"Deaf-and-dumb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him slowly. His face turned a little pale, and he stared at her blankly, like a deaf-and-dumb man who was wondering what ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry
... tells of the case of a ten-year-old boy, who, by reason of an attack of fever, became deaf. The physician could afford the lad but little relief, so the boy applied himself to the task of learning the deaf-and-dumb alphabet. The other members of his family, too, acquired a working knowledge of the alphabet, in order that they might ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers
... thousand dollars to the Pennsylvania Hospital, in which his wife had been cared for; twenty thousand to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum; ten thousand to the Orphan Asylum; ten thousand to the Lancaster schools; ten thousand for the purpose of providing the poor in Philadelphia with free fuel; ten thousand to the Society for ...
— Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made • James D. McCabe, Jr.
... the negative—Miss Valery saying, with attempted gaiety, "You know, one might as well question a stone wall as Nathanael. He can be both deaf and dumb." ...
— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)
... sir, all right; and, if any one mentions the poor lady before me, you may depend upon it I shall look like a deaf and dumb statty ...
— Amos Huntingdon • T.P. Wilson
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