"Deave" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Meadowsweet. She rose from her easy-chair. "You mean to be good-natured, neighbors, but really you're enough to deave one. How am I bearing up? Am I the woman to bring ill-luck to my child by crying at her wedding? No, she's not in—she's at the Bertrams. But there's her ring now at the hall-door. Good-night, neighbors both. You mean it kindly, but don't stay ...
— The Honorable Miss - A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town • L. T. Meade
... men to bliss above; The world hath wist what it is worth, certain, Devotion of chastity to love."] Then showed him Cecilie all open and plain, That idols all are but a thing in vain, For they be dumb, and thereto* they be deave;** *therefore **deaf And charged him ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... minnie does constantly deave me, [mother, deafen] And bids me beware o' young men; They flatter, she says, to deceive me; But wha can think ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson |
