For this reason, such faint objects as nebulæ are most successfully observed with moderate powers applied to instruments of a great capacity for light, the details of their structure actually disappearing when highly magnified.
Now this agrees perfectly with what is observed during the obliteration of the solar spots, which appear as if filled in by the collapse of their sides, the penumbra closing in upon the spot and disappearing after it.
The old-time rights of commonalty were disappearing in pasture, and farming land, and forest.
He snuffed the solitary candle, and then fell to stirring the fire, which, never very large, was in danger of disappearing under his hand.
Robin was late; but happily, as he thought, he caught sight of John as he was disappearing over the first hilltop, and followed with no thought of finding himself in the way.
He fell resignedly on to the ground, the stump of a cigarette in his mouth, and with a tiredness born of long suffering, buried his head in his arms to shut out the disappearing column and smoked on.
The three legs of the helio disappearing over the balcony was the first sight I saw one early morning, and the signallers came down with white faces.
Of course at the first shot there had doubtless been a tremendous plop and a universal view of disappearing hind feet, but they would have got accustomed to it as have we.
A spirit of confusion now seemed to seize upon the abbey: the door at the end of the corridor was thrown open; monks were seen hurrying across, moving a little way up the passage and disappearing by another door.
A dark figure issued from the wood; more followed; line after line of black, soldier-like phantoms swept over the sandy ground from the one wood toward the other, disappearing as they entered.
In the course of time, as an organized pantheon leads to greater stability in the domain of theological speculation, the influence of the politics of the country on the religion becomes less marked, without, however, disappearing altogether.
The ark of Noah can only be understood in the light of methods of navigation prevailing in Babylonia; and it is in Babylonia, and not Palestine, that the phenomenon was annually seen of large portions of land disappearing from view.
Meanwhile the others, including Rupert, would come and go, disappearing and reappearing in all directions with the aid of the rocky ravines and clumps of trees upon the island.
Tish said that proper clothing would make her beautiful; and Aggie, disappearing for a few minutes, came back with her last summer's foulard and a jet bonnet.
When I failed instantly to understand, however, she turned abruptly and left me, disappearing in the shadows.
Joan waved her hand back at the cabin, justdisappearing behind the trees.
A team of huskies and a man were disappearing in the spruce forest.
The five Earthmen stared up at the silvery spaceship that was rapidly disappearing into the clear blue void of space.
The two disgruntled spacemen turned quickly and walked to the nearest slidewalk, disappearing around a building.
Silently she went by, disappearing again into the mist, a weird addition to an uncanny scene.
This, and a concentrated fire from the destroyers, proved too strong for her and she turned eastward, disappearingin the mist off Helgoland.
Long files of wagons and men could be seen disappearing in the distance.
A covey of quail disappearing in the brush caused us to pull up.
And looking back at the dog seated panting in a rapidly disappearing distance, we saw that he also knew that the Old Order had changed.
The steamer altered her course, disappearing behind a point of the land, and eighteen deserted beings were destined to a series of experiences similar to those recorded of the Hansa men.
Wait till I get my dress on, and we'll talk it over while I hook up," Emeline said, disappearing again.
It is really a work for two voices, most of the sauciness disappearing when taken as a solo.
He was seized; but not counterfeiting insanity with such success, he was suspected−-and disappearing soon after, was supposed to have been strangled.
The few inhabitants of this wilderness, in which vegetation was rapidly disappearing as he advanced, were living in tents where wells of water were to be found.
One narrow road zigzagged up the steep side of the great rock, sometimes disappearing into clumps of trees, a white streak against the ocher cliffs.
To Simon's surprise, Pope Urban did not then ascend to his throne but instead came down, disappearing into the midst of his counselors.
Daoud had to parry one more blow of the scimitar before the Tartar slumped over in the saddle and slid to the ground, disappearing in the dust kicked up by the hooves of a dozen milling horses.
As the servants were asleep in the kitchen, she accompanied him herself to the door, which looked out on the garden, and she saw his tall shadow, lit up by the reflection of the lamp, disappearing through the gloom of night.
The sun was just disappearing behind the roofs of the Rue Saint-Lazare, but still shed its rays obliquely on that little, overdressed crowd.
They said: “If some of the sensation is continually going and disappearing from the life of the inhabitants of the valley—if this is the case, although the sensation may not be destroyed, it is certainly lost to us.
The sun was fast disappearingbehind the western hills.
He had patients to visit, and when the sun was disappearing behind the western clouds and hills, he suddenly remembered his obligations to them.
Then the boys, not wishing to see the man hurt, rushed forward and released him, and he lost no time in disappearing inside the gymnasium.
Koromiko, a very ornamental plant, but disappearing before the horse.
The wood-swallows, known to us old colonists as summer birds, are migratory, making their appearance about September and disappearing about the end of January.
An office was fitted up, and my anxiety over the disappearing pennies was eased by the conviction that I had but to hang out my shingle and the place would be thronged with patients.
So persistent, so egregious, so overwhelming were the attacks made upon me that for a time my spirit was broken, and in the bitterness of my soul I even felt desirous of disappearing to some remote corner of the earth, to be forgotten.
