"Stone-deaf" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the name of Roy—when he answers to anything at all. He is young, very wilful, and a little hard of hearing, of which latter affliction he makes the most. He always understands when he is invited to go out. He is stone-deaf, invariably, when he is told to come back. But he is full of affection, and he has a keen sense of humor. In the face he looks like Thomas Carlyle, and Professor John Weir declares that his body ...
— A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs • Laurence Hutton
... snocks and slats, since war began Never knew raw recruit or veteran: Stone-deaf therence went many a man ...
— Wessex Poems and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy
... not have suited Fate. She loves to laugh at men, and to make of life a paradox. To the one, she played ravishing strains, having first taken the precaution to make him stone-deaf. To the other, she piped a few poor notes on a cracked tin-whistle, and he thought ...
— Diary of a Pilgrimage • Jerome K. Jerome |
