Sentence examples for long disused from inspiring English sources

Though long disused, nuggets from the railway's past can still be glimpsed today.

I would imagine he'd be quite self-conscious singing in that context". There is a verse - albeit long disused - that resolves to "crush" the "rebellious Scots".

Most lived out sad tales of attempting to return too late to their profession after disastrous encounters with exploitative men, when their improperly trained or long disused voices could no longer support their reputations.

In an ancient limestone quarry, long disused and overgrown, where the thorns, stalwart and gnarled, are full of young berries, many bushes are entirely covered by the climbing honeysuckle.

I stopped to look at the long disused lamps in the window of the thrift shop next door to Marsha's, and in my ear Ishmael whispered, once again, "Do you not find a strange analogy?" Nothing would placate him but saying yes.

By Janet Flanner The New Yorker, July 22 , 1939P. 52 The most inventive and best big party was that of Mrs. Louise Macy, who hired a long disused historical mansion, the Hotel Sale, for the night, put in temporary furnishings and plumbing, a mobile kitchen, and several thousand candles, and requested her guests to war diamonds and decorations, and no nonsense about their having any.

The National Allotment Society is more sanguine, pointing out that of the 65 of 87 applications for disposal that were granted between 2010 and 2013, most were for small bits of land for access or flood alleviation, or land that had long been disused.

Within hours of this action, Islington's long-disused Moorfield primary school was demolished.

While Egyptian agents slowly processed the players' passports, Mr. Barenboim proposed an impromptu rehearsal in the long-disused waiting lounge.

"It's like one of those science fiction films where they open up the long-disused spaceship and everyone is waiting to see what's inside," said Bloom.

The volume, with an introduction by the novelist Louis Auchincloss, documented the echoing, long-disused backstairs rooms that visitors never see.