It gradually dwindled down to a second-rate factory, and in consequence of the great annual expense it was discontinued in 1864.
It was carried on for a few years, but no market being found for the ware, the factory was discontinued at the commencement of the last century.
From 1790 the fayence au feu de reverbere was largely discontinued on account of its expensive character and the introduction of English ware at a lower price; but still, both descriptions were occasionally made.
Soft paste, which has been discontinuedfor many years in every other fabrique in France, is still made at both places, and they consequently produce the closest imitations of old Sevres pate tendre.
The auction was discontinued in Christian times, but marriage contracts still partook of the form of a public and half-mercantile transaction.
I discontinued the auction sales early in my farming, preferring to take the risks myself, and having plenty of labour available.
Le Temps, one of the best of the Paris papers, after having been discontinued for some years, was revived in 1861 by M.
Marcy, a physician of Hartford, suggested to him to try as a substitute for gas; but Wells, finding it more difficult to administer, discontinued it and confined himself to the use of nitrous oxide.
This mode of punishment was discontinued in the reign of George III.
Private nurseries and State game and forestry departments are now growing these chestnuts and the Division of Forest Pathology has discontinued general distribution of trees to cooperators.
All in all, however, the Persian walnut was not particularly dependable, and during the last few years the nursery which he left discontinued selling Persian walnut trees.
There have been some discontinued memberships, as will happen almost every year in any organization, but the new members have more than compensated for them, in numbers.
The limited work on this disease was discontinued because of the war and the transfer of Mr. Crandall to Peru.
Most planters have long since discontinued using this variety.
They walked and drove about the island, and it was like taking up again a long-discontinued book and reading another chapter of the same tale.
Why the play wasdiscontinued is not altogether apparent; certainly many a dramatic enterprise has gone further, faring worse.
In Dresden, whither Rietz went in 1860 as Court Kapellmeister, he almost entirely discontinued performing.
An Historical Inquiry respecting the performance on the Harp in the Highlands of Scotland from the earliest times until it was discontinued about the year 1734.
Perceiving that the subject gave him pain, they discontinued allusion to the lady in question, further than to inquire how she was to be disposed of, and whether she was to remain in attendance on her uncle.
Each moment brought the crisis of action nearer: the rowers had discontinued their oars, but the bows of the several boats could be heard obeying the impetus already given them, and dividing the water close to the vessel.
As if by tacit consent, both parties discontinued the struggle, and became mere spectators of the scene.
Even the usage of the ancient Macedonians, that every person who had not killed an enemy should wear some disgraceful badge, had been discontinued in the time of Aristotle.
French Hoods, Bibs, and Gorgets, werediscontinued by the Queen of Charles I.
To the regret of the beaux and belles of the neighbourhood the "route" was discontinued in 1789, and has never since been revived.
This practice was discontinued during the cold months, as it was feared that a very high consumption of water might occur at the time of low water in the reservoirs, and so cause a partial famine.
As soon as this "tip" was communicated to Germany, submarines discontinued the use of oil for lubrication, employing instead deflocculated graphite.
France has definitelydiscontinued the use of monoplanes and is manufacturing them solely for the British forces, as some of the British aviators greatly prefer the monoplane.
This dreadful mark of submission to military power was universally refused by every British subject, and has been very much discontinued even by the Portugueze.
In crop time, the work is only discontinued on Sundays and holidays; and, as is practised on board vessels at sea, the negroes relieve each other at stated hours.
But the methods of the leader were not approved and so the trustees after investigation discontinued the meetings.
Only British law prevents widows from being burned with their dead husbands, though even in the Vedic age the custom had been discontinued as barbarous.
The old practice of reciting the scriptures was not discontinued but no objection was made to preserving and reading them in written copies.
They have long discontinued the custom, but still hold the trust, and although the testator has now lain 150 years in his unfastened coffin, he has not come forth yet to rectify this direliction of duty on the part of the Drapers.
