Cheshire Puss

But, luckily for me, before more could be said, the face began slowly to fade away like that of the Cheshire Puss in "Alice in Wonderland," leaving nothing but the awful frown across the sky.

The Defence of Duffer's Drift Ernest Dunlop Swinton 1909

His genial and expansive smile and the unobtrusive manner of his fading away are there vaguely associated with Cheshire Puss, of joyful memory, whose disappearance, like his, began with the end of the tale.

The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901