Muteness Allusions, Definition, Citation, Reference, Information - Allusion to Muteness
- Elops dumb serpent; gives no warning of its approach. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost]
- Henry bald-headed, pugnosed and silent youngster of comic strip. [Comics: Sheridan, 200]
- Painted Bird, The Kosinski novel about a foundling boy struck dumb by inhuman treatment. [Am. Lit.: Weiss, 345]
- Singer, Mr. mute whose disability restricts his social contacts. [Am. Lit.: Carson McCullers The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in Magill II, 416]