Vanishes
[væniʃiz]
Examples
- A mole could trace it, and there it vanishes among the reeds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She is repressing symptoms favourable to the fit when she seems to take alarm at something and vanishes down the stairs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I return in my grave-clothes, a pledge restored from the very sepulchre, and every one I speak to vanishes as soon as they hear my voice! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But on a nearer examination of them the similarity vanishes, and they are seen to be distinct characters. Plato. The Republic.
- But drag me from this country; and my power of self control vanishes, nor can I answer for the violence my agony of grief may lead me to commit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He speaks no English and vanishes as quickly and as mysteriously after he has performed some valorous deed, as though he were a disembodied spirit. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Everybody else quickly vanishes too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Leah