When I get home, I'm stone-deaf, according to my wife. From Wordnik.com. [Predator]
Ricardo, however, was stone-deaf to what Malthus was saying. From Wordnik.com. [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference
The engine was still running at full speed and within a few moments I was stone-deaf. From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
I started away from the others, forgetting them, forgetting everything, sunblind, stone-deaf?. From Wordnik.com. [Catspaw]
And whatever suitors are hauled in will probably be stone-deaf and ninety at worst,: Kantor sighed. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Valor]
Even Lord Merkeset leaned forward and held his cupped hand behind his good ear, the other being stone-deaf. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
The woman was either stone-deaf, or pretended to be so; but at all events she gave me no satisfaction, and I remounted and rode away. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and stone-blind. From Wordnik.com. [Last Poems] Reference
An old aunt left her the money because she was stone-deaf. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Quack] Reference
As I was stone-deaf in the right ear I always slept on the left side. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont] Reference
Suppose you were stone-deaf, there would be no such thing as sound to you. From Wordnik.com. [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference
Grevin, who had served under Admiral Simeuse in India, and was now stone-deaf. From Wordnik.com. [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference
She would, every few minutes, sink into a reverie, and appear to be stone-deaf. From Wordnik.com. [Aylwin] Reference
Madness, stone-blind, stone-deaf -- that uttered no cry, and poured out no tears. From Wordnik.com. [Agatha's Husband A Novel] Reference
There must be a heckova lot of stone-deaf music teachers around according to this. From Wordnik.com. [Eye on Britain] Reference
Not being, in fact, stone-deaf, Waldo found himself obliged to make some response. From Wordnik.com. [Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book] Reference
I think if you had been stone-deaf, and stone-blind, you wouldn't have kept away from. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Still stone-deaf to the voice, and utterly unmoved by it, Miss Betsey pursued her discourse. From Wordnik.com. [XIV. My Aunt Makes up Her Mind about Me] Reference
I believed him stone-deaf till, on roaring with all the power of my lungs, he answered "Yes.". From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
To the one, she played ravishing strains, having first taken the precaution to make him stone-deaf. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Pilgrimage] Reference
Suppose all the accessories were away, could not one swear that the man was stone-deaf, beyond the reach of trumpet?. From Wordnik.com. [George Cruikshank] Reference
He did not know what had occurred, and, being stone-deaf, had thought the rush aft a response to a call for all hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
The feeble-minded faun (the stone-deaf man) led the way to Mr. Pike's assistance, followed by Tony, the suicidal Greek. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
Stone-blind all, and stone-deaf, and with hearts of stone; whereas who ever saw a house without eyes -- that is, windows?. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference
I noticed the stone-deaf man, the twisted oaf whose face I have described as being that of an ill-treated and feeble-minded faun. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
I am stone-deaf. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
To all intents I was stone-deaf. From Wordnik.com. [In the Claws of the German Eagle] Reference
Miss Torsen was stone-deaf to his songs. From Wordnik.com. [Look Back on Happiness] Reference
His honor'll be stone-deaf when ye tell him that. From Wordnik.com. [Man on the Box] Reference
"why, just see here -- I'm stone-deaf, and can't hear a note of what I'm singing to you!. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
She was stone-deaf. From Wordnik.com. [Auld Licht Idylls] Reference
She’s stone-deaf. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Man on the Bench]
One of our widows -- Madame Notte -- was almost stone-deaf. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
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