The need to travel for a career, the desire to see the world, these things didn't just vanish.

It did not return; the thing had vanished like a ghost.

Clearly, more serious things than art are vanishing in Iraq.

When he turned and confronted it, the thing had vanished.

They were so huge and now today the whole thing has completely vanished.

Such things do not vanish without leaving a mark on the world, he says.

All these things vanished when they were no longer needed.

"But we will not be able to enter until two thing have vanished from that room."

Both times the thing vanished before he could get a better look.

As he strained to see, the thing vanished among the trees.