His mind instantly banished all thoughts of Malwa, and stratagems, and plots, and turned inward.

This delicious collection, taken from 56 years of Charles Addams's cartoons, is so macabrely funny that it can instantly banish winter doldrums.

It was not like Earth's slow-fade dawn; the limb of the Sun just pushed above the Moon's rocky horizon, instantly banishing the stars into the darkness of a black sky.

In rode the jaunty Spock, although the 1946 Dr. Spock did not instantly banish parental anxiety.

Screens come with panic buttons labeled "Boss," that instantly banish spaceships and bring up spreadsheets.

Then I instantly banished the thought.

"O.K., O.K., don't worry," she said, waving a hand and, like a fairy tale character, instantly banishing the others behind the bedroom door.

Relief flooded him, banished instantly by fear.

The thought of flight from a peril of sweetness he banished instantly.

It instantly banished carnivorous thoughts from my mind.