Her muteness was a consequence of her deafness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The tidal wave of muteness is thought to have been caused by a post published this morning by Peter Black. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
Her muteness is a desperate appeal for help - to be deported and sent home. From Wordnik.com. [Political Affairs Magazine] Reference
It's a cast of the inside part of a library, so it's all about silence and muteness, which is what happened. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of Honoring The Dead] Reference
If only he could have burst out of his glorious "muteness" to say her name out loud - the best name ever!. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
It is the kind of muteness that reverberates with fear and anxiety from within, threatening to make obsolete all beliefs and learning. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News] Reference
In everything - weariness, muteness and bleakness. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Elsner: New Cello-Piano Duo Brings Insights into "Russian Soul"] Reference
At such a time I felt acutely aware of his muteness. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
In opposition to the physical muteness in her texts. From Wordnik.com. [Elfriede Jelinek: Provocation as the Breath of Life] Reference
The old gestural muteness won't play in these halls. From Wordnik.com. [These Kids Today] Reference
Too many Americans are polite to the point of muteness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference
Solipsistic muteness with an exhaltation startled and choking. From Wordnik.com. [American Papyrus: 25 Poems] Reference
Thy muteness even is like to strangle me, thou abysmal mute one!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
Soames preserved a perfect muteness, busy with far-away thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [In Chancery] Reference
She turned abruptly away, and stood at a distance in gloomy muteness. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
What about the hijacking of threads by halbert holmert and the muteness of TP?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Pelosi: Congress Will Not Fund Escalation If Bush Does Not Justify It] Reference
The barking of Elsa outside the house broke against the muteness of her terror. From Wordnik.com. [Call Of The Heart]
Was Charles Lamb right when he spoke of “the uncommunicating muteness of fishes”?. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
No one had ever heard her sing; her muteness had called forth the wildest explanations. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
It is a muteness born of fear and cynicism, one that is a deficient form of moral judgment. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: 'Commonweal' blasts 'First Things' on the war.] Reference
Compared with the front end, the fuselage of the car is understated to the point of muteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Better to Eat You With, Luxury Rivals] Reference
She almost fell over Cassie, terrified into muteness, followed by Amos screaming with fright. From Wordnik.com. [The Dollmaker] Reference
With grief there is the muteness and immobility of the person deeply entrenched in the emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Writing of Grief « Write Anything] Reference
Because of its muteness, the right brain half gives the impression of being inferior to the left. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Metaphoric richness seems to give way here to linguistic paucity, almost to the point of muteness. From Wordnik.com. [Lea Goldberg.] Reference
For a day or two he persevered in his muteness, uttering a word only when it could not be avoided. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
As the noiseless carriage sped along I turned toward Blackana, who, in strange muteness still tarried at my side. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory] Reference
Stunned into muteness, Fraser and Lorraine hung there and looked, lost themselves in the scene, for a time beyond time. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Natural blindness, deafness, muteness, and congenital deformities of limb are more or less likely to be passed on to their children. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
Report specifically for those who suffer from a specific disability, be it blindness, or being paralyzed, deafness, muteness, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people? - Boing Boing] Reference
For it is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
Rhoda, with a sign, tempered him to muteness, and the three eyed one another. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
Tingson believes that there was a sense of muteness he felt when he was monitoring the news. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News] Reference
Henrietta could have bitten her tongue for laying her open to the censure implied in his muteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
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