"Deafen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Daybreak tagigxo. Daybook taglibro. Daydream revo. Day laborer taglaboristo. Daze duonesvenigi. Dazzle blindigi. Deacon diakono. Dead (lifeless) senviva. Deadly pereiga. Deadhouse mortintejo. Deaf surda. Deafen surdigi. Deafmute surdamutulo. Deafness surdeco. Deal (sell) komerci. Deal out disdoni. Dealer komercisto. Dean fakultestro. Dear kara. Dear (person) karulo. Dear (price) multekosta. Dearth seneco. Death morto. Deathless ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... without him. Nevertheless, the sudden panic had left a nameless, unrecognized fear lurking somewhere, which gave an added intensity to her desire that he would wake up and speak to her once more; and sometimes the beating of her own heart seemed to deafen her, so that she could not hear the sound of his heavy irregular breathing, and then nothing but the dread of disturbing him could have prevented her from jumping up and going to him to make sure that he was still ...
— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter
... commensurate with the immensity of their needs. But to resign oneself to the present condition of things as inevitable seems to me almost as heartless as to fold our hands helplessly at a time of absolute famine. To deafen our ears to the immediate distresses of the submerged tenth may be less criminal in degree but ...
— Darkest India - A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" • Commissioner Booth-Tucker
... his four nurses and six under-nurses, he would escape into the street, and run about with the little boys he met there. One day he gave one of them a sovereign for a locust. Certainly the locust was a "double-drummer", and could deafen the German Band when shaken up judiciously; still, it was ...
— Three Elephant Power • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
... bolted out of the door, (a storm at sea did not deafen one like that!) Melindy following, in silence such as our blessed New England poet has ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various
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