When we stand beside the newly dead the most intolerable reflection of countless mourners is that their tears fall on quiet lips to which they gave scant caresses, in the days of health: their passionate words of love are uttered to unhearing ears, which in life waited eagerly for such assurances as these, and waited vainly.
"The Empire of Love"
W. J. Dawson
Many of the wall-flowers and elderly guests poured their chatter into his unhearing ear, and thought him a most sympathetic listener.
"Out of the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet
And Laure lay upon the bed, sometimes wildly delirious, sometimes a dreadful statue of stone,-unhearing, unseeing, unmoving,-death without death's rest,-life in death's bonds of iron.
"Mère Girauds Little Daughter"
Frances Hodgson Burnett