And in less than half a minute, the whole thing had disappeared down his throat.

I put a stop to that - got a good lock - but I'm afraid the best things disappeared long ago.

He jerked his eyes around, but the thing had disappeared under the beams.

The other things all disappeared in time, to be replaced by something else.

He turned and squinted up toward the place where the thing had disappeared.

But the wind changed, and pretty soon the whole thing just disappeared.

Obviously, some things had simply disappeared along with the end of apartheid.

"So the best possible thing for them to do is disappear."

At the bottom of the cut, the thing disappeared into the earth.

It was a place where all the things that were bothering me would disappear.