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An officer of this guard came down the road and told us all his men had turned out without exception, including an old fellow of seventy, and stone-deaf, who had been roused by the rifle-fire, and one minus several fingers recently blown off by a shell.
A mighty fine climax truly, to make a Horrible Mess all over the floor, and frighten the neighbours out of their wits, besides, as a waggish friend of mine has it, rendering yourself stone-deaf for life. If it comes to powder and ball, why, a Man of courage would much sooner blow out somebody else's Brains instead of his own.
He seemed to have suddenly gone stone-deaf, and had every single word repeated to him three times over; but when Musli said to him that if he would not listen to what he was saying, he, Musli, would go off at once to the Sultan and tell him, Kabakulak opened his ears a little wider, became somewhat more gracious, and asked Musli, quite amicably, what he could do for him.
Nanny Sutie bore up under the shadow of the windmill which would have been heavier had Auld Licht ministers worn gowns but the pump affected her to tears. She was stone-deaf. For the first year or more of his ministry an Auld Licht minister was a mouse among cats. Both in the pulpit and out of it they watched for unsound doctrine, and when he strayed they took him by the neck. Mr.
For all the visible effect this speech had on the stranger he might as well have been stone-deaf, for he vouchsafed not the slightest notice. George shouted again, with a like result, and then still feeling very doubtful as to the best mode of proceeding he struck out, and swam quietly round the ghastly floating figure.
He always understands when he is invited to go out. He is stone-deaf, invariably, when he is told to come back. But he is full of affection, and he has a keen sense of humor. In the face he looks like Thomas Carlyle, and Professor John Weir declares that his body is all out of drawing! At times his devotion to his mistress is beautiful and touching.
That postilion with the people in the broken-down chaise roaring after him is as deaf as the post by which he passes. Suppose all the accessories were away, could not one swear that the man was stone-deaf, beyond the reach of trumpet? What is the peculiar character in a deaf man's physiognomy? can any person define it satisfactorily in words? not in pages; and Mr.
Come on," she shouted to Mrs. Jefferson, without using the trumpet always a subtle compliment to those nearly stone-deaf, "I mustn't wheel myself about, so I'm going to wheel you." As she passed with her charge into the garden, her mind was busy with thoughts of Grace Noir. Belonging to Mrs. Gregory naturally suggested getting rid of the secretary. It would be exceedingly difficult.
"He wants training. That's what I am always telling him. But he can't hear. He's seventy and stone-deaf. But he's interesting. He tells me about jails and things." "Jails?" "Yes. He spent most of his time in prison. He was a professional burglar but then he got on in years. Besides, the younger generation was knocking at the door."
The stone-deaf will of course be dependent upon printed books prepared for their benefit, as raised-letter books used to be for the blind." As we entered the elevator to ascend to the upper floors of the establishment, Hamage explained that he wanted me to see, before I left, the process of phonographing books, which was the modern substitute for printing them.
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