In process of time this religious house again fell into desuetude ; but before it disappeared it had achieved a great name for good works, and in especial for the piety of its members.

Gradually, the staircase that led to the garret, and even the passage-way to the staircase, were avoided by every one in the house, from every one fearing to speak of it, and the legend was gradually falling into desuetude . It had suddenly occurred to Cassy to make use of the superstitious excitability, which was so great in Legree, for the purpose of her liberation, and that of her fellow-sufferer.

This old house had wasted--more from desuetude than it would have wasted from use, twenty years for one.

The show is presented in a couple of rooms inside a marvelously atmospheric building that reeks glamorously of desuetude . (In 21st-century Manhattan, what could be more glamorous than unused real estate?) For the first act, the audience sits in a funky assortment of chairs in a softly lit chamber that is eventually revealed to be an antique-filled bedroom populated off and on by Howard (Larry Pine); his daughter Judy (Shawn's longtime companion, writer Deborah Eisenberg); and Judy's husband, Jack (Shawn).

The director of the National Gallery in London, Nell MacGregor, says the Church of England's fall into desuetude is having some unexpected consequences.

It is not law that takes our freedom from us, it is the innocuous desuetude of our minds.

Since it's already succumbed to unmourned desuetude , maybe there's no chance of resurrecting uranian to mean (again) a man who is sexually same-minded.

The lack of care and overly partisan use of the easy amendment process inter alia have contributed to the desuetude and disdain to which these documents have fallen prey.

And in the desuetude of democracy, they don't want to see one of their few remaining levers of power--a plebiscite every four years--taken away from them because of a house-and-garden variety sin.

Later, the same organ had this to say: "The popular out-door sport of the day is unquestionably golf and the good old historian is compelled to admit to the new page the fact that the games that have been so popular in the past have settled into a state of innocuous desuetude and (the historian) is now ready to illuminate with red letters the birth of the Scottish national game at Pinehurst."

First, police and prosecutors might permit such laws to fall into desuetude for all classes of society.