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He had seen George Rose --- but George was grown dumb,
The Devil's Drive 2002
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To sit in a corner, like one with a cut tongue, deaf and dumb,
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And they're vastly mistaken who think he'll be dumb,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 Various
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And old liquor able to make a cat speak, and man dumb,
English Songs and Ballads Various
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Her hapless parent strive to cheer, -- struck dumb,
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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While the Twins, with amazement struck utterly dumb,
Fishy-Winkle Jean C. Archer
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They are her strongest point; and were they her sole charm, were she deaf and dumb,
Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
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A silent language which can speak when Friendship's voice is dumb,
The Minstrel A Collection of Poems Lennox Amott
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Old thoughts and dreams, words breathed by lips long dumb,
The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner
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Grey Plymouth rock hath yet a tongue, and Concord is not dumb,
The Liberty Minstrel George W. Clark
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