This old house had wasted -- more from desuetude than it would have wasted from use, twenty years for one. From LearnThat.org. [Charles Dickens.]
But when Trent rolled around the practice was already in desuetude, and only one lonely instance was somewhat doubtfully recorded of Vatican I. From Wordnik.com. [11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003] Reference
Toasts have also fallen into "desuetude" at private dinners. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
Some of these ancient usages have fallen into desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
The mind is a machine ill suited to long periods of desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
He stayed four days, and was dismissed for innocuous desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
Supposedly, desuetude does not apply to violations of the Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [Impeachment Desuetude Will Foster Presidential Crimes] Reference
By Clinton's second term, the Agreed Framework was falling into desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [John Delury: Mistmatch: New Game Plan for US-DPRK Relations] Reference
A drop to desuetude may of its last half be far more silent than of its first. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
This custom was kept up until early in this century, when it fell into desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
Iraqis didn't want them, and they're falling into desuetude, I think, as we speak. From Wordnik.com. [Following The Reconstruction Money In Iraq] Reference
"Look up their battle records and you might appreciate their present desuetude more.". From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of Pern, First Fall]
Among certain indulgent officials these enactments had been allowed to fall into desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
And, of course I hear the perpetual drone of traffic and observe desuetude, detritus and graffiti. From Wordnik.com. [Lisa Adams: Paris Has Its Seine, Vienna Has Its Danube, London Has Its Thames and We (Lucky Us) Have Our L.A. River] Reference
Moreover the law had fallen into disuse -- or, as the President put it -- into "innocuous desuetude.". From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Hill district was quietly quashed and its honorable board of education went into "innocuous desuetude.". From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Laws, like customs, may cease to have a significance, and they may be modified or allowed to fall into desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The uncertainty results from the impossibility of saying whether the doctrine of desuetude had changed the law by. From Wordnik.com. ["From Interposition to Nullification: Peripheries and Center in the Thought of James Madison." Kevin Raeder Gutzman] Reference
New York is too large for such things, and dancing cards have been relegated to the realms of innocuous desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
A few minutes more, and all the thugs would likely have subsided into a state of innocuous desuetude-but so would we. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
The custom of ringing a bell, at that hour, is one which has fallen into desuetude, although, once, almost universal in. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
Meanwhile, the tribute system itself was falling into desuetude, with grave consequences for China's maritime security. From Wordnik.com. [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference
And the women disappear, maybe to the gym or the wine bar or Selfridges, their brains having lapsed into happy desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity...] Reference
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals held that penal statutes may become void under the doctrine of desuetude if: l. From Wordnik.com. [Impeachment Desuetude Will Foster Presidential Crimes] Reference
In many parts of the country it was made a regular festival, but, like all these old customs, it has fallen into desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
It is true, the fashion of wearing the collar, whether gold or silver, may be said to have been in desuetude for centuries. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850] Reference
One night, at a party, I became utterly bewildered in an attempt to converse, after long desuetude, with a fascinating woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
A man of the breadth of acquaintance, of the breadth of interests, that was John Schuyler's may not fall to desuetude unwatchful. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
Anne, regarded the Royal Touch as a purely superstitious method of healing, and during his reign the practice fell into desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
In the heat of the excitement of war the system lost almost all of its rigor, the slave codes in some cases falling into desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
Of Christ-tide Masques I have already written, and after they fell into desuetude there was nothing theatrical absolutely peculiar to. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
She was wondering if the request that had been so unexpectedly made of her would prove to be her way out from her prison of desuetude. From Wordnik.com. [The Apartment Next Door] Reference
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