Disappears
[,disə'piəz]
Examples
- In that case one of the main points in favor of the accused disappears. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She disappears, leaving me alone with Jip. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- De Candolle has observed, a common alpine species disappears. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The opposition, however, is only seeming, and disappears when the ordinary definition is completed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The disparity I have mentioned, therefore, almost ceases to be disparity, and (virtually) all but disappears. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- If a piece of potassium permanganate about the size of a grain of sand is put into a quart of water, the solid disappears and the water becomes a deep rich red. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- At the upper level it disappears through a similar comb and returns out of sight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mere amassing of information apart from the direct interests of life makes mind wooden; elasticity disappears. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The original view thus entirely disappears, and the scene is changed from the interior of a church to open country, or to a rocky valley. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Mechanical energy may be converted into heat; if heat disappears, some other form of energy, equivalent in amount to the heat lost, must replace it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Thus, when the woman has disappeared the showman allows a young man to enter, and he also disappears, while the young woman is found in his place. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Bayou Baxter, as it reaches lower land, begins to spread out and disappears entirely in a cypress swamp before it reaches the Macon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If, however, the tube is held, during the rotation of the disk, over the inner row of unequally spaced holes, the musical tone disappears, and a series of noises take its place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When the great orb of day disappears beneath the horizon the effect is precisely as that of the extinguishing of a single lamp within a chamber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- At any rate, the rudest type of Pal?olithic implements presently disappears. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With that, and 'Good night,' the Secretary lowers the window, and disappears. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If both blue and red pieces of glass are held in the path of the beam, so that the light must pass through first one and then the other, the entire spectrum disappears and no color remains. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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