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    1. entirely into disuse " By the experience of above four hundred years," says Doctor Burn, " it


    2. They have been so long in disuse in England, that at present I know no English name for them


    3. But if the custom of weighing the gold coin should ever go into disuse, as it is very likely to do, and if the gold coin should ever fall into the same state of degradation in which it was before the late recoinage, the gain, or more properly the savings, of the bank, inconsequence of the imposition of a seignorage, would probably be very considerable


    4. Either from want of interest in the officers entrusted with the execution of those ordinances, or from some other cause, they appear to have been universally neglected; and in the progress of all those governments, military exercises seem to have gone gradually into disuse among the great body of the people


    5. Whereas to maintain, even in tolerable execution, the complex regulations of any modern militia, requires the continual and painful attention of government, without which they are constantly falling into total neglect and disuse


    6. In some countries, where the greater part of the other feudal customs have gone into disuse, this tax upon the alienation of land still continues to make a very considerable branch of the revenue of the sovereign


    7. nineteenth century, the name fell into disuse and was replaced by Hawaii


    8. Dixie approached a “council of elders” and begged that one of them would take me on as a “pigeon” (before that term fell into disuse as being not pc)


    9. What is a resurrection? It is a revival from inactivity and disuse


    10. It was a decayed place that had fallen into disuse

    11. The stranger, upon seeing them, assumed the coins in that compartment were the last type that had met its disuse


    12. Hurd couldn’t understand why no one wanted to eat, but because of that the kitchen, more or less, fell into disuse


    13. But if you disuse your thought and lean to this world without recognizing your Creator who founded you on this land and employed all creatures at your service, listen then to what had happened to the oppressive nations


    14. forward a theory of use and disuse


    15. The general instinctive awareness I call the sense of pure wonder is used less and less and basically atrophies into almost complete disuse


    16. We spoke in Italian although I had lost my fluency through disuse since my mother"s death


    17. With the increasing grip that our own tools have over our lives; the human qualities of honesty, courage, love, and wonder slowly fade into disuse and atrophy with the passage of time


    18. They went up the back stairs to the second floor, long hallways with rooms on either side of flooring made black from years of disuse


    19. Doug was struggling with the lid of the jar, sealed by a hundred years of dirt and disuse


    20. It had obviously been in disuse for years

    21. So you will sit in one place and stare… mesmerized by illusions of moving images… while your body rots into disuse and your life slips away from you as you spend years of your life sitting doing nothing but staring at illusions on a flat surface


    22. The tongues and teeth and mouths of mammals are organs which have been steadily dwindling into disuse just like our appendix has


    23. “Where I am?” Her voice sounded distant and thick with disuse


    24. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse


    25. They have attended more to the cure of diseases than to the conditions of health; and the improvements in medicine have been more than counterbalanced by the disuse of regular training


    26. “Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind


    27. This noble entrance, however, in spite of its striking appearance and the graceful effect of the geraniums planted in the two vases, as they waved their variegated leaves in the wind and charmed the eye with their scarlet bloom, had fallen into utter disuse


    28. As for those who did make a half-hearted effort to do so, in the majority of cases their minds were so rusty and stultified by long years of disuse, that, although the pamphlets were generally written in such simple language that a child might have understood, the argument was generally too obscure to be grasped by men whose minds were addled by the stories told them by their Liberal and Tory masters


    29. But then land had started to fall into disuse for lack


    30. The whole place smelt of mould and disuse

    31. perceived that the lines upon which you ran were rusted and corroded, red and yellow with disuse and decay! What a catch must have come in their breath as in a second it flashed upon them that it was not Manchester but Death which was waiting for them at the end of that sinister line


    32. I had often admired it and I knew my way about in it; I had only, after just faltering at the first chill gloom of its disuse, to pass across it and unbolt as quietly as I could one of the shutters


    33. The talk was all of the trade that came and went on the waterways and the growth of the traffic on the river, as the roads out of the East towards Mirkwood vanished or fell into disuse; and of the bickerings of the Lake-men and the Wood-elves about the upkeep of the Forest River and the care of the banks


    34. quarters, and when I had seen him he was either in the fasting stage of his existence in his rooms or, when he was bloated with fresh blood, in a ruined building open to the air, but here the place was small and close, and the long disuse had made the air stagnant and foul


    35. "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me


    36. Whenever she had free time she would go to the workroom to iron the linens; she kept them perfect, she kept them in cupboards with lavender, and she ironed and folded not only what she had just washed but also what might have lost its brightness through disuse


    37. His power to reason has relieved them of many of their duties, and so they have, to some extent, atrophied, as have the muscles which move the ears and scalp, merely from disuse


    38. Effects of changed conditions—Use and disuse, combined with natural


    39. EFFECTS OF THE INCREASED USE AND DISUSE OF PARTS, AS CONTROLLED BY NATURAL SELECTION


    40. From the facts alluded to in the first chapter, I think there can be no doubt that use in our domestic animals has strengthened and enlarged certain parts, and disuse diminished them; and that such modifications are inherited

    41. Under free nature we have no standard of comparison by which to judge of the effects of long-continued use or disuse, for we know not the parent-forms; but many animals possess structures which can be best explained by the effects of disuse


    42. As the larger ground-feeding birds seldom take flight except to escape danger, it is probable that the nearly wingless condition of several birds, now inhabiting or which lately inhabited several oceanic islands, tenanted by no beasts of prey, has been caused by disuse


    43. Hence, it will perhaps be safest to look at the entire absence of the anterior tarsi in Ateuchus, and their rudimentary condition in some other genera, not as cases of inherited mutilations, but as due to the effects of long-continued disuse; for as many dung-feeding beetles are generally found with their tarsi lost, this must happen early in life; therefore the tarsi cannot be of much importance or be much used by these insects


    44. In some cases we might easily put down to disuse modifications of structure which are wholly, or mainly due to natural selection


    45. These several considerations make me believe that the wingless condition of so many Madeira beetles is mainly due to the action of natural selection, combined probably with disuse


    46. This state of the eyes is probably due to gradual reduction from disuse, but aided perhaps by natural selection


    47. As frequent inflammation of the eyes must be injurious to any animal, and as eyes are certainly not necessary to animals having subterranean habits, a reduction in their size, with the adhesion of the eyelids and growth of fur over them, might in such case be an advantage; and if so, natural selection would aid the effects of disuse


    48. As it is difficult to imagine that eyes, though useless, could be in any way injurious to animals living in darkness, their loss may be attributed to disuse


    49. By the time that an animal had reached, after numberless generations, the deepest recesses, disuse will on this view have more or less perfectly obliterated its eyes, and natural selection will often have effected other changes, such as an increase in the length of the antennae or palpi, as a compensation for blindness


    50. On the whole, we may conclude that habit, or use and disuse, have, in some cases, played a considerable part in the modification of the constitution and structure; but that the effects have often been largely combined with, and sometimes overmastered by, the natural selection of innate variations




























    1. We became a single entity in those days and nights at the disused office, pooling our strength and our wits in this endless game of survival


    2. disused theatre a couple of streets away


    3. “There’s a disused building on the trail, which was at one time the


    4. is littered with disused portals


    5. Should the custom of weighing gold, however, come to be disused, as it is very likely to be on account of its inconveniency ; should the gold coin of England come to be received by tale, as it was before the late recoinage this great company may, perhaps, find that they have, upon this, as upon some other occasions, mistaken their own interest not a little


    6. When he found her, she was propped up on pillows in an old iron bed in the middle of what looked like a disused ward


    7. The lighting was dim and the whole effect was of a disused barn or old warehouse


    8. General Rubin entrenched his forces in a disused Bacardi distillery, with rough trenches built at an angle obtuse to the approaches


    9. Along the now disused trail between Daiquiri and Siboney, overcoats and blankets were rotting by the wayside, and some of the “boys” told the ragged pacificos of this discarded treasure which was useless to the army


    10. With Nicholls and MacDowell, I had lain behind the disused sugar-kettles at Marianje, against which bullets rang incessantly

    11. A tired and hungry group gathered in a disused drying yard; Crane, Harding, Davis, Burr, Mcintosh, Hare, Glackens, and myself


    12. It was the kind of thing you would expect to find in Coober Pedy, where opal miners made homes from disused mining tunnels to escape the heat


    13. The small storage room gave away few clues about his whereabouts; it could be underground, or in some old, disused building


    14. Her studio, a disused warehouse beside the motorway, was unlined, draughty, noisy and cold


    15. „There"s a dead body in the disused sport"s club down by the beach, and the murderer is in the main hospital with a bullet in his shoulder


    16. They drove further along the track to conceal the cars in case someone had seen them in the disused quarry the day before


    17. Zooming in on the map as the dot stopped, the tag showed that it was at a disused factory


    18. ” He jumped out of the car and unlocked a rusty iron gate that blocked their way, its disused hinges screeching in protest


    19. “And, finally, following an anonymous tip-off to police, the body of an unidentified male has been discovered in a shallow grave on a disused carrot farm


    20. The contaminated water having been blocked from flowing into the treatment plant had nowhere else to go but down the disused pipe and on into the sea

    21. "A disused logging road a few kilometres west," said Schacter


    22. "It's a disused World War Two restaging base midway between the States and Alaska


    23. A disused mining camp, still evident from years before, showed clearly


    24. Canadian Government topographs marked it as disused in 1917


    25. "The mining operation is probably disused," said the captain stubbornly


    26. The planets and moons are easy to plot but at least a million other bits of rock, comets and disused space vehicles litter the system


    27. He saw himself walking along a disused


    28. disused shelter in a field in Heighington near Lincoln


    29. A disused horse shelter


    30. I would like you first to empty your vehicles, I assume they are not family heirlooms because we will be disposing of them later today, Mr Crow’s is going to a watery grave in a local disused quarry, I have it on good authority it’s at least ten metres deep, next Mr Jays vehicle will pay a visit to a hydraulic press in a wrecker’s yard at Caboolture

    31. Then the school was moved to Iringa and the disused quarry at Kongwa remained but a dream


    32. He ordered them to grab the girl and bring her to him at a disused warehouse, where he planned to kill Max and Carla after the handover


    33. He lived in a disused child’s room, under


    34. It rose above a disused barn


    35. Almost every telegraph pole, or disused factory or house chimney had a giant pile of untidy sticks forming a circle, some 6 ft deep and up to 5 ft wide - easily big enough for vertically challenged midgets like ourselves to bed down in (and we had thought about it)


    36. She hustled him out the cupboard, and into the disused kitchens in a long empty wing of the


    37. In all the other cases, the terrorists had been busy during their years of apparent inactivity, secretly tunnelling alternative entry points to all their major dumps, normally disused bunkers or nuclear shelters in the Republic


    38. Atholl found a disused lectern


    39. Over the wall there was a disused cemetery, bounded on its south side by an old mews used now for light industry and garaging


    40. The haze in her mind began to clear and she stood carefully, stretching her disused muscles

    41. Carefully he slipped out through the back of the building and over a low concrete wall into the bushes at the side of a cracked and disused bitumen road that led to an old structure that while now derelict still possessed some of the façade that had once ranked it one of the mansions of the colony


    42. Instead of going back into the garage that would take him to Happy View Terrace he moved off to his left, down the disused bitumen road


    43. Today, this disused mine is the biggest tourist attraction in the state, but having missed all the action by several decades I had no great interest in going to see it


    44. A few quiet words were exchanged then they picked up Bezart’s body, carried it outside and calmly slid it over the low wall of an old, disused well


    45. way at a disused airfield in the north of the country


    46. The four main items I needed in large quantities were coke, pig iron, ferrous silicon and top quality cast iron scrap which came in the form of disused engine blocks


    47. many rusty, disused railway wagons they were shunted off the main


    48. At one point when I was exploring on my own, I looked into the kitchen of the old disused


    49. The first was the best room, and in it were Lucie's birds, and flowers, and books, and desk, and work-table, and box of water-colours; the second was the Doctor's consulting-room, used also as the dining-room; the third, changingly speckled by the rustle of the plane-tree in the yard, was the Doctor's bedroom, and there, in a corner, stood the disused shoemaker's bench and tray of tools, much as it had stood on the fifth floor of the dismal house by the wine-shop, in the suburb of Saint Antoine in Paris


    50. Through the disused graveyard in the parish of St

















    1. as long as man keeps immersed in his lusts disusing his thought, he will never bethink or be guided


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    Synonyms for "disuse"

    disuse neglect decay abandonment unemployment abolition discarding abrogation interruption shelve set aside discard give up dismantle idle

    "disuse" definitions

    the state of something that has been unused and neglected