Lieschen went away with the mute blessing of his finger on one of her modest dimples; but, to his amazement, she returned in the evening.
She moved impulsively forward, and stretched out her hands in mute invitation, but there was no response.
Sir Allan Beaumerville was standing on the threshold, looking at her in mute amazement, and over his shoulder was the pale stern face of Mr. Brown.
The mute anxiety of her tearful gaze, the color which came and fled from her face--he understood all these signs.
He stood there with his hand stretched out in a threatening gesture toward her, his face pale and mute as marble, but with the blind rage still burning in his dark eyes.
Then he turned suddenly round, and in the twilight his white face and dark luminous eyes seemed to her like muteemblems of an anguish which moved her woman's heart to pity.
I consider this to be the key to the use of the e mute in all words where it is preceded by one consonant only.
From the circumstance that the French and the English are the only nations wherein the e mute is part and parcel of the orthography, it has been hastily imagined that the employment of it is to be attributed to the Norman Conquest.
The fact that, in certain words, an e mute is preceded by {192} two consonants and by a short vowel, does not militate against the view given above.
The next process is for a succeeding generation to mistake a coincidence for a sign, and to imagine that an e mute expresses the length of syllable.
In hedge and oblige the e mute serves to show that the g is to be pronounced as j.
I believe that in the fact of each mute appearing in a fourfold form (i.
In Greek and Hebrew the third letter (gimel, gamma) had the power of the flat mute g, as in gun.
And when Prudence left his encircling arm and lifted widely-opened eyes to his, he almost winced before their mute interrogation.
Charles, the second footman, looked like a mute at a funeral.
And now, probably, unfeeling children would thrum upon its venerable keys, and tease the old instrument to speak more strongly, until it should be mute forever.
To be sure it is your privilege to be asmute as a fish and yet enjoy the reputation of a clever man.
Tis true, the head disappeared instantly, but Elizabeth had time to recognize the mute Bertha, and to convince herself that she was the object of that look of rage and hate, although she could not divine its cause.
The smoke was curling peacefully from one of the two great chimneys, as if offering a muteinvitation to a stranger to enter the house and partake of what was being cooked within.
Crops were being gathered in, and there were merrymakings and church festivals, but the poor woman sat alone in her room that fronted the street, now and then casting her eyes up and down in mute questioning.
She took his hand, the mute gratitude in her eyes, in her whole face; its sweetness touched him.
What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
Pat stood soberly regarding the man, his ears forward, head drooping, tail motionless, as if recognizing in this mute object an erstwhile master.
In the moment needed to regain her self-possession she could only regard him with mute gratitude.
To his left stood two horses, with heads drooping, legs slightly spread, reins dangling, quiet and patient in their mute waiting.
It would not surprise me to learn that she belongs to the class of "mute inglorious" Miltons.
The words of the Latin inscription perhaps make a mute appeal for charity for the latter when they say, "Consorts both in throne and grave, in the hope of one resurrection".
Royal persons, favourites, intriguers, bishops, passed like mute phantoms behind their veil of names.
That floats along the gilded shell, Who the mute tenant of the watry way Canst teach, at pleasure, to excel The softest note harmonious Sorrow brings, When the expiring Swan her own sad requiem sings.
Evidently those beautiful verses had struck a chord hitherto mutein the heart of the poor untaught London waif.
Their mysterious origin, their nobility of soul, their mute adoration of the Great Spirit, the wild poetry of their legends, all have combined to make me admire them with all the fervor of my nature.
Her eyes fell to her lap, and her fingers twitched each other as nervously as if she were a mute and were spelling.
The only touch was that of Sir Claude's hand, and to feel her own in it was her mute resistance to time.
During the dialogue between the officer and his sister Johnny had stood inmute astonishment.
Crossing his arms over his breast, and bending his eye on the ground, he remained mute as a statue.
And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke; and the crowds marveled, saying, "Never was anything like this seen in Israel.
And one of the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, who has a mute spirit.
He even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.
As they were going out, behold, a mute and demon-possessed man was brought to him.
So it was, when the demon had gone out, that the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.
So the multitude marveled when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed made whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
What he thought I do not know; for he sat as mute as a fish, and I could not see his countenance.
He scaled an overhanging rock that ended in a small promontory and there, mute and motionless, with crossed arms and blazing eyes, he seemed to be laying claim to these southernmost regions.
Of the other men on board, I saw only my emotionless steward, who served me with his usual mute efficiency.
As I mused in this way, trying to establish in my memory every detail of this impressive landscape, Captain Nemo was leaning his elbows on a moss-covered monument, motionless as if petrified in some mute trance.
Just then, asmute and emotionless as ever, seven crewmen climbed onto the platform.
After supper was served me by the mute and emotionless steward, I fell asleep; but not without some anxieties.
More stunned than afraid, we stood mute and motionless.
At once both cause and effect, it impresses the coldest natures; it is a species of muteeloquence which holds the masses.
In the life of all women there comes a moment when they comprehend their destiny,--when their hitherto mute organization speaks peremptorily.
I soon found myself too much the mother of that young man to be insensible to his mute and delicate admiration.
In spite of Madame Sauviat's mute but persistent opposition, Madame Graslin formed an almost monomaniacal habit of sitting in the same place, where she seemed to give way to the blackest melancholy.
