One peculiarly interesting document is the Announcement against Drunkenness, which seems to have been for so many centuries a national vice, and then to have practically disappeared as such.
Certain remnants of the Miocene flora which have disappeared from Europe are still conspicuous and similar in North America and China.
Again, all consonantal endings in t and k, such as survive in Cantonese and other dialects, have entirely disappeared from Pekingese, and n and ng are the only final consonants remaining.
In the script of other countries they were gradually transformed into hieroglyphic symbols, after which they either disappeared altogether or became further conventionalized into the letters of an alphabet.
But the harvest of converts was insignificant; the religion failed to hold its ground, and in the 9th century disappeared altogether.
In the 11th century the even tone was divided into upper and lower, and a little later the entering tone finally disappeared from Pekingese.
In 419 the Eastern Tsin dynasty came to an end, and with it disappeared for nearly two hundred years all semblance of united authority.
Satan Laczi looked after the coach until it disappeared around a turn in the road.
In the hall he encountered the little Laczko, who, at sight of the visitor, dropped the boot and brush he held in his hands, and disappeared through a door at the end of the hall.
When Marie rose from her knees, the painful smile had vanished from Henry's lips; his face was calm and peaceful; the distortion had disappeared from his countenance.
Lisette was beside herself with terror at the danger which threatened Marie; but before she could utter another word, the young girl and her little escort haddisappeared down the corridor.
The opposite ravine, which runs towards the Porte Bourbonnoux, has disappeared under the successive fillings up composing the soil of the garden of the archbishop's palace.
The fosse which enclosed camp I towards the side of the Brenne has disappeared by the inundations of the river.
Had it been otherwise, when he disappeared all would have returned to order; on the contrary, his death gave up the whole universe to all the horrors of war.
The endowment, like most other endowments of this nature, disappeared soon after the death of the founder.
So saying, the goddess disappeared and the king returned to his own capital.
The figure he had shown on that eventful night disappeared as if swallowed by a trap.
In the same moment of time that she disappeared from Archie, there opened before Kirstie's eyes the cup-like hollow in which the farm lay.
Young men of high and gallant spirit, who bore the old names of New York, had disappeared without a line of publicity--to be heard of later as members of the already famous Escadrille or as ambulance workers on the Western front.
The small, eel-like Japanese murmured sibilantly anddisappeared into the bathroom.
Then they all came slowly forward, and disappeared under the rim of the bastion.
When the beacons disappeared he knew that he had made a little more than half the distance.
The next moment he was gone, and with him had disappeared the food supply and Yelm Jim's musket.
Stratton stood watching her down the trail; when shedisappeared he moved to the edge of the cliff and waited for a final glimpse of her, far below in the canyon.
He was encouraged by shouts and laughter as the pink dress appeared and disappeared among the trees.
It disappeared as if a blast of the night wind, entering the room, had dried it, crumbled it, and blown it away.
A right-handed man, he turned, as Lanyard had foreseen, to the right, and momentarily disappeared in the recess of the farther window.
Then several persons moved toward the accommodation ladder, climbed it, disappeared through the cargo port.
I touched it with my stick, when the pot-handle drew itself out of loop shape and slowly disappeared under some dead furze, showing the blunt tail of a blindworm.
Overlaid with notes, and analyses, and critical exegesis, the original throb of the author's heart has disappeared from these polished bones.
We have no narrowing buffalo zone to lament, for our buffalo zone disappeared long ago.
The magpie is one of the birds which have partly disappeared from the fields of England.
So the woman with the big nose, taking the needle and thimble, sat down, and in a short time had made all the silk into shirts and disappeared again.
They sank so rapidly that at the moment their feet touched the rock the sun shone only like a star, and at last disappeared like the last spark in a piece of burned paper.
The sun having disappeared from the horizon he was about to pursue his journey, when he heard a sound behind him among the leaves, as of a multitude of little footsteps trampling the grass in tune to the music of a flute and cymbals.
As soon as the sun had disappearedunder the water, the feathers of the swans fell off, and eleven beautiful princes, Eliza's brothers, stood near her.
Then he fetched a sack of pearls that lay among the rushes, and without saying another word he dragged it away and disappeared behind a stone.
With these words he swung the bag over his back and disappeared without as much as looking at the children again.
Drak disappeared without answering; and Michael, after taking leave of Tambourinet, mounted his horse again.
The moment she presented it, however, the old woman disappeared and was replaced by a beautiful lady who said to the mother: "I am about to recompense your two daughters according to their deserts.
But when the dance was ended she disappeared again so quickly that the King could not see which way she went.
We again looked towards the rising sun, and up over the eastern hills came another immense flock, calling to each other as the first, and they too disappeared behind the western hills.
Then they disappeared into the dining-room, which was on the ground floor, and shut the door after them.
Send Miss Hope in to me when she comes, Babs,' he said, and disappeared through the farther door.
No limit was fixed to the amount of the individual contributions from novitiate nuns, and many of the wealthiest women of Havana society have disappeared from the social world, within its walls.
Again it disappeared among the wilderness of bramble, but when one looked for its continuation, its glistening, not directly downward, but many yards to one side, gave one a glad surprise.
She watched him as the mother of an only son watches him; and when he had disappeared and she heard him start the engine of his motor, she laid down her magazine and sighed.
The train by this time was approaching Humboldt, and the lady arose and disappeared before the astonished detective could tender his thanks for the warning.
My two operatives disappeared from Baltimore immediately after this occurrence, as well they might, for of course the suspicion of the defeated conspirators fastened upon them at once.
It will be remembered that on the night that the secret meeting was disturbed, Webster managed in some unaccountable manner to escape, and that he had disappeared almost immediately afterwards.
Again came the warning voice, and again I hastily descended, and as the retreating figures disappearedin the distance, I could hear the front door open and the step of the traitor Captain above me.
Then, before the lookers-on could scarcely realize what had taken place, he leaped over the form of the prostrate man, and disappeared in the darkness of the wood.
The canoes soon afterdisappeared in the direction of the shore.
The eyes of Captain Godfrey followed the Red man to the shore and watched him until he disappeared among the trees on the river bank.
As Margaret stepped from the little bark to the shore, a large grey snake passed athwart her pathway and disappeared into a hole at the roots of a tree.
The sun had disappeared inside of that monster that filled the horizon.
One after the other he sketched all the girls, then he caught them in several groups, but at last they disappeared behind the palace, going down toward the Caño Gordo.
The cab disappeared in the direction of Madrid, up hill along an avenue that was lost in the distance behind an arch of dry branches.
Several couples passed slowly, arm in arm, and disappeared behind the palace toward the gardens below.
In the square of Caño Gordo they passed a couple going slowly down the hill, very close together, not yet daring to walk arm in arm, but ready to put their arms around each other's waists as soon as they disappeared in the next path.
It disappeared in the direction of the little church beside the palace and the painter was alone again.
But his rebellion against this debasement of his art disappearedwhen he saw his Josephina in the house whose ornamentation he was constantly improving, converting it into a jewel case worthy of his love.
Monsignor, whose importance disappeared as soon as the ceremony was over, made his way with his attendants to the dressing-room, passing unnoticed through the throng.
But this pessimistic attitude disappeared when some one called him "Illustrious Master," or when he saw his name in a paper, and a pupil or admirer manifested an interest in his work.
The ground was churned up so deeply that the upper covering of soil has almost entirely disappeared and the limestone substratum now laid bare is overrun with rank vegetation.
The photograph opposite shows the condition of the road after its capture by the French; the causeway had disappeared and, on the shell-torn ground there were hardly any traces left of the German trenches which had everywhere fallen in.
Chunky slipped over the brink anddisappeared with a terrified "Wow!
All at once the frightened beast appeared to stand on his head, his hind feet beating a tattoo in the air; then he disappeared altogether.
He discovered where the animals had been taken from camp, but, as in the case with the loss of the other animals, the trail suddenly disappeared a short distance from camp.
The lad sat down to look about him, noting that the formation was a peculiar one, and that the reddish shade of the rock disappeared when one came into close contact with it.
It disappeared from before them as utterly as if the ponies had walked on air from that point on.
And with a child in each hand, Rachel followed the deputation, and had scarcelydisappeared before the light gracious figure of Rose glanced through the thorn trees.
She disappeared while I was talking to that good Miss Penwell!
The men released their hold of our gunwale, and their boat, drifting rapidly with the tide, disappeared in the darkness, only the faint glimmer of the lantern betraying their whereabouts.
The vessel passed on, and disappeared in the darkness, but by the sound of the creaking tackle and shouts of the crew I knew she had dropped anchor just above the pool where the fishing craft are wont to lie.
Then, to the accompaniment of a loud shout, the men hurled him far into the river, where he disappeared with a heavy splash.
But before we emerged from the valley the troopers halted, save a sergeant, who disappeared by a narrow path on the left-hand side of the lane.
As if in final benediction, he raised his right hand in token of farewell, then, as we brought our swords to the salute, he disappeared from view.
Be this as it may, he had disappeared from Flanders, and thus the great house of Erembald was all but wiped out.
Thus disappeared amid riot and terror the last remnant of that prosperity which had so long made Bruges glorious.
He had shown himself a loyal and a devoted friend to Charles the Terrible, and when that prince disappeared after the defeat of Nancy he became the counsellor and defender of Marie of Burgundy.
We know indeed that her private palaces were suffered to fall into decay because their owners were too poor to maintain them, but if they had been never so rich the old buildings would have disappeared just the same.
At this period brass oblong ornaments were affixed to the case, a detail which disappeared with the next later type.
This in turn disappearedwhen the dial departed from its former glory of a silvered hour circle and became a sheet of iron painted according to taste.
It was kind of Mr. Illingway to warn us, and perhaps the head-hunters have all disappeared since that white traveler was after the city of gold.
The bulge against the canvas disappeared as if by magic, and the sound of some one crawling or creeping away could be heard outside.
But the instant the coast was clear, a dark figure glided swiftly through the open door and disappeared in the shop.
