Amongst other troubles, he was getting stone deaf, he said; but consoled himself with the reflection that his friend Charles Landseer was two stone deafer.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
If there is anything in presentiments, surely one of these whispered warnings thus early in my pilgrimage, though I was deafer than the adder just then.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
"Darn me if I'm not gettin' deafer every day," was the reply.
"The Mysterious Rider"
Zane Grey