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• If anything was to happen to this man--that is if he was to disappear, and still not be dead, and the officer in the white tent should know of it--the leader of the white soldiers would no doubt pay much money to have his man brought safely back. —  Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos
• This is evidently the reason why Satan makes such great exertions in opposition to infant baptism: that the removal of this testimony of the grace of God may cause the promise which it exhibits before our eyes gradually to disappear, and at length to be forgotten. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
• Moreover, John, too, had his professional ambition: he was naturally proud of his connection, however secondary, with the publication of these works--and this connection, though subordinate, was still very profitable; he must have suspected, that should his name disappear altogether from the list of booksellers, it would be a very difficult matter for him to retain any concern in them; and I cannot, on the whole, but consider it as certain that, the first and more serious embarrassments being overcome, he was far from continuing to hold by his patron's anxiety for the total abolition of their unhappy copartnership. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• They saw the dishpan tremble an instant and then disappear, the dove disappearing with it, and although they waited expectantly for some minutes for the magician's return, Ugu did not come back again Seems to me," said the Wizard in a cheerful voice, "that we have conquered the wicked magician more quickly than we expected to Don't say 'we'--Dorothy did it!" —  The Lost Princess of Oz
• When the claims of prescriptive authority are finally exchanged for a reliance on moral power these discrepancies will disappear, and a vast apparatus, already supplied by the state and private zeal, will bring within reach of every colonial family some form of Christian doctrine. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I

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