deaf-and-dumb

Before he meddled with it, it used to talk back like a mother-in-law, but now it was only fit for the deaf-and-dumb asylum.

Goose-Skin runs after the trouvere, and imitating the gestures of the deaf-and-dumb, indicates that he pledges himself to silence.

This time Raissa had her little deaf-and-dumb sister with her.

The last column inquired whether the householder was “Deaf-and-dumb, blind, imbecile, or lunatic?”

This may be a reason why Sophy, with her deaf-and-dumb child in her arms, seemed to stand silent by me all through my nap.