Mutes
[mju:ts]
Examples
- The new arrival was the Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil, who had once visited Bell’s school for deaf-mutes in Boston. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- His father was a teacher of vocal physiology at Edinburgh, and he himself became a teacher of deaf mutes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Some people ought to have mutes for servants in Vanity Fair--mutes who could not write. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He had already had very considerable success in teaching deaf-mutes to talk by visible speech, or sign-language, and this success was repeated in Canada. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Bell had presented his stock in the company to his wife on their wedding-day, and he now took up afresh the work of his boyhood and youth, the teaching of deaf-mutes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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