I refer to your elder brother—my long-vanished father—David Poe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

Michael, and the rest of the long-vanished life at Meringe Plantation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XXII] Reference

His thoughts were going back through the years -- the long-vanished years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

A coward, I am capable only of retreating into the long-vanished world of Edo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » A History of Modern Japanese Literary Criticism: Act One, Scene 2] Reference

Home to long-vanished species among whom were the ancient Tar-Aiym and Hur'rikku.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running From The Deity]

Faster and faster we moved, speeding on the wake of the long-vanished metal monks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

Great power and majesty they still wore, the silent wardens of a long-vanished kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

They lived in caverns in deep limestone karsts, laid down in long-vanished shallow seas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

The noise of the tremor echoed among the hills, like the growl of some long-vanished dragon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Of The Gods]

Behind him, the front end of the ovoid still gaped temptingly, beckoning to long-vanished passengers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Howling Stones]

But to succeed she needs the long-vanished local hero to come out of his funk and return to the green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairway Zen] Reference

My hole opened beneath a derelict escalator that had once led up into a long-vanished office building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sagittarius Whorl]

Sitting by his side at midnight, they watched while he summoned from unknown realms long-vanished shades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference

For the French, the Khmers were a “decadent” people, whose glory days were in the long-vanished past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambodge - The Cultivation of a Nation - Review by John Tully | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context] Reference

Was this a monument to some long-vanished confederation or empire in which many species and races had been united?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zero Stone]

There was something about that abrupt drop - could this city once have been a port on a long-vanished river or sea?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night of masks]

The Tuppers began their beer chronicling in 1979 with a long-vanished brand from Luxembourg called Henri Funk Lager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beer: 20,000 beers under their look-see] Reference

Patrick Barkham tries to find out why the long-vanished order of Crusaders might suddenly be advertising in the press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

September swung it back and forth and over his head and behind his shoulders, mimicking an action of a long-vanished terran sport.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icerigger]

Paleontology was essentially detective work, searching for clues in the fossil bones and the trackways of the long-vanished giants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurassic Park]

These include hundreds of small gold buttons that were sewn onto long-vanished costumes, like dime-sized sequins in a variety of shapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Riches of a Land] Reference

I still maintain mental maps of long-vanished stores beginning with Washington Heights in Tokyo, demolished for the Olympic Village in 1964.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THE LIBRARIAN'S HOME.] Reference

He spent his free time at the Bleecker Street Cinema or the Thalia or the New Yorker, or any of those other long-vanished Manhattan revival houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temptation] Reference

And to all outward appearances the Baldy ship before them now was twin to the one which had taken him once on a fantastic voyage across a long-vanished stellar empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key Out of Time] Reference

The long-vanished sea eagle could soon be soaring in the skies above England again under plans drawn up by conservationists.    From Wordnik.com.  [icScotland] Reference

This immense area may be regarded as an ancient peneplain truncating the bases of long-vanished mountains and dissected after elevation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference