mute
/mjut/ noun C2- The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
Plural mutes
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Sometimes she stood mute and motionless as a statue, looking towards Marseilles, at other times gazing on the sea, and debating as to whether it were not better to cast herself into the abyss of the ocean, and thus end her woes.
Marilla looked at Anne and softened at sight of the child’s pale face with its look of mute misery--the misery of a helpless little creature who finds itself once more caught in the trap from which it had escaped.
Dantès remained for a short time mute and motionless; at length he said:
He remained, therefore, mute and motionless, hardly venturing to breathe.
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