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Muteness
Elops dumb serpent; gives no warning of its approach. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] bald-headed, pugnosed and silent youngster of comic strip. [Comics: Sheridan, 200] Kosinski novel about a foundling boy struck dumb by inhuman treatment. [Am. Lit.: Weiss, 345] mute whose disability restricts his social contacts. [Am. Lit.: Carson McCullers The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in Magill II, 416] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Thy muteness even is like to strangle me, thou abysmal mute one! I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or universality. Even Sedley's valet, the most solemn and correct of gentlemen, with the muteness and gravity of an undertaker, could hardly keep his countenance in order, as he looked at his unfortunate master. |
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