They seemed to have sprung into existence solely to do that one bold deed, and then to vanish like a dream.
They had power to assume any form, and to change it as often as they pleased; but they could neither vanishnor change, while a human eye was fixed upon them.
And this mansion seems to vanish as you approach,--being no mansion, but a small house lying in a nook, and overshadowed by a hill.
Bill blew a smoke ring over his head and watched it vanish up toward the dusky roof beams before he answered.
I'm afraid to let go of you for fear you'll vanish into nothing, like a Hindu fakir stunt.
If I should vanish I'd leave a plain trail for you to follow.
There life blossoms sweet, And the night-time and noon time in melody meet, Till the sorrows that sadden the care-clouded day Find the smiles ever beaming and vanish away.
The birds freely sing In autumn's drear weather As blithe as in spring; They chorus their music In joy's happy tune, And singing and singing Their songs vanish soon.
The darkness at the feet Shall blossom at the dawning with all the roses sweet, And every grief we gather and every tear we know Shall vanish into gladness as up the paths we go.
Then the foes shall vanish quite; Let the world howl on with censure,-- It will all come right!
Rawleigh met his evil genius in Cecil; he saw his solitary hopevanish with Prince Henry.
If we may confide in a learned conjecture, it may happen that Caedmon is no name at all, but merely a word or a phrase; and thus the entity of the Dreamer of the Monastery of Whitby may vanish in the wind of two Chaldaic syllables!
Elys often breaks out in triumph that he has at length discovered an authentic ghost; in subsequent letters the evidence gradually diminishes, and finally the apparition and evidence vanish together.
The accelerated intercourse of the people has long passed beyond the diurnal folio and the evanescent stage-coach, and in a century of railroads and national schools the provincial glossary will finally vanish away.
It is chiefly the incessant action of water and of air that makes them vanish like the "baseless fabric of a vision.
This is especially true in those cases where the original channel seems to vanish and to be replaced by two quite new canals, each about the breadth of the English Channel, and lying one on each side of the course of the old one.
This anticipation was practically verified, for the ring was seen to vanish in May of that year.
The house didn't vanish away suddenly, not by no manner of means.
Have you ever known a fine, big, well built, modern residence to vanish off the face of the earth, together with the ground it stood on, and the garden around it?
Heyward drew back, all his ardor to proceed seeming to vanish on the instant.
Also all excrements and all the carcases of animals vanishinto air.
As for me, I came like the thunder and I vanish like the wind, but perchance it is given unto us to meet again above.
As soon as the stream reaches the sea, its stones vanish in it, and are never seen again.
Swiftly vanish the wild fleet tracks Before the rifle and woodman's axe: But hark to the coming of unseen feet, Pattering by night through the city street!
Ah, vanish each unworthy trace Of earthly care or pride, Leave only, graven on my heart, The Cross, the Crucified!
He must be an escaped lamplighter, or something,' he laughed good-naturedly, as he saw the long legs vanish down the platform.
Realizing that he had very little time before the light in the interior of the forecastle would vanish altogether, he hurried back to the Spaniard's berth and hauled out the kit-bag.
When I vanish rush to the stables, pick out a good mustang, and be in Cartagena within the hour.
He came on deck to watch the Castle of San Juan dwindle and vanish in the deep, blue glamour of a perfect tropical night.
Or do they exist unaltered till they become unfit, when they just vanish from this sublunary scene?
Down we go on a break-neck descent among boulders, between steep cliffs, over landslips and spurs, and the Himalayas gradually vanish from sight.
Antelopes career over the plain in light flying leaps; they stand motionless, watching us, but as soon as we come near dart off as though on steel springs, and soon vanish in the distance.
At the end of the perspective, both seemed to have given a spring with their feet, which made themvanish as if evaporated into the clouds.
Believing that, I cannot also believe that my peculiar little thread will not undergo synthesis and vanish as a separate thing.
The time had now arrived for him to vanish and make room for James Darragh.
His friend watched the train vanishinto the forest.
Yet in this gentlewomen's war every gentlewoman's wish was a military command, and when at length one man did hear, to hear was to vanish in the turmoil on their errand.
In the mirror I saw flashes of up-ended legs and, from time to time, other and sundry anatomical parts that flew up in range only to vanish again as the grim struggle went on.
It seems now that these otherwise entirely reliable citizens are seeing other citizens explode and vanish into thin air.
So, with the merry tale and jovial song, The jocund evening whirls itself along, Till the last chorus shrieks its loud encore, And the white neckcloths vanish through the door.
In a wooden coffin the remains, with the exception of the bones, vanish in from two to five years.
