"Desuetude" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... facilitating manumission,[1] many southerners emancipated their slaves to give them a better chance to improve their condition, regulations unfavorable to the assembly of Negroes for the dissemination of information almost fell into desuetude, a larger number of masters began to instruct their bondmen, and persons especially interested in these unfortunates found the objects ...
— The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 • Carter Godwin Woodson
... fellow-citizens which, under a misapprehension of his effeminacy and general uselessness, he had lost awhile. The poet is not so much a joke to the multitude as he was a few years ago, and the term "minor poet" seems to have fallen into desuetude. ...
— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne |
