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There is a certain poignancy in describing animals as our “dumb friends”; in noting the “blank bewilderment” of a dog; in nodding at their “uncommunicating muteness.”

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

There is a certain poignancy in describing animals as our “dumb friends”; in noting the “blank bewilderment” of a dog; in nodding at their “uncommunicating muteness.”

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

But imitative form can excuse only so much uncommunicating prose.

Reports From The Heartland 2008

Was Charles Lamb right when he spoke of “the uncommunicating muteness of fishes”?

My Tropic Isle 2003

I have seen these shy gownsmen, who truly set but a very slight value upon female conversation, cast a hawk's eye upon her from the length of Maudlin Grove, and warily glide off into another walk, -- true monks as they are, and ungently neglecting the delicacies of her polished converse, for their own perverse and uncommunicating solitariness!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

She looked at the seven travellers who met each night round the table for dinner, overcome with the mystery of those uncommunicating, shrouded heads.

The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935

Wealth has accumulated itself into masses; and Poverty, also id accumulation enough, lies impassably separated from it; opposed, uncommunicating, like forces in positive and negative poles.

Paras. 20-39 1909

I also must have been affected by it, for I had been there also in his uncommunicating company.

Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907

Was Charles Lamb right when he spoke of "the uncommunicating muteness of fishes"?

My Tropic Isle 1887

He thought he had obtained a mystic recognition of the terrorless but uncommunicating Joy of life which while men live they pursue, desiring it with the one human craving which survives every misfortune, every thwarted hope, all enslavement of the heart's small freedom -- the thirst for happiness.

Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange John Oliver Hobbes 1886