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Like in a trance, she stepped towards it subconsciously, her ear deaf to Lianda's callings.
I was kind of deaf in one ear, and was scared at the time that it would never get better.
If the linguistic space is sign language, then the deaf infant will acquire language in that modality.
He also knew of elders from a previous generation who were deaf and used sign language.
When environmental concerns were initially raised, early on, Government turned a deaf ear.
She just accepted what the book said about how to feed our daughter, and turned a deaf ear to me, even if the hungry baby was crying for milk.
Ever get the feeling our Prime Minister just turns a deaf ear whenever he's given information that doesn't fit neatly with his politics?
The fact of the matter is, this administration has turned a deaf ear to the industrial heartland.
The passage assumes that the blind will, in fact, want their sight back and the deaf to hear again, the lame to walk properly and dumb to speak.
Once we had this physics lesson with a relief teacher because our normal teacher was off sick and Andy pretended to be deaf.
I couldn't quite hear him because I stepped on a landmine and the explosion has made me deaf.
In her complaint to the SSP, Ms Suman alleged that the despite repeated representations the local police turned a deaf ear to their grievances.
The type preferred by most deaf adults is American Sign Language, which has rules and grammar that is distinct from English.
Harvey found most deaf children and their hearing parents unable to communicate in the primary language system of Ameslan.
When the property management company turned a deaf ear to residents' advice, residents refused to pay the fees.
Unfortunately, these same people can turn a deaf ear when forced to listen to someone else's point of view.
The bishop has turned a deaf ear to their repeated pleas to him to reverse this decision.
The Minister is turning a deaf ear to the pleas of the people on the ground who know first hand what the situation is.
She went deaf when she was a baby, before the age of the cochlear implant, as a side effect of polio.
Both are even apparent in children who have been blind and deaf from birth, who differentiate strangers from familiars by their smell.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He learned me the deaf alphabet, and how to read in the Braille book, and it's not so bad now.
From afar the rumors of revelry, the brouhaha of a mad population, saluted his deaf ears, the distant music of lutes and viols.
The watchman of this secret chamber was an illiterate, deaf and dumb peasant.
Little deaf Antony thought of tobacco unlimited, a silver-mounted pipe, and plenty of unforbidden rum.
The ears of the outside attendants were by no means deaf, however, and now they came crowding up around the scene of the indaba.
She's a little older than Miss jacinth, and oh, Phebe, she's so awfully deaf.
I make myself hear, after being deaf for 25 years, with these artificial ear Drums.
While the killifish responds to a bass-viol string, there may be some fishes wholly deaf.
Imogen was deaf to their expostulations, and indurate and callous as adamant to their persuasions.
The state school was opened at Colorado Springs in 1874, and is for the deaf and the blind.
But you, my dear Olivia, will not be deaf to the warning voice of common sense.
The idea that the children from consanguineous marriages are apt to be deaf and dumb has no foundation in fact.
General mccall tries to rally the fugitives, but they are deaf to all his orders.
Of all the deaf born without hearing, 13.5 per cent are the offspring of consanguineous marriages.
Man-like, hot with the ardor of the chase, he was deaf and blind to all else.
On one occasion a locum tenens, who officiated for a few weeks, was stone deaf.
The newcomer was a large, seedy-looking man, with the resigned, unexpectant manner of the deaf.
Lysander was not deaf to their persuasions, and by his co-operation their request was granted.
Those who are not actually deaf, are troubled with difficulty of hearing, and tinnitus aurium.
I can turn a deaf ear to enticements the most alluring, and sounds the most insinuating.
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