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