1 She spoke in a loud cheerful voice, as if the old lady were deaf.
2 She read out for the benefit of her husband, who was deaf: "Where there's a Will there's a Way."
3 He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time.
4 Mrs. Pegler was by no means deaf, for she caught a word as it was uttered.
5 It was, however, no unusual thing for a priest of those days to be deaf of his Latin ear, and this the person who now addressed Cedric knew full well.
6 The terrified children cried bitterly; but the old woman, who had hitherto remained as quiet as if she had been wholly deaf to all that passed, menaced them into silence.
7 Nancy, apparently fearful of irritating the housebreaker, sat with her eyes fixed upon the fire, as if she had been deaf to all that passed.
8 Well, 'a was neither a deaf man, nor a dumb man, nor a blind man.'
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 9 When a woman in such a situation, neither old, deaf, crazed, nor whimsical, takes upon herself to sob and soliloquize aloud there is something grievous the matter.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 10 The man is rather deaf, and in any case we must take our chance of that.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 11 However, the man is fortunately rather deaf, and he was entirely preoccupied in that which he was doing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 12 He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 13 She was a little deaf, which rendered her talkative.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT 14 It seemed as though those walls had been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA 15 I will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who has a little bed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...