Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Disappear
Disappear like phantoms.
—Anonymous
Disappearing at day break like foul night-birds of an unclean dream.
—William Cowper Brann
Disappears like dew on a June morning.
—Edward G. Buffum
Slowly disappearing, like a day dream.
—Charles Stuart Calverley
Disappeared like a shadow.
—Adelbert von Chamisso
Disappeared … like a man overtaken by an avalanche.
—Joseph Conrad
Disappeared, like the shadow thrown by a passing cloud.
—Charles Dickens
Disappeared, like a cloud driven by the wind.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Disappeared, like a passing gleam.
—George Eliot
Disappear like a tale that is told.
—Simeon Ford
Disappeared like a shape in a vision Thomas Hardy
Disappeared, as a shadow melting into air.
—Victor Hugo
Disappeared like buttered crumpets.
—Leigh Hunt
Disappeared like a shot.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
Disappeared like print held too close to the eye.
—Arthur Ransome
Disappear,
Like dew late strewn through the trembling grass.
—Hayden Sands
Appeared and disappeared like a succession of lightning flashes.
—José Selgas
Disappeared as if he had vanished in the air.
—José Selgas
Disappear, as if all had vanished through the sky.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley