How To Use Vanish In A Sentence
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He vanished from the scene, to materialize presently in front of the door.
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Along the rocky paths Buddhist monks appear like ghosts and vanish mysteriously into the trees.
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Officers had been shown a dirty white T-shirt which he said he had worn on the day his girlfriend vanished.
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This vanishing reflects both the culture's increasing intolerance of sentimentalism and mainstream comics' marginalizing of women readers.
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The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film.
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Vanishing, with a quick flirt of gingham apron-strings, she reappeared in considerably less than a "trice" as a fluffy
Strictly business: more stories of the four million
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The last Mariposa lily vanished from the burnt grasses as the California Indian summer dreamed itself out in purple mists on the windless air.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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He pictured the dim room with the revolving spheres, and the orb in the centre, its many facets coruscating with vanishing light.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.
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We all wondered how she could have vanished into thin air.
The Sun
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There was a brief flare of white light, and the Goddess vanished, leaving only a smattering of loose tinsel behind.
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They believed the only reason development was not working was the lack of professional input: if we provided this, poverty would magically vanish.
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In a world of shifting boundaries, vanishing borders, and proliferating frontiers, security is even more difficult to achieve.
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A few months later, the guy who owned and operated the company upped and vanished to avoid a legion of creditors, and has not been seen since.
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A racer from Team Whole Foods Market wrenched her ankle immediately and vanished in the cloud of dust raised by the stampede.
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The playful flirtation vanished from the dark woman's face in a flash and she straightened suddenly, firing a steel - cold glance my way.
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We watched the building vanish under a mantle of thick grey smoke as the fire swiftly moved through it.
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Despite the skill with which Jellicoe and Beatty had enmeshed the High Seas Fleet, Iron Duke had fired only nine salvos when Scheer turned his ships around and vanished into the mist.
Castles of Steel
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The hard-liners have not vanished, and the political battles ahead will be intense.
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With Charles II. the embroidered gloves seem to have vanished along with the stumpwork pictures, of which more anon.
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
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Their son watched helplessly as they vanished beneath the waves.
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Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish.
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Within days, all our persistent coughs and runny noses have vanished.
Times, Sunday Times
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In March this year he was released from jail then vanished again.
The Sun
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The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice".
Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
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A new way of imagining the song glimmers and vanishes before the chorus, as the subdued arrangement loses its subtlety and its way.
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But at the time, all thoughts of tempo totally vanished as the senses encountered a rare flux of movement.
Times, Sunday Times
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The problem could arise if this population suddenly vanished, as it has done in the past due to myxomatosis.
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They expressed worry about the district's current budget crisis and its vanishing middle-class work force.
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The liver necrosis vanished, her color came back, and she started to put on weight.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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The 1982-83 policies made the global recession vanish almost instantly.
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It was only after these fish vanished from the ecosystem that mammals and cartilaginous fish such as manta rays, basking sharks, whale sharks began to adapt to that ecological role.
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While poster art continued to prosper, the ornate details of Art Nouveau vanished.
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The business value of a message might be long-lived or it may vanish in seconds (tortoises and hares).
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Archie shuffled his feet and looked as if he'd like to vanish up his parlour chimney.
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The moth had vanished by this point.
Times, Sunday Times
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But… he gave each of them a ‘shot’ of morphia, whereupon all traces of fatigue vanished.
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There are fears the same animal killed a man who vanished in the area days earlier.
The Sun
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What's more, researchers found evidence to suggest that a subspecies called the Nubian wild ass, presumed vanished late in the 20th century, is not only a direct ancestor of the donkey - it may still exist.
University of Florida News
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But the old ways do not vanish overnight, so the traditional dance has a stronger pull on their hearts.
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The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its enormous size.
Les Miserables
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Even her rescuer in the shell suit and bad perm had vanished.
TICKLED PINK
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Nuclear power produces abundant power from small amounts of material, at small external costs, even when one accounts for the vanishingly small probability of accidents and the cost of waste disposal.
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The grin vanished like magic, her whole body stiffening in antipathy as her eyes locked with fathomless brown ones.
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One moment he was standing behind me, the next he had vanished in a puff of smoke.
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The temple ruins are a distant reminder of a vanished empire.
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When she regained her balance and looked around he - if indeed it had been he - had vanished.
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It is now 260 days since the aircraft vanished.
Times, Sunday Times
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But an overcast day could take the edge off the vanishing act.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are the questions that plague Coronilla and thousands of others whose relatives from across Latin America have vanished in recent years as lawlessness prevails in large swaths of Mexico.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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He had enacted the adventure of vanishing into thin air and being reborn, phoenixlike, as someone else - literally, a self-made man.
Recortes
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I need a vanisher, banisher to rid me of this… I pointed to my ear.
Wildfire
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Most of these fireballs burn up or explode in the atmosphere and vanish without a trace.
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Giant club moss trees vanished overnight to be replaced by rather weedy fern vegetation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sun in 1991 was free, but then vanished again.
The Sun
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If lime water or barytic water occasions a precipitate which again vanishes by the admixture of muriatic acid, then carbonic acid is present in the water.
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employ
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Not only have the top-boots and breeches vanished from the costume of innkeepers, but also the long, parti-coloured waistcoat, and the birds'-eye fogle round their necks.
Can You Forgive Her?
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Legislators plan to propose a state buy-back of unused licenses in the coming term, and those too will then vanish.
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I knew my athetoid cerebral palsy would kick into high gear and my head control would vanish, leaving me bobbing for invisible apples.
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » May
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Those compounds should be abundant on a planet, but pure oxygen, whether monatomic or molecular, should be vanishingly scarce - as it is, in fact, on Mars and Venus.
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The story was simple to him: good prospects that warranted the starting of the tunnel into the sidehill; the three months 'work and the getting short of money; the lay-off while the men went away and got jobs; then the return and a new stretch of work, with the "pay" ever luring and ever receding into the mountain, until, after years of hope, the men had given up and vanished.
Chapter IX
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Another suggestive piece of evidence is comparison with dogs that remain on the other side of the long vanished Asia-North America land connection.
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Margaret and Veronica Bullock Collections Council of Australia: Will collections vanish in the urge to converge?
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Entry tags: edgar allan poe, gold bug the, man in black, pit and the pendulum the, strange case of edgar allan poe the, tell-tale heart the, vanishing point
Issue 0.036
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They were given safe passage and had since vanished.
Times, Sunday Times
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Generally, symptoms may vanish both before or after the start of menstrual flow.
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They cut the mast and sails loose and watched as it vanished into the depths below.
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The highway stretched out ahead of me until it narrowed to a vanishing point some miles away.
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The second sandwolf peered from the side of the quarasote, then turned, and bounded to a second clump of quarasote, before vanishing into a gully so small that Wendra could barely make it out.
Darkness
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The gaiety with which they had set out had somehow vanished; and yet there was no enmity or malice between them.
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This is the essential function of a cliché, and of cant and jargon; to neutralise expression and ‘vanish memory’.
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And it will vanish altogether in less than three decades.
The Sun
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In times of war, the distinction between patriotism and nationalism vanishes.
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As neat an instrument as the theremin is, some of its mystique vanishes when you first hear a musical saw; the two don't produce the exact same sound, but it's remarkably close.
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His life-force seemed to vanish in those last days.
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Not only had they appeared mysteriously, but the caterpillars vanished equally suddenly.
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Trade unions do and they are disappearing to vanishing point for their trouble.
Times, Sunday Times
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The idea so vague and ill-formed it might just vanish like smoke in a breeze.
Antonio Garcia-Martinez: Pseudorandomness, Or How I Got Into Y Combinator and Had a Child With a Woman I Barely Knew, Almost Simultaneously
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The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
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Last week, on Wednesday, April 28, researcher Hector Picco remarked that he had seen a small white light coming from the sierras and vanishing into the rocky floor of an empty piece of property adjacent to his home.
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The light overtook them, passed through the car and vanished - and Gill and his friend kept right on driving!
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The mimeoed version kept vanishing from the Nuffield library, so at least it was being read, or looked at.
James A. Mirrlees - Autobiography
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From what has been said, it must be evident that life is the effect of a number of external powers, constantly acting on the body, through the medium of that property which we call excitability; that it cannot exist independent of the action of these stimuli; when they are withdrawn, though the excitability does not instantly vanish, there is no life, no motion, but the semblance of death.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
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Scattered across the asphalt like murderer's footprints, puddles of water turn bloody with sunset"), it vanishes when Stewart settles in to show us freelance detective Diane Fletcher using her ability as a "shaper" (someone who can read and experience the emotions of others) to help policeman Rolly French investigate the death of Jonathan Mask.
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We all wondered how she could have vanished into thin air.
The Sun
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If he saves the world too often, he will vanish completely.
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Nearly more than half the town's children vanished, including every one of the accusers.
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Prof. Bluma Goldstein of California University, who grew up as a child of an aguna, vividly describes in Enforced Marginality, the "galeriye fun farshvundene mener - Gallery of Vanished Husbands" which appeared several times weekly for decades in the New York-based Jewish newspaper The Forward - Forverts.
JPost.com - Front Page
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The great mobs which had thronged the streets during the night had vanished.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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One moment he was standing behind me, the next he had vanished in a puff of smoke.
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They moved 350 miles to Cornwall where the collie cross vanished and spent all their spare time trying to track her down.
The Sun
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A deft flick of the switch and my virtual French nurse vanishes into the ether.
Times, Sunday Times
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The possibility of a favourable outcome to such an enterprise reaches the vanishing point.
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Mason Storm's going to vanish, and you'll help make that happen.
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I think that Bob Carr is using you to score political points and any vestigial respect I felt for him has vanished in a puff of political posturing.
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They have almost all vanished again by December, and no one knows where they have gone.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few survivors, precariously perched on sill-less windows, survey their double bind looking for perspective and vanishing points, a place to tip themselves over the edge in hopes defatigable winging.
Kamikaze Birdsongs
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He starts thrumming the guitar and his age vanishes.
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The voice and face of his dearest friend and advisor vanished, and Roy proceeded to remove his paint-bedaubed smock and brush his hair, so as to present a somewhat better appearance when the professor arrived.
"The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 1
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All of this vanished like mist before a strong wind when war broke out and all thoughts of international proletarian solidarity went out of the window.
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Some, such as the wryneck, ceased to breed in East Anglia; others, notably the stonechat, all but vanished.
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The Donets was the first to vanish from our sight, after it the
The Bishop and Other Stories
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Now the vanished figure is the chief investigator in that slaying, Pablo Chapa Bezanilla.
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You hear a loud screech and look up, but they fly so fast that they have already vanished.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since then, however, the very "ruines" have vanished; the palms have had time to grow; and modern Cairo has doubtless absorbed all the building material that remained from the middle ages.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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The shine had gone from his eyes and his grin had vanished.
Times, Sunday Times
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When bodyboards came along in the form of the original Morey Boogie, mats vanished.
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I've used alot of berkeley and trilene, I've been real impressed w/Vanish's strength and castability, and have been slowly switching most of my bass and ultralight reels to it when I can afford it.
What's Your Line?
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The number of divas who can hit the f6 in Mozart's Queen of the Night is vanishingly small, and you just can't perform The Queen of the Night without that famous f6.
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Do you think the notion that it's beneath the dignity of a serious writer to cater for something like television has simply vanished?
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It shot into the charts at number 10, unheard of in those days, but stalled well short of the expected number 1 slot and vanished from the charts in six weeks flat.
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The chances of dying under anaesthetic are vanishingly small.
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There's an interesting thread at The Peking Duck that takes off from an article about "vanishing dialects and greater adoption of putonghua" and turns into a discussion of whether there is in fact a unified writing system in China.
Languagehat.com: CHINESE "DIALECTS" AND WRITING.
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the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished
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Heavy doses of nitrogen fertiliser will tip the competitive balance in favour of grasses, and soon purple wood crane's bill, blood-red greater burnet, frothy white pignut and meadowsweet, yellow lady's bedstraw, globe flower and blue speedwells will vanish, leaving an "improved" pasture – more productive, more profitable, but oh-so dull.
Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates
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All he knew is that his father's money had mysteriously disappeared, vanished into thin air for all he knew.
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The butler suavely tries to inform her; the housekeeper removed the white crotcheted scarfs and things from the gilded chairs, and I am sure Mrs. Denning had a heartache about their loss; but she saw that they had also vanished from
The Man Between, an International Romance
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And when these had vanished in the distance Graham heard a peewit wailing close at hand.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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Her old adulator, also, vanished from public places, while her young admirer and his father hovered about in them as usual, but spiritless, comfortless, and as if in the same search as himself.
Camilla
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It seemed as if a sudden flash of anger went over him, like the flash that glides along the glutinous stem of the fraxinella, when you touch it with a candle; the next moment it had utterly vanished, and was forgotten as if it had never been.
Malbone: an Oldport romance
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I think the evidence for that is vanishingly small.
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Perhaps only in a year filled with movies like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Stagecoach, Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, the larkier but somewhat similar Gunga Dun, Ninotchka, of course Gone With The Wind and so many others could The Four Feathers be relatively overshadowed.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: 1939 -- Still Hollywood's Greatest Year
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For many householders, mail too easily vanishes into junk mail.
Times, Sunday Times
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But bipedalism in birds is a highly specialized form of bipedal motion; the large tails of birds' ancestors, which in crocodilians still anchor the leg muscles, have mostly vanished in birds.
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The kid smiled and vanished, leaving a befuddled scientist to wonder if he'd begun hallucinating.
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The image of beer belly, scruffy jeans and T-shirt is vanishing as one in eight delivery drivers dons a shirt and tie for work.
The Sun
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All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished.
The Sun
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He seems to have vanished without trace.
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The two enormous generators, the blackness of the protonic shield, and the great artificial matter generator, throwing an inner shield impervious to the cosmics Thett gave off as it vanished, both were whining.
Invaders from the Infinite
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There is just enough flexibility to arrange that at P and in addition that the first derivatives of the metric components vanish.
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The result has been a programme of increasingly spectacular vanishing acts.
Times, Sunday Times
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A peacherino like Helen Trick up and vanishing, well . . . that might be just about anything.
Giving SATAN SLEUTH the Gong
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Cheap rural housing is vanishing in the south of the country.
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Let them vanish like water away ; when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.
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My glasses seem to have vanished.
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This was Goat Island, created of silts and clays that had originally lain on the bottom of the vanished Lake Tonawanda.
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The next morning, the salt had apparently vanished, but, of course, when Svetaketu sipped the water he found that the salt permeated the whole beakerful of liquid, even though it could not be seen.
Buddha
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He also defined the vanishing line to a given plane, not parallel to the plane of the picture, as the intersection of the plane through the eye parallel to the given plane.
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Any lingering aura of weapons testing seemed to have vanished from the word bikini by the 1960s, when what was left of Bikini Atoll itself was largely forgotten.
The English Is Coming!
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He left his coffee and blondie on top of the display case, untasted, and vanished into the crowd.
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After several years of decline, they have vanished almost completely in the waters around Orkney and Shetland.
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Her sunny smile vanished as she read the letter.
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The protoplasm is more or less extensively excavated by fluid spaces, vacuoles; one clearer circular space or vacuole, which is invariably present, appears at intervals, enlarges gradually, and then vanishes abruptly, to reappear after a brief interval; this is called the contractile vacuole (c.v.).
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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But there was no sign of technical problems before the aircraft vanished from screens.
The Sun
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When Allen vanished after he was released Findlay was unsurprised.
LOST SUMMER
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Oh, first, the deletions --- Armey & Kibbe's "Tea Party Manifesto" vanishes from the bestseller lists this week, after being #1 in both the political and general rankings last week ...
BOOK WORLD - October 3, 2010
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The 22-year-old lost her way without a torch and vanished over the edge as she returned from the public loos.
The Sun
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Local men and women have recorded memories of their vanished working lives in the cutlery and silver trades and today's silversmiths and jewellers from the region are celebrated too.
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If the business agrees, the fraudsters will then cold-call the public, but pocket any cash raised and vanish.
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Smokers who quit saw the extra stroke risk vanish in six months.
The Sun
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Where did we queue to buy the commemorative crown pieces, the silver five-bobs that suddenly made sense of the term "half-crown", of which they were the vanished ancestors?
My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack
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Focus on the after-image of the light, without moving your head, until it completely vanishes.
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Low-lying cities such as New Orleans would vanish.
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All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished.
The Sun
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These mythological people possessed powers that included levitation, invisibility, shape changing, and the ability to vanish before your eyes.
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Anne vanished from outside her home last Wednesday.
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Where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself. We must have a notion that no breakdown would come into being or disappear without reason.
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All your troubles will vanish away when he returns safely.
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The bird vanished in a flash of blue.
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After they vanished, the basement was still full of junk metal and glass.
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My hopes of ever achieving the dreams of my youth - career, family, home - are vanishingly small.
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The mother of one of the runaway teenage Hampshire sweethearts has herself vanished, the Daily Echo can reveal.
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For many householders, mail too easily vanishes into junk mail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tables vanish under bowls brimming with linguine vongole, lasagne and antipasti.
Times, Sunday Times
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A note in one of Leonardo's manuscripts speaks of twenty-four Roman subjects, probably small decorative groups in _camaieu_, painted on the vaulting of these rooms, and gives the exact cost of the blue, gold, and enamel employed, but all trace of these decorations has vanished.
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497
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In March this year he was released from jail then vanished again.
The Sun
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It made short purring sounds, mixed with squeaks, then it vanished.
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He had vanished from work on July 21 last year leaving his jacket on the back of his chair, his name tag on the desk and his car locked up in his consultant's parking bay.
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The blue matter floated in the air for a moment, then it dissipated and vanished.
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Shadows and penumbras were instantaneously formed from the myriad of trees and hills that he surveyed through the window, and just as quickly vanished.
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In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.
Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
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The instant I let go, it darted into the depths and vanished, as if nothing had happened.
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I drove down the long, tree-lined drive, the main road vanishing behind me.
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For if it was to vanish, we would be faced with the pain of our loss.
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They were to give war the kind of precision that would lower civilian deaths to the vanishing point and, as the neocons of the Bush administration would claim in the next decade, free the U.S. military to "decapitate" any regime we loathed.
Tom Engelhardt: Why Military Dreams Fail -- and Why It Doesn't Matter
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The creatures starts to vanish from the Earth, nature temperament also pejoration day-by-day.
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They are cooked together until the milk is absorbed and almost vanishes, leaving behind a richness of texture and taste.
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Misha darted away into the courtyard, and into the carriage, waved his cap over his head, hallooed, — the monstrous coachman leered at him over his beard, the greys dashed off, and all vanished!
A Desperate Character
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All high melting point phases vanish. The solid solubility increases greatly.
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Yet all such speed was invisible, as the wind vanishes when a swift xebec scuds before a tempest on the Ocean of Urth. We drifted so lazily that if I had not had faith in Apheta and the Hierarchs, I would have feared we would never reach the ship at all and be lost forever in that endless night.
The Urth of the New Sun
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Her reply began with a hint of forlornness that vanished with her smile, as she warned:
CHAPTER VII
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They cut the mast and sails loose and watched as it vanished into the depths below.
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Her long locks have vanished and she's got a new choppy bob.
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Choose cats, and cheese in all its manifestations vanishes forever with only orange powdery smudges to mark its passing; choose cheese, and cats all over the word vaporize with an adorable, furry pop.
2007 January 16 « Whatever
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She appeared amongst her companions, and vanished from them, with a degree of rapidity which was inconceivable and hedges, treillage, or such like obstructions, were surmounted by her in a manner which the most vigilant eye could not detect; for, after being observed on the side of the barrier at one instant, in another she was beheld close beside the spectator.
Anne of Geierstein
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It must have existed at some point, but now it's vanished, gone, disappeared, forever.
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He wished it would vanish and leave him buried in the darkness.
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So, amid glitter of illuminated streets and Champs Elysees, and crackle of fireworks and glad deray, has the first National Assembly vanished; dissolving, as they well say, into blank Time; and is no more.
The French Revolution
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He'd endured more than a week without her; his stock of patience was stretched vanishingly thin.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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But after the sale she warned that the party vibe had not entirely vanished.
Times, Sunday Times
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Groves of rigging were about the chains; and there, peering from behind a great stay, like an Indian from behind a hemlock, a Spanish sailor, a marlingspike in his hand, was seen, who made what seemed an imperfect gesture towards the balcony, but immediately as if alarmed by some advancing step along the deck within, vanished into the recesses of the hempen forest, like a poacher.
The Piazza Tales
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Any flicker of uncertainty about riding such a young thoroughbred vanished.
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These masses have not vanished without a trace.
A Short Guide to Writing About History
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The mechanism must be sensitive, as such properties of matter as heat, light, electricity, magnetism, and actinism, are to be handled, caused to vanish and reappear, analyzed and measured.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
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When they become waterless , they are silent , When it is hot, they vanish from their place.
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The picture showed a lady sitting there upright, bedizened in a fur hat and fur boa, with her entire forearm vanishing inside a heavy fur muff that she held out toward the viewer.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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They just did not like the idea of dying and simply vanishing.
Times, Sunday Times
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It and its mistress vanished into the dark to her car and a little unknown nook somewhere.
Somewhere East of Life
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The blue nimbus soon engulfed them and vanished from view.
