Disused

What a home! The place looked like some disused rag-store. The large unglazed window was closed up by a dilapidated shutter.

The house stood empty and disused for a long time.

The party took place in a disused warehouse out of town.

It was a country of wide pastures, of moors covered with heath, of rock-born streams and rivulets, of forest and hill and dale, sparsely inhabited, with the sea to the eastward of it, unseen, and the mountains everywhere visible always, and endlessly changing in aspect. Herdsmen and shepherds wandered over it, and along its almost disused roads pedlars and pack mules passed at times but rarely. Minerals and marbles were under its turf, but none sought for them; pools and lakes slept in it, undisturbed save by millions of water fowl and their pursuers. The ruins of temples and palaces were overgrown by its wild berries and wild flowers. The buffalo browsed where emperors had feasted, and the bittern winged its slow flight over the fields of forgotten battles.

But as time & experience do reforme euery thing that is amisse, so this bitter poeme called the old Comedy, being disused and taken away, the new Comedy came in place, more ciuill and pleasant a great deale and not touching any man by name, but in a certain generalitie glancing at euery abuse,

In Scotland the custom, now disused in England, of inviting the relations of the deceased to the interment is universally retained.

And now Love sang: but his was such a song, So meshed with half-remembrance hard to free, As souls disused in death’s sterility May sing when the new birthday tarries long.

The breath that stirred his lips he soon resigned To windy chaos, and we only find The garnered husks of his disusèd words.

The tables, for instance, were to be covered with baize, but when the patron found that baize was expensive he bought instead disused army blankets, smelling incorrigibly of sweat.

It was to assist in the filling-in of the tunnel on the disused Patricroft-Clifton Junction line, which was the scene of a disaster in 1953 when part, below some houses in Swinton, caved in.