remonstrance deaf, Rode his white horse again, the gleaming white That Froben erstwhile bought for him in England, Became once more, as ever was the case, The target for the foe's artillery.

These successive defections greatly alarmed the favourite, who became more than ever urgent for the return of the Queen-mother to the capital; but a consciousness of her increasing power, together with the insidious advice of Richelieu, rendered her deaf alike to his representations and to his promises.

"Mr. Ambassador," was the reply of the noble old man, "I never receive money; but have the goodness to say to her Majesty, that, if my labors have seemed to her worthy of any consideration, I ask, as an especial favor, that she will send to me from her dominions some ignorant deaf and dumb child, that I may instruct him.

Strange, too, he began about crops an' prices; then he had somethin' to say about the village, and from that to livin' in big cities, an' how such places changes people's natures, makin' women different creaturesmore bold, more forgetful of friends, less kindly to their sex, than those of the country; an' he said it all as slowly an' softly an' solemnly as those ministers pray who don't think the Lord's deaf.

"'Has she no faults then,' Envy says, 'Sir?' 'Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her The woman's deaf, and does not hear.'" John Mortimer was sitting at breakfast the very morning after this conversation had taken place at Melcombe.

Thou shalt not curse the deaf.

names, and written with capital Deaf and dumb The deaf and dumb, to whom the letters represent no sounds, learn to read and write; what inferred herefrom Defective verb, what verb so called which tenses of, wanting Defective verbs, whether they should be reckoned a distinct class may, can, must, and shall, not to be referred to the class of will, beware, &c., construc.