During his residence in France, he taught some five or six mutes of high rank to speak and to make considerable attainments in science,charging for this service most princely fees, and at the same time binding his pupils to perfect secrecy in regard to his methods, which it was his intention to bequeathe to his family.

" "I can't stand it in here; I'm suffocating!" "Got your mute in your pocket, son?" "Yes, ma; for God's sake, yes!

I touched her cradle mute; She recognized the foot, Put on her carmine suit, And see!

Surprise and indecision held the Rover mute, while wonder and alarm appeared to have literally frozen the faculties of the other.

For the moment thought of it left her mute.

The scientist sees the apple fall and has the revelation of a universe moving in a symphony before which the mind stands mute and awestruck.

His book on Visible Speech explained his method of instructing deaf mutes in speech by the aid of their sight, and of teaching them to understand the speech of others by watching their lips as the words are spoken.

'Tis darkness and conjecture all beyond; Weak Nature fears, though Charity must hope, And Fancy, most licentious on such themes Where decent reverence well had kept her mute, Hath o'er-stock'd hell with devils, and brought down, By her enormous fablings and mad lies, Discredit on the gospel's serious truths And salutary fears.

He lay mute as death in his gloomy cell; deeper horror grew and grew, gusts of rage swept over him, gusts of despair.

Nay, this grammatist makes b, not a labial mute, as Walker, Webster, Cobb, and others, have called it, but a nasal subtonic, or semivowel.

[Footnote 1: By the same means two deaf-mutes, miles apart, might converse with each other, and the greatest difficulty in the way of a deaf-mute becoming a telegraph operator, that of receiving messages, would be removed.

The tiny hole at the base of the brain, the blood-stain on the pillow, which the head had concealed, offered their mute and ghastly testimony.

Thou knowest how Heaven permitted my little mute to inform me of the orders of his sublime majesty.

And they preserved the mute, moody, and somewhat anxious demeanor of children who are abandoned to the care of servants.

But after such a policy had produced a mute, sullen, muzzled, lifeless India, we could hardly call it, as we do now the brightest jewel in the Imperial Crown.

render silent &c adj.; silence, still, hush; stifle, muffle, stop; muzzle, put to silence &c (render mute) 581.

There, on bright hovering wings that tire Never, they rested mute, Nor of far journeys had desire, Nor of the deathless fruit; For in and through each angel soul All waves of life and knowledge roll, Even as to nadir streamed the fire Of their torches resolute.

Here lies the home of school-boy life, With creaking stair and wind-swept hall, And, scarred by many a truant knife, Our old initials on the wall; Here resttheir keen vibrations mute

We all knew that the mother's heart was the bereaved one, however impressed the father's imagination might be by the picture of his own desolation; and we saw her mute about her own trial, and growing whiter in the face and smaller from month to month, while he put no restraint upon his tears and lamentations.

" Tristram sat mute; for how could he announce the truth?

Cedric, struck mute by the sudden appearance of his banished son, now rushed forward.

Then I wrote this sonnet: "So gentle and so modest doth appear My lady when she giveth her salute, That every tongue becometh trembling mute, Nor do the eyes to look upon her dare.

Because, as I have urged before, 'tis mute, And is itself the subject of dispute.

I have added these words as Carlos addresses the mutes a little later in the scene.

His dim eye lighted up with something of its old fire as he glanced at the characters; he then closed the book, placed it in his bosom, and waving me a mute farewellI saw he durst not trust himself to speakhastily departed.