Disappearing

Examples

• I conceived the happy idea of disappearing. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The gun is mounted on a disappearing carriage, which lowers it out of sight behind the breastworks after firing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I'll try, said Amy, for the advice suited her, and after a flurry to get ready, she ran after the friends, who were just disappearing over the hill. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The manager would see him studying sometimes an article in such a paper as the Scientific American, and then disappearing to buy a few sundries for experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• By disappearing from such place, and being no more heard of thereabouts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• On reaching the end of the Charlington grounds, he sprang from his machine and led it through a gap in the hedge, disappearing from my view. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In Fig. 200 is shown a succession of instantaneous photographs of a sportsman shooting a glass ball, and the firing of a disappearing gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The population is migratory, usually disappearing on the verge of quarter-day, and generally by night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In the case of guns in fortifications, the disappearing carriage is a highly important invention of recent date. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Looking through, the moment after, I thought I saw the tails of Sergeant Cuff's respectable black coat disappearing round the corner of the passage. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Editor: Stanton