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  • ...in this era of planned obsolescence, when a thing breaks down I can usually find something in my collection to repair it—a toilet, or a motor, or a, lawn mower.   (source)
    obsolescence = no longer in general use because it was replaced by something better
  • Then he went on: 'What I had really intended to say was that in your article I noticed you had used two words which have become obsolete.'   (source)
    obsolete = replaced with something better
  • Wang subconsciously thought of her as the long-obsolete DOS operating system: a blank, black screen, a bare "C:\>" prompt, a blinking cursor.†   (source)
  • I particularly enjoyed your description of me as an obsolete dingbat.†   (source)
  • "Your experience is obsolete," she fired back, equally tough.†   (source)
  • She thought timing belts hadn't been used since internal combustion had become obsolete.†   (source)
  • He's on the thin side, balding, an accountant before the attacks made accounting obsolete.†   (source)
  • The trees held their protecting shadow right up to the walls of the house that rose among them, making obsolete the deep porch that wrapped around the first story.†   (source)
  • For reasons he cannot explain or necessarily understand, these ancient Puritan spirits, these very first immigrants to America, these bearers of unthinkable, obsolete names, have spoken to him, so much so that in spite of his mother's disgust he refuses to throw the rubbings away.†   (source)
  • Critics claimed the fair extinguished the Chicago School of architecture, an indigenous vernacular, and replaced it with a renewed devotion to obsolete classical styles.†   (source)
  • He had stuck his hand through some rotted flashing in high summer and that hand and his whole arm had been consumed in holy, righteous fire, destroying conscious thought, making the concept of civilized behavior obsolete.†   (source)
  • This made paper charts obsolete, though they were kept anyway.†   (source)
  • In assuming that it was very tall, you are relying on an obsolete reading.†   (source)
  • This rare broadside celebrated the news but became obsolete less than two weeks later when Lincoln was assassinated.†   (source)
  • They were old and completely obsolete.†   (source)
  • This storage room is for obsolete experiments—failures, or outdated developments, or useless things.†   (source)
  • And now Annie realized that in her deliberation she'd resorted to that old self-shielding habit of hers and rationalized it: of course children were upset by these things, she'd told herself, it was inevitable; but if it was done in a civilized, sensitive way there need be no lasting trauma; neither parent was lost, only some obsolete geography.†   (source)
  • Carhops were rendered obsolete by various remote-control ordering systems, like the Fone-A-Chef, the Teletray, and the ElectroHop.†   (source)
  • That situation is now obsolete, they say, and so is that provision.†   (source)
  • In the next fifteen minutes, we had equally fascinating discussions about genetic engineering, global warming, the possibility of books being completely obsolete in a few years because of computers, and the arrival at the local zoo of a new family of exotic, nearly extinct Australian birds.†   (source)
  • So far as he was concerned, the invention of the Colt revolver had rendered all other short-range weapons obsolete.†   (source)
  • The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at it as merely an obsolete prejudice.†   (source)
  • You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions.†   (source)
  • I put it in a box with my baseball glove—my knees were shot by now—and some other pieces of my pleasant, obsolete past, and gave them to my momma for safekeeping.†   (source)
  • "To begin, Omega will vanquish an obsolete but somewhat successful human-avian hybrid," said the Director.†   (source)
  • I was loud, weird, and obsolete.†   (source)
  • Men like me and my brother are obsolete and we've got to go, but it's a pity we'll carry with us the meaningful things of this society—there were some good things in it.†   (source)
  • We listened to these teenagers talking, as they flipped through the once-obsolete vinyl LPs the genre has made essential again.†   (source)
  • Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road — old buildings, old people on a front porch — strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff.†   (source)
  • southern congressmen and bowed and nodded as they passed like senile old roosters in a barnyard; the younger crowd for whom I now felt a contempt such as only a disillusioned dreamer feels for those still unaware that they dream-the business students from southern colleges, for whom business was a vague, abstract game with rules as obsolete as Noah's Ark but who yet were drunk on finance.†   (source)
  • You're the darling of the royalists, my unprofound fellow, and you'd force the average citizen to live in a nation where privacy is obsolete, free thought suspended by censorship, the rich get richer, and for the poorest among us the beginnings of potential life itself may well have to be abandoned in order to survive.†   (source)
  • Gentleman member from Argentina—never given their names; we weren't socially acceptable—this Argentino objected to phrase "former Warden" in Prof's speech; that designation had been obsolete half a century; he insisted that it be struck out and proper title inserted: "Protector of the Lunar Colonies by Appointment of the Lunar Authority."†   (source)
  • Someday, the typewriter will be obsolete, antique.†   (source)
  • Nobody will push us out of business or steal our markets or undersell us or make us obsolete.†   (source)
  • Decrepitude, obsolescence.†   (source)
  • Significantly, all of these pretty decorations were obsolete and anachronistic when placed in reverent perpetuity on campus.†   (source)
  • Yet in this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: It must make fundamental changes, or it will become obsolete.†   (source)
  • Leaving no tip—he never left tips except to impress—he carried his restaurant check to the ornate, ostentatiously large black cash-register, long obsolete but still very grand, counted out the exact change, and went out to the street without a word.†   (source)
  • There were too many brilliant amateurs, and the changed economic conditions had made the old system obsolete.†   (source)
  • The rules of Clausewitz, Mahan, all of them were obsolete as the Code Duello.†   (source)
  • Similar radical views were advanced by the nihilists of the last century, and a little later by some of Dostoievsky's heroes, and still more recently by their direct descendants, the provincial educated classes, who were often ahead of the capitals because they still were in the habit of going to the root of things while in the capitals such an approach was regarded as obsolete and unfashionable.†   (source)
  • Century also had shelves of obsolete printed books.†   (source)
  • But we learned a lot of "obsolete" weapons, too.   (source)
    obsolete = no longer in general use because it was replaced by something better
  • She fit into Avilion very well — into its obsolete Victorian splendours, its air of aesthetic decay, of departed grace, of wan regret.   (source)
    obsolete = old-fashioned
  • [speaking of the word love] "Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete," his mother explained carefully.   (source)
    obsolete = no longer in use
  • A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete.   (source)
    obsolete = outdated (old-fashioned, and replaced with something better)
  • The Eleventh Edition won't contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050.   (source)
  • Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed. A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labour that would build several hundred cargo-ships. Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labours another Floating Fortress is built.   (source)
  • It was obsolete by then, you couldn't buy anything with it.†   (source)
  • The church investing in research that threatened to make the church obsolete?†   (source)
  • His entire head is becoming one big stash of obsolete fridge magnets.†   (source)
  • I use the word "enjoy" in two distinct senses, precluding, of course, the obsolete third.†   (source)
  • The more obsolete a book was, the more eagerly Jimmy would add it to his inner collection.†   (source)
  • Conclave judicature is extremely complex, and much of it is now forgotten or ignored as obsolete.†   (source)
  • "Are we obsolete?" the camerlegno asked.†   (source)
  • Your vocation will soon be obsolete, I think.†   (source)
  • 'I do recall,' the tour guide said in obsolete French.†   (source)
  • That word, plastered, on the brink of obsolescence, indicates to me what sort of an event that was.†   (source)
  • I don't feel obsolete and us apes can do things that the fanciest ship cannot.†   (source)
  • I shut the door firmly behind me but did not touch the obsolete locks.†   (source)
  • The real Navy opinion is even more extreme: The Army is obsolete and should be abolished.†   (source)
  • A functionless organ, utterly obsolete, living on the taxpayers.†   (source)
  • Maybe I'm as obsolete as Tyrannosaurus Rex.†   (source)
  • Yes, I do, despite propaganda all through school about how patriotism is obsolete.†   (source)
  • "Conelrad," Mark had said, "is as obsolete as the B-two-nine.†   (source)
  • We dug up obsolete convention weapons and insults to hurl back and forth.†   (source)
  • He forged a religion designed to last, not predigested obsolescence.†   (source)
  • Then he'd stay up too late, and once in bed he'd stare at the ceiling, telling over his lists of obsolete words for the comfort that was in them.†   (source)
  • As Emeline became more accustomed to her "wheel," a term everyone still used even though the old and deadly huge-wheeled bicycles of the past had become thoroughly obsolete, she and Holmes took longer and longer rides and often rode along the willowed Midway to Jackson Park to watch the construction of the world's fair, where inevitably they found themselves among thousands of other people, many of them also bicyclists.†   (source)
  • It never occurred to him that this piece of equipment was a near copy of an obsolete American FM system.†   (source)
  • Almost all communication was done through the net—direct communication that bypassed the net entirely was practically obsolete, as it was slow and had a tendency to lose connection in the middle of a link.†   (source)
  • S-S-So I th-th-think we have to say that the fuh-fuh-facts in the c-case Mr. D-D-D-Dorsky cites are ren-ren-rendered obsolete by the ruh-recent duh-duhdecision handed down inin-in ...†   (source)
  • Within this footlocker, which was sealed with tape of the kind once used on packages to be sent by post, were approximately thirty tape cassettes, of the type that became obsolete sometime in the eighties or nineties with the advent of the compact disc.†   (source)
  • He has the feeling he's quoting from a book, some obsolete, ponderous directive written in aid of European colonials running plantations of one kind or another.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, because the outcome of conclave was usually known before it began, the process was criticized as obsolete-more of a burlesque than an election.†   (source)
  • God has become obsolete.†   (source)
  • Absolutely nothing had changed, except that someone had set a cardboard box of wastepaper inside the door: the desk, the office chair, the wastepaper basket, one (empty) bookshelf, and an obsolete Dell PC with a pitifully small hard drive.†   (source)
  • Now we're obsolete.†   (source)
  • It may be tempting to dismiss Conway's Red Top as a holdover from an earlier era, a business whose low-tech methods are quaint but obsolete.†   (source)
  • One that was nearly obsolete.†   (source)
  • The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation.†   (source)
  • He sat up straight, buttressed by the columns of paragraphs on yellow-tinged paper, which he was seeing in his mind: "At a time of crucial public need, are we to waste social effort on the manufacture of obsolete products?†   (source)
  • There are pyramids of imported chocolates, an ice cream counter, aisles and aisles of fancy cookies and canned gourmet food, ticking away like little clocks toward the obsolescence dates stamped on their packages.†   (source)
  • What's the point in a whole lot of men risking their lives with obsolete weapons when one professor type can do so much more just by pushing a button?†   (source)
  • The stiffness of the Old Man's back—exaggerated in the faded photograph which hung, thoroughly inconspicuous, centered above faded, obsolete world maps and a 1937 chart of the kings and chief ministers of the sundry nations, behind Hodge's desk—was an effect merely of time and place: a matter of style†   (source)
  • It's so strange that these people who once liberated mankind from the yoke of idolatry, and so many of whom now devote themselves to its liberation from injustice, should be incapable of liberating themselves from their loyalty to an obsolete, antediluvian identity that has lost all meaning, that they should not rise above themselves and dissolve among all the rest whose religion they have founded and who would be so close to them, if they knew them better.†   (source)
  • War itself was obsolete.†   (source)
  • Machinery has fallen into disrepair or is entirely obsolete.†   (source)
  • Before Lincoln took office the issues upon which he was elected had become obsolete.†   (source)
  • A crossword puzzle gave the definition of "obsolescent individuals" and the word came out as "capitalists."†   (source)
  • To begin with, it has nothing to do with archaism, with the salvaging of obsolete words and turns of speech, or with the setting-up of a "standard-English" which must never be departed from.†   (source)
  • The bookcases of Victorian oak held volumes of Hansard and obsolete encyclopedias that were never opened; the bare mahogany table seemed set for the meeting of a committee; the place had the air of being both public and unfrequented; outside lay the forecourt, the railings, the quiet cul-de-sac.†   (source)
  • been generals, who were generals not through training in contemporary methods or aptitude for learning them, but by the divine right to say 'Go there' conferred upon them by an absolute caste system; or because the generals of it never lived long enough to learn how to fight massed cautious accretionary battles, since they were already as obsolete as Richard or Roland or du Guesclin, who wore plumes and cloaks lined with scarlet at twenty-eight and thirty and thirty-two and captured warships with cavalry charges but no grain nor meat nor bullets, who would whip three separate armies in as many days and then tear down their own fences to cook meat robbed from their own smokehouses, who o†   (source)
  • As I leant against the wall the University indeed seemed a sanctuary in which are preserved rare types which would soon be obsolete if left to fight for existence on the pavement of the Strand.†   (source)
  • That it's obsolete.†   (source)
  • Some day these dull market-towns may be as obsolete as monasteries.†   (source)
  • What a moldy, obsolete practice burial was!†   (source)
  • Gentility is mean, and gentilesse[378] is obsolete.†   (source)
  • In English: 'He is highly obsolete, I think, to indulge in such supersteetion.†   (source)
  • These utterly obsolete personages were served by domestics of the same stamp.†   (source)
  • This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday.†   (source)
  • It was an obsolete thing, and few cared to study it.†   (source)
  • From the viewpoint of the outside world, time had made Hans Lorenz Castorp's character and convictions obsolete long before his passing.†   (source)
  • But as ashore, knightly valor, tho' shorn of its blazonry, did not cease with the knights, neither on the seas, though nowadays in encounters there a certain kind of displayed gallantry be fallen out of date as hardly applicable under changed circumstances, did the nobler qualities of such naval magnates as Don John of Austria, Doria, Van Tromp, Jean Bart, the long line of British Admirals and the American Decaturs of 1812 become obsolete with their wooden walls.†   (source)
  • As for Balbec, it was one of those names in which, as on an old piece of Norman pottery that still keeps the colour of the earth from which it was fashioned, one sees depicted still the representation of some long-abolished custom, of some feudal right, of the former condition of some place, of an obsolete way of pronouncing the language, which had shaped and wedded its incongruous syllables and which I never doubted that I should find spoken there at once, even by the inn-keeper who would pour me out coffee and milk on my arrival, taking me down to watch the turbulent sea, unchained, before the church; to whom I lent the aspect, disputatious†   (source)
  • He had formed a style for himself by a close imitation of Sir Thomas Browne; he used elaborate sentences, carefully balanced, and obsolete, resplendent words: it gave his writing an appearance of individuality.†   (source)
  • From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory's enchanting book, and fed at its rich feast of prodigies and adventures, breathed in the fragrance of its obsolete names, and dreamed again.†   (source)
  • [stupended] My ideas obsolete   (source)
  • The unhappy-looking figure in the obsolete silk hat passed up the street of the little village with his burdens, and vanished into the gathering darkness beyond the lights of the windows.†   (source)
  • It scraps its obsolete steam engines and dynamos; but it won't scrap its old prejudices and its old moralities and its old religions and its old political constitutions.†   (source)
  • He told me one day that you were to be Ann's guardian; and like a fool I began arguing with him about the folly of leaving a young woman under the control of an old man with obsolete ideas.†   (source)
  • He caught himself nodding, now, and smiled one of those pathetic, obsolete smiles of his, and said: "I find I can't go on; but come with me, I've got it all written out, and you can read it if you like."†   (source)
  • Across the crest runs a platform of concrete, with a parapet which suggests a fortification, because there is a huge cannon of the obsolete Woolwich Infant pattern peering across it at the town.†   (source)
  • And it had, though no man had traced it, invariably ended its mysterious flight in the pocket of that agitated gentleman in the obsolete silk hat, sitting outside the little inn on the outskirts of Port Stowe.†   (source)
  • We are seriously concerned that the term may be misunderstood, be associated with undignified and outdated notions, with an obsolete model that in no way does justice to the reality we envision here, the product of untiring advances in musical technology, developed to elegant perfection.†   (source)
  • And since what we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real, education, as you no doubt observed at Oxford, destroys, by supplantation, every mind that is not strong enough to see through the imposture and to use the great Masters of Arts as what they really are and no more: that is, patentees of highly questionable methods of thinking, and manufacturers of highly questionable, and for the majority but half valid representations of life.†   (source)
  • And since the adjective "stunning" had been used for "splendid" or "excellent" for quite some time now—was totally washed out, enervated, prostituted, and therefore obsolete—she had of late seized upon the word "devastating," and now found everything "devastating," whether in earnest or in jest: the bobsled run, their dessert dumplings, and her own body warmth, which sounded equally repulsive coming from her.†   (source)
  • Really he is that obsolescent phenomenon the fool of the family dumped on the Church by his father the patron, clamorously asserting himself as father and clergyman without being able to command respect in either capacity.]†   (source)
  • Still, there will be a connection with the long past—a reference to forgotten events and personages, and to manners, feelings, and opinions, almost or wholly obsolete—which, if adequately translated to the reader, would serve to illustrate how much of old material goes to make up the freshest novelty of human life.†   (source)
  • But as the said time has fully expired, I presume it fair to infer that the bargain may now be said to be obsolete.†   (source)
  • Heavy, broad-backed, old-fashioned, mahoganyand-horsehair chairs, not easily lifted; obsolete tables with spindle-legs and dusty baize covers; presentation prints of the holders of great titles in the last generation or the last but one, environ him.†   (source)
  • When his knock at the bright brass knocker of obsolete shape brought a woman-servant to the door, those faded scents in truth saluted him like wintry breath that had a faint remembrance in it of the bygone spring.†   (source)
  • Wickfield is, I dare say, a man of very excellent intentions; but he is — in short, he is obsolete.'†   (source)
  • But I omit them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing.†   (source)
  • Such arrangements as the one Elizabeth proposed were not uncommon in country villages; but, though Casterbridge was old-fashioned, the custom was well-nigh obsolete here.†   (source)
  • She walked briskly in the brisk air, the color rose in her cheeks, and her straw bonnet (which our contemporaries might look at with conjectural curiosity as at an obsolete form of basket) fell a little backward.†   (source)
  • "It left me also in the dark," replied Legrand, "for a few days; during which I made diligent inquiry, in the neighborhood of Sullivan's Island, for any building which went by the name of the 'Bishop's Hotel;' for, of course, I dropped the obsolete word 'hostel.'†   (source)
  • The ear of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is not all that it bears.†   (source)
  • His language must not be exclusively obsolete and unintelligible; but he should admit, if possible, no word or turn of phraseology betraying an origin directly modern.†   (source)
  • I must remind you again that Adam had the blood of the peasant in his veins, and that since he was in his prime half a century ago, you must expect some of his characteristics to be obsolete.†   (source)
  • Around them, on every part of the deck, lay scattered mathematical instruments of the most quaint and obsolete construction.†   (source)
  • But this custom has now become obsolete; turn we then to the one proper mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea.†   (source)
  • The cabin floor was thickly strewn with strange, iron-clasped folios, and mouldering instruments of science, and obsolete long-forgotten charts.†   (source)
  • There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house.†   (source)
  • In 1832, the word bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent service.†   (source)
  • Passing, now the mouldy hall of some obsolete Worshipful Company, now the illuminated windows of a Congregationless Church that seemed to be waiting for some adventurous Belzoni to dig it out and discover its history; passing silent warehouses and wharves, and here and there a narrow alley leading to the river, where a wretched little bill, FOUND DROWNED, was weeping on the wet wall; he came at last to the house he sought.†   (source)
  • In this manner, a man of talent, and of great antiquarian erudition, limited the popularity of his work, by excluding from it every thing which was not sufficiently obsolete to be altogether forgotten and unintelligible.†   (source)
  • But she is a little dreaded elsewhere in consequence of an indiscreet profusion in the article of rouge and persistency in an obsolete pearl necklace like a rosary of little bird's-eggs.†   (source)
  • Complicated garnish of iron-work entwines itself over the flights of steps in this awful street, and from these petrified bowers, extinguishers for obsolete flambeaux gasp at the upstart gas.†   (source)
  • It's a little out-of-the-way place, where they administer what is called ecclesiastical law, and play all kinds of tricks with obsolete old monsters of acts of Parliament, which three-fourths of the world know nothing about, and the other fourth supposes to have been dug up, in a fossil state, in the days of the Edwards.†   (source)
  • He is a curious, interesting, and nearly perished link between obsolete forms of life and those which generally prevail.†   (source)
  • But if some intelligent and accomplished friend points out to him, that the difficulties by which he is startled are more in appearance than reality, if, by reading aloud to him, or by reducing the ordinary words to the modern orthography, he satisfies his proselyte that only about one-tenth part of the words employed are in fact obsolete, the novice may be easily persuaded to approach the "well of English undefiled," with the certainty that a slender degree of patience will enable him to to enjoy both the humour and the pathos with which old Geoffrey delighted the age of Cressy and of Poictiers.†   (source)
  • If I had not guessed this, on the way to the coffee-house, I could hardly have failed to know what was the matter when I followed him into an upstairs room, and found Miss Murdstone there, supported by a background of sideboard, on which were several inverted tumblers sustaining lemons, and two of those extraordinary boxes, all corners and flutings, for sticking knives and forks in, which, happily for mankind, are now obsolete.†   (source)
  • He who first opens Chaucer, or any other ancient poet, is so much struck with the obsolete spelling, multiplied consonants, and antiquated appearance of the language, that he is apt to lay the work down in despair, as encrusted too deep with the rust of antiquity, to permit his judging of its merits or tasting its beauties.†   (source)
  • If our neophyte, strong in the new-born love of antiquity, were to undertake to imitate what he had learnt to admire, it must be allowed he would act very injudiciously, if he were to select from the Glossary the obsolete words which it contains, and employ those exclusively of all phrases and vocables retained in modern days.†   (source)
  • But with this, neither the author nor the public have any other concern than as some observation is necessary upon those parts of the work which thirteen years have made comparatively obsolete.†   (source)
  • It was handwritten in a mixture of archaic French, and even more obsolete Latin, but I could make out the title.†   (source)
  • Soon the world we had known and the values we had lived by in that world would become so obsolete that we would seem to Americans of the new age as quaint as travelers from an antique land.†   (source)
  • Yes, rendering obsolete popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard, catapults.†   (source)
  • Others, which have long been obsolete in England, are still retained in common use among us.†   (source)
  • /Flap-jack/ goes back to Piers Plowman, but has been obsolete in England for two centuries.†   (source)
  • Obsolete English words still in good use in America.†   (source)
  • Genuine English words, obsolete or provincial in England, and universally used in the United States.†   (source)
  • [10] A long list of such obsolete Americanisms is given by Clapin in his Dictionary†   (source)
  • e./, old English words, obsolete, or nearly so, in England, but retained in use in this country.†   (source)
  • being a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws and regulations, all resuscitators (by trespass and petty larceny of kindlings) of venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all orotund instigators of international persecution, all perpetuators of international animosities, all menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all recalcitrant violators of domestic connubiality.†   (source)
  • years, the messuage to consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets), thermometer affixed, 1 sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servants' rooms, tiled kitchen with close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses, fumed oak sectional bookcase containing the Encyclopaedia Britannica and New Century Dictionary, transverse obsolete medieval and oriental weapons, dinner gong, alabaster lamp, bowl pendant, vulcanite automatic telephone receiver with adjacent directory, handtufted Axminster carpet with cream ground and trellis border, loo table with pillar and claw legs, hearth with massive firebrasses and ormolu mantel chronometer clock, guaranteed timekeeper with cathedra†   (source)
  • By inserting the barrel of an arruginated male key in the hole of an unstable female lock, obtaining a purchase on the bow of the key and turning its wards from right to left, withdrawing a bolt from its staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and revealing an aperture for free egress and free ingress.†   (source)
  • a. Words and phrases become obsolete in England, as /talented/, /offset/ (for /set-off/), /back and forth/ (for /backward and forward/).†   (source)
  • /Muss/, in the sense of a row, is also obsolete over there, but it is to be found in "Anthony and Cleopatra."†   (source)
  • A very large number of words and phrases, many of them now exclusively American, are similar survivals from the English of the seventeenth century, long since obsolete or merely provincial in England.†   (source)
  • Forms of speech now obsolete or provincial in England, which survive in the United States, such as /allow/, /bureau/, /fall/, /gotten/, /guess/, /likely/, /professor/, /shoat/.†   (source)
  • In the latter the verb /sing/ has but eight forms, and of these three are entirely obsolete, one is obsolescent, and two more may be dropped out without damage to comprehension.†   (source)
  • [39] J. O. Halliwell (Phillips): A Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms, Containing Words now Obsolete in England All of Which are Familiar and in Common Use in America, 2nd ed.; London, 1850†   (source)
  • [37] The result of this isolation, on the one hand, was that proliferation of the colonial speech which I have briefly reviewed, and on the other hand, the preservation of many words and phrases that gradually became obsolete in England†   (source)
  • In the latter the verb /sing/ has but eight forms, and of these three are entirely obsolete, one is obsolescent, and two more may be dropped out without damage to comprehension.†   (source)
  • The first consisted of English words rescued from obsolescence or changed in meaning, the second of compounds manufactured of the common materials of the mother tongue, and the third of entirely new inventions.†   (source)
  • [51] /Boulevard/, /drive/ and /speedway/ are almost [Pg300] unknown to the English, but they use /road/ for urban thoroughfares, which is very seldom done in America, and they also make free use of /place/, /walk/, /passage/, /lane/ and /circus/, all of which are obsolescent on this side of the ocean†   (source)
  • Lap, in the old obsolete language, signifies high; and untuh, a governor; from which they say, by corruption, was derived Laputa, from Lapuntuh.†   (source)
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