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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Vanish
 
  Vanished like a trifling sigh.
            —Franklin P. Adams		  1
  Vanished altogether, like the last spark on a burnt piece of paper.
            —Hans Christian Andersen		  2
  Vanish like a bursted bubble.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Vanished like a guilty thing.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Vanished like a pantomime demon.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Vanished like a pie.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Vanished like a Titanic world of spectres.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Like a vain dream … vanish’d hence, we know not how.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Vanishing, like eerie bubbles, on the rough, tried sea of care.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Vanishing like noxious exhalations.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Vanish like the figments of a dream.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Vanish like the mist in the morning.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Vanish like a ghost before the sun.
            —Philip James Bailey		  13
  Vanished like the furrow cut by a ship’s keel in the sea.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  14
  Vanished like dew before the morning sun.
            —George Beattie		  15
  All vanished, like a vision vain.
            —Emily Brontë		  16
  Vanished like a fairy.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  17
  Vanished like a corpse-light from a grave.
            —Lord Byron		  18
  Vanished like dawn to the daylight Giosuè Carducci  19
  Vanishes, as is his wont, too like an Ignis Fatuus, leaving the dark still darker.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  20
  Vanished, like a ghost at cock-crowing.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  21
  Vanish like a shot.
            —Giovanni Battista Casti		  22
  Vanishing as flies a dream.
            —John Clare		  23
  Vanish’d like dew-drops from the spray.
            —W. G. Clark		  24
                Passed away
As Fairies vanish at the break of day.
            —Hartley Coleridge		  25
  Vanished away, like spectres.
            —Charles Dickens		  26
  Vanish like a breath.
            —Charles Dickens		  27
  Vanished like a discontented fairy.
            —Charles Dickens		  28
  Vanish … as easily as an eel into sand.
            —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle		  29
  Gradually vanished like the receding hill-tops.
            —George Eliot		  30
  Vanish as mist before the sun.
            —Gustave Flaubert		  31
  Colors, like the rainbow, ever vanished.
            —Giles Fletcher		  32
  Vanished like an empty shade.
            —Phineas Fletcher		  33
  Vanished like a beautiful evening cloud.
            —Arne Garborg		  34
  Vanished like the shades of night upon the burst of a glorious morning in July.
            —William Godwin		  35
  Vanish like an echo or a dream.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  36
  Vanish, as by the waving of an enchanter’s wand.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  37
  Vanish, like a glimmering light, that comes we know not whence, and goes we know not whither.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  38
  Vanish like ephemeral things.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  39
  Vanish out of life as completely as if … he lay at the bottom of the sea.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  40
  Vanished like a baleful star.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  41
  Vanished like an empty dream.
            —Heinrich Heine		  42
  Vanished … like the shadow of a cloud.
            —Thomas Hood		  43
  Vanished like the enchanted castle on the approach of the conqueror.
            —Frank Horridge		  44
  Vanished like the beautiful sparkling hoarfrost.
            —Victor Hugo		  45
  Vanish together, as a dream of morning flies.
            —Victor Hugo		  46
        Vanish like a fleeting dream,
The shadow of a chariot, or flash of sword.
            —Victor Hugo		  47
  Vanished like the fleeting forms drawn in an evening cloud.
            —Richard Jago		  48
  All vanish as you shall vanish, like a bubble thrown up from the deep.
            —Louis Kossuth		  49
  She vanished like the lightning’s sudden gleam.
            —Alphonse M. L. Lamartine		  50
  Vanished like a fleet of cloud, like a passing trumpet-blast, are those splendors of the past.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  51
  Vanish … like the mist of the lake.
            —James Macpherson		  52
  Vanished … like the body in the tomb.
            —Denis Florence McCarthy		  53
  Vanished … like the day branch in the fire.
            —Denis Florence McCarthy		  54
        Like the dreams of the Blind,
Vanish the glories and pomps of the earth in the wind.
            —James Clarence Mangan		  55
  Vanish like a dew-drop in a rose.
            —Gerald Massey		  56
  Vanish like a view caught out of darkness by lightning.
            —George Meredith		  57
  Vanished, like a blasted thing.
            —Donald G. Mitchell		  58
  Vanish like gossamers of autumn eve.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  59
  Vanished like the feathery snow in summer’s running brooks.
            —Mrs.
            —Norton		  60
  Vanished like a mist that melts on the sunny hill.
            —Ossian		  61
  Vanished like a scene of enchantment.
            —Jane Porter		  62
  Vanished, like the airy fabric of an Eastern tale.
            —William H. Prescott		  63
  Vanished, like a shadow fled.
            —Edna D. Proctor		  64
  He vanishes like a man who has caused his property to be snatched from a swindler.
            —Osmanli Proverb		  65
  Vanished, like the writing from the sand.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  66
Like the swift shadows of Noon, like the dreams of the blind,
Vanish the glories and pomps of the earth in the wind.
            —Friedrich Rückert		  67
  Vanished from our eyes, like sunbeam on the billow cast.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  68
  Vanisheth as smoke from Ætna.
            —William Shakespeare		  69
  Vanish like hailstones.
            —William Shakespeare		  70
  Vanish, like smoke before the tempest’s stream.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  71
  Vanished, like a star into a cloud.
            —Alexander Smith		  72
  Vanish like a vision of the night.
            —Robert Southey		  73
  Beauty vanishes like a vapor.
            —Harriet P. Spofford		  74
  Vanish like smoke of incense.
            —Richard H. Stoddard		  75
  Vanish away like smoke.
            —Old Testament		  76
  Vanish like a shooting star.
            —John Tobin		  77
  Vanished like a mere soap-bubble.
            —Josef K. Tyl		  78
  Vanished … like a feathered shaft frae a yeoman’s bow.
            —David Vedder		  79
            Evanished like a blink
Of starlight ere the mind can think.
            —Frank Waters		  80
Vanished, like a rush
Of self-consuming flame.
            —Robert K. Weeks		  81
Light as a sunbeam glides along the hills
She vanished.
            —William Wordsworth		  82
 
 
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