Disused Sentence Examples

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  • This line, now disused, had itself superseded the overland route organized by Lieut.

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  • Dalkey Island, lying off the town, has an ancient ruined chapel, of the history of which nothing is certainly known, and a disused battery, which protected the harbour, a landing-place of some former importance.

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  • The town is ancient; there is a disused convent church with tombs of the 17th century, and the Vor-Frelsers-Kirke has a carved pulpit of the same period.

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  • Its public buildings include a court-house, the prison for the south-west of Scotland, and an observatory and museum, housed in a disused windmill.

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  • It was here that, on his invitation, James Watt constructed a model of his steam-engine, which was tested in a now disused colliery.

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  • Disused stone quarries in the side of the hill are used as dwellings by the inhabitants.

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  • The disused airfield is still apparent on the right.

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  • The disused quarry is on the right hand side.

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  • The Wilts and Berks canal, joining the Thames at Abingdon, is disused.

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  • The metric system is now in use in the greater part of the civilized world, but some of the measures retain the names of old disused measures.

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  • After a short briefing you set off for the disused aerodrome to complete the off-road handling skills section of the schedule.

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  • She crossed a disused railroad line tugging her cream-coloured, baby alpaca coat about her ankles.

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  • The speakers waxed lyrically about the fresh water aquatic conservation center, which they hope to bring to a disused clay pit near Bedford.

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  • Food is stored in underground burrows or occasionally in disused bird nests.

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  • Sometimes they roost in the lining of tall disused industrial chimneys and other hollow walls including cavities in bridges.

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  • This piled in either a disused silage clamp, or taken to the field and placed in the windrow.

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  • Lower than the present roof corbels are large corbels, disused, from the the 14thC roof.

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  • The few cottagers living in Wensleydale emptied their closets down a disused mine shaft.

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  • The site is a steep sided disused railroad cutting consisting of limestone grassland with scrub.

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  • You come to a bridge over the now disused Great North of Scotland railroad line, which once served all the coastal towns.

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  • The locks were abandoned in 1966, have been largely disused since 1962.

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  • A number of the playing fields, e.g. Park Avenue, are currently disused.

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  • A large kitchen, long disused linked to a strangely cool room used a s a pantry occupied one segment of the level.

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  • As shown above, the United Kingdom has an old, mostly disused blasphemy law which is rarely evoked.

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  • At Leagram Farm, Chipping, organic cheeses are now manufactured from within the confines of another once disused barn.

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  • The site had lain disused for almost 50 years, during which time a process of self-regeneration had occurred.

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  • The forge is also shown on Bowen's Map of 1778 bt the Tithe map of 1839 shows that it had become disused.

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  • Goods traffic ceased in May 1962, but like many such buildings, the shed stood disused for many years.

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  • Marischal College has been empty for some years, and is likely to remain disused indefinitely if ACC doesn't move in.

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  • A small disused dock exists where the original quayside was.

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  • The Iron Road was installed along a stretch of disused railroad embankment deep in the Forest.

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  • There are a few disused mineral extraction sites adjacent to the railroad line.

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  • The adverse impact of the cooker hood could be enhanced by the stack effect of warm effluent in the disused fluent in the disused flue.

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  • The garden demonstrated the wide variety of plant material that can become established in the seemingly inhospitable habitat of a disused railroad line.

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  • Examples include woodland clearings and rides, calcareous grassland, coastal landslips, abandoned quarries, disused railroad cuttings, and limestone pavements.

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  • The cairn is referred to as the limekiln Cairn as it is situated next to a disused limekiln.

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  • In more recent years the village was an important lead mining center and Carsington Pasture is still littered with disused lead mines.

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  • On the hills southwest of Boxmoor station is a grass common called Rough Down, on which are two disused chalk pits.

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  • In 1880 the brick roundhouse of the disused mill was converted into a Chapel of Ease to St Mary's Parish Church, Reigate.

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  • October 2001 The Boulmer Venom An account of how a Venom was force landed on one of the disused runways at Boulmer in 1953.

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  • In the immediate foreground are the now disused sidings of Blue Circle (Portland Cement ).

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  • When Pat suddenly stumbles on a disused manhole behind a washing machine, she is hopeful she has found a solution.

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  • This village, which is situated under a disused viaduct, is a true gem.

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  • Open for just over a year it occupies a disused warehouse in one of London's poorest boroughs, Hackney.

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  • From the period of the rediscovery of the catacombs in the 16th century till comparatively recent times a gigantic fallacy prevailed, repeated by writer after writer, identifying the Christian burial-places with disused sand-pits.

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  • Thus the alternative use of cope or chasuble (vestment) is allowed at the celebration of Holy Communion - an obvious compromise; of the amice, girdle (cingulum), maniple and stole there is not a word, 2 and the inference to be drawn is that these were now disused.

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  • In England, for instance, the chancels were for the most part disused after the Reformation (see Harrison, op. cit.), but presently they came into use again, and on the Catholic revival in the Church of England in the 19th century it is certain that the medieval churches exercised an influence by giving a sense of fitness, which might otherwise have been lacking, to the restoration of medieval ritual.

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  • During the couse of a year, the author walked along ten disused railroad in Britain.

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  • I sat on the ramparts of a disused castle.

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  • Baghdad and Damascus also want to reopen an oil pipeline between them, disused since 1982.

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  • In 1880 the brick roundhouse of the disused mill was converted into a Chapel of Ease to St Mary 's Parish Church, Reigate.

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  • Open for just over a year it occupies a disused warehouse in one of London 's poorest boroughs, Hackney.

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  • By way of reprisals for the Hussite outrages in Prague, the miners of Kuttenberg seized on any Hussites they could find, and burned, beheaded or threw them alive into the shafts of disused mines.

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  • At the present day the Lutheran Churches of Denmark and Scandinavia retain the use of alb and chasuble in the celebration of the eucharist (stole, amice, girdle and maniple were disused after the Reformation), and for bishops the cope and mitre.

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  • A little farther north are the ancient citadel, the walled "Arab" town and the old harbour (disused).

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  • It is an open-air museum, installed in a disused burial-ground, and is situated near the castle.

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  • The other church, the Jakobs- or Hofkirche (court church) is also ancient; its disused churchyard contains the graves of Lucas Cranach and Musaeus.

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  • There are many ancient mines in the country, disused since the close of the 18th century, if not earlier.

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  • After the cessation in 1882 of works in connexion with the Channel tunnel, to connect England and France, coal-boring was attempted in the disused shaft, west of the Shakespeare Cliff railway tunnel near Dover.

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  • There was a tendency in time of misfortune to revert to earlier rites (illustrated in some ancient mourning customs), and it may have been some old disused practice revived under the pressure of national distress.

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  • Hills to the north of the town contain disused coal-mines which have been on fire for centuries.

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  • He built a new and handsome palace at Drogheda, and he repaired the old disused palace at Armagh and bestowed on it a demesne of 300 acres.

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  • The attempt to secure these thrones for the Hohenzollerns through this marriage failed, and a similar fate befell Albert's efforts to revive in his own favour the disused title of duke of Franconia.

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  • Since 1882 there has been a Slav majority in the diet, and Italian has been disused in the proceedings of that body.

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  • The act of 1894, as we have seen, not only established the Local Government Board, consisting of the secretary for Scotland, the solicitor-general, the under-secretary and three appointed members - a vice-president, a lawyer and a medical officer of public health - but also replaced the parochial boards by parish councils, empowered to deal among other things with poor relief, lunacy, vaccination, libraries, baths, recreation grounds, disused churchyards, rights of way, parochial endowments, and the formation of special lighting and scavenging districts.

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  • Gilding, stains and lacquers, electro-plating, chasing, "matting," frosting, burnishing, mechanically produced mouldings and enrichments, and the other processes esteemed in the 10th century, are disused and avoided.

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  • And they differ chiefly in this, that the less common combinations of the earlier period were disused altogether in the later.

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  • From this time forward he disused his Hebrew name of Baruch, adopting instead the Latin equivalent, Benedictus.

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  • The town possesses 103 acres of parks and open spaces, the chief being Llewelyn Park of 42 acres in the north of the town near Morriston, Victoria Park (16 acres) and recreation ground (8 acres) abutting on the sands in the west, with the privately owned football field between them, Cwmdonkin (13 acres) commanding a fine panoramic view of the bay, and Brynmill (9 acres) with a disused reservoir constructed in 1837 and now converted into an ornamental lake.

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  • The phenomena of memory, as to both persons and places, is strong in animals, as is manifest by their recognition of their masters, and their returning at once to habits of which, though disused for many years, their brain has not lost the stored-up impressions.

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  • Baptism were better disused, though Faustus will leave the matter to each Christian man's discretion.

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  • As the country districts could yield nothing more, it became necessary to demand money from the Parisians and from the citizens of the various towns, and to search out and furbish up old disused edictsedicts as to measures and scales of pricesat the very moment when the luxury and corruption of the parvenus was insulting the poverty and suffering of the people, and exasperating all those officials who took their functions seriously.

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  • Clausthal has a famous mining college with a mineralogical museum, and a disused mint.

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  • Some of the achievements include converting disused allotments in East Oxford into a Nature Park.

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  • The play was performed at a disused jam factory in Bermondsey.

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  • Its long subjection to Turkey has left little trace of antiquity, and the most striking features in the general view are the minarets of the disused mosques (only four are now in use) and the Mahommedan burying-grounds.

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  • Behind the cathedral is a disused cemetery with a chapel, where the Christian slaves are supposed to have worshipped.

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