In this strait the idea suddenly crossed his mind that his greatest security would be in feigning dumbness.

bravo, Keats!"and then he went on in a dilation upon, the dumbness of all Nature during the season's suspension and torpidity.

Its brevity pointed the previous dumbness of the speaker: "Deep enough!"

More and more weird waxed the grisly dumbness of five-sided Morgan and the spectral silence of the oncoming league-long fleet.