166 collocations for vanishes

From that time on, the Indians hung upon our flanks, but vanished as by magic the moment we advanced against them.

Whether the U.S. Agent at Nulato was justified or not in saying all the region hereabouts was populous in the summer with Indian camps, the native winter settlements, the half-buried ighloo, or the rude log-hut, where, for a little tea, tobacco, or sugar, you could get as much fish as you could carry, these welcome, if malodorous, places seemed, since they lost the trail, to have vanished off the face of the earth.

Nor could we easily spare the four sylph-like Misses Clipper, for with them vanished all hopes of delicious music in the evening.

UNMASKED I had in truth hardly more than grasped the reality of the boat's presenceit seemed so spectral a thing amid the mists of the nightwhen it had vanished utterly once more behind the curtain of darkness.

what an ankle the girl has, to be sure!" thought Jeanne, as she watched Victorine's shapely legs slowly vanishing up the stair.

For a moment or two each in turn, supported by one foot with body braced against the rock, grasped the knob and vanished round the corner.

They will transport the modern reader into a new worldwhich is yet the old, long vanished world of pastoral simplicity and warlike enthusiasm, in primitive Arabia.

O vanished loveliness of flowers and faces, Treasure of hair, and great immortal eyes, Are there for these no safe and secret places?

Thus vanished for Mr. Ward the alluring prospect of winning for himself and his country the beatitude of the peacemaker.

In one valley, the course of a river which vanished ages ago, the power of fire had left its monuments amid those of the power of water.

Even in the impressive scene where Sir Bedivere throws the dying King Arthur's sword into the sea, the language tells the story simply and shows no straining after effect: "And then he threw the sword as far into the water as he might, and there came an arm and an hand above the water, and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away the hand with the sword in the water...

Renfrew in the valley of vanished men.

A reference to the agreement between Moore and Murray became necessary, but for a long time that document could not be found; it was at length discovered, but only after the decision to commit the manuscript to the flames had been made and carried out, and the party remained until the last sheet of Lord Byron's Memoirs had vanished in smoke up the Albemarle Street chimney.

Some say that bright majority Of vanished dames and men!

" Mr. Swiveller opened his eyes very wide, and appeared thoughtful for a moment; then, bidding the child mind the door until he came back, vanished straightway.

yelled Eddie and vanished up the street.

For if 'tis read when time has flown, Deep in the buried soul 'twill waken The torment vanished days have known.

Lady Mary stood full in the sunshine, which lent once more the golden glory of her vanished youth to her brown hair, and the dazzle of new-fallen snow to her summer gown.

There they were, upright, tranquil, immense hyacinthstheir spear-points three feet above the water, their feathery streamers drifting six feet below; the broad, waxy leaves floating above their bulbous surface matsthey came on silently under the stars; they vanished under the stars seaward to their death.

By the time we had embarked the tints of the sunset had vanished, a moon nearly full rode undisputed mistress in the cloudless sky, and we cut our way to our ship through the ripple that was dancing and sparkling in her beams.

When M. Zola discovered, too, that sundry gentlemenleaving wine to their wives and daughterswere addicted to drinking whisky with their meals, he was yet more astonished, for he claims that in France nowadays, greatly as the consumption of alcohol has increased among the masses, it has declined almost to vanishing point among people with any claim to culture.

So many of the good things of life had vanished ere she and Abe could touch their lips to them.

He will feel that, for a questionable combination of a restoration with a ruin, there has been sacrificed the most impressive spectacle on the islandthe ancient church tower of vanished James Towne, standing in the shadow of the little grove by the river, broken, desolate, alone.

Ah, vanish each unworthy trace Of earthly care or pride, Leave only, graven on my heart, The Cross, the Crucified! ]

He spake with his mouth, vanished the garment; Again he commanded, and the garment appeared.

166 collocations for  vanishes