vanished civilizations.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : The frost vanished when the sun came out. ,The thief vanished in the night. ,The pain vanished after he took an aspirin.    From Dictionary.com. 

With this last victim Plague vanished from the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [III.8] Reference

But the seemingly comfortable margin vanished quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

The coins vanished into an iron box bolted to the bench.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Recluce]

The phantasmagoria of his brain vanished at sight of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1] Reference

The mammoth, my dear sir, long ago vanished from the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Relic of the Pliocene] Reference

Don't worry, he hasn't vanished from the face of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Re-Welcome Donavan Hall to LENNDEVOURS] Reference

Good temper and smiling faces had vanished from the village.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hyperborean Brew] Reference

Her ankles, and with them her gold ankle chain vanished too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

Today they have largely vanished from the American landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm A Stranger Here Myself]

The last Mariposa lily vanished from the burnt grasses as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 36] Reference

The phantasmagoria of his brain vanished at the sight of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE HEROINES OF JACK LONDON] Reference

He 's been spirited off – vanished from the earth and left no trace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Junior] Reference

Has Obama's "post-partisan" obsession simply vanished from the memory banks?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: NYT Slaps Obama For Failure to Reach Across the Aisle. (Sigh.)] Reference

The mighty Richard Littlejohn seems to have vanished from the Sun's website.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-06-20] Reference

The skill appears to have vanished from the current generation of DC writers.    From Wordnik.com.  [DC January 2010: Red Tornado #5, House of Mystery #21, Titans #21 » Comics Worth Reading] Reference

Down all time, the weak and effeminate males had vanished from the world-stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER 8] Reference

But the expression vanished immediately; Hare-lip blinked and licked his split lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autumn] Reference

He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Child by John Hart: Book summary] Reference

The old Heathen cults had completely vanished from the Greek capital long before her death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Then, too, as soon as I came up into the forest all the anguish and pain vanished entirely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl from the Marsh Croft] Reference

All servility vanished from the demeanour of the common people with whom I came in contact.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE DESCENT] Reference

When I refused, she vanished from the German set, taking with her some of the original tapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Some were in radio contact with would-be rescuers before their voices vanished from the airways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comer, Howard B. Jr.] Reference

The hardness of her expression vanished on the instant, and in its stead was a wonderful tenderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

The three year-old vanished from a Portuguese holiday resort on 3 May 2007 but has never been found.    From Wordnik.com.  [FSN World News Feed] Reference

But the expression vanished suddenly, and then the abrupt contrast showed Maskull the real Leehallfae.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage to Arcturus] Reference

It was shortly after this year that I vanished from the literary scene, focusing on work and real life.    From Wordnik.com.  [smaller and smaller circles] Reference

Sandoval sat Thursday and was in Friday's tentative lineup, but his name vanished when the lineup was revised.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Gradually her face grew rigid, and the expression vanished from her deep eyes, till they looked dull and glassy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sant' Ilario] Reference

The color came up beautifully in her pale cheeks as she pressed the hand and without a word vanished from the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power] Reference

Her body was found at the bottom of a cliff, three days after her eldest son had vanished from the face of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ninth Life of Louis Drax: Summary and book reviews of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen.] Reference

As his eye caught hers the expression vanished, the mask-like face returned; he set the children down, and moved away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colonel Starbottle's Client] Reference

The Neanderthals populated the Near East and Europe until they vanished from the fossil record about 30,000 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neanderthals and humans interbred, fossils indicate] Reference

When you stop trying to read it, you feel a bit like someone's just vanished from the room and stopped talking to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Nation by Terry Pratchett] Reference

The fiendishness of his expression vanished like lightning, and he lounged out of the cafe with a moody, impassive face.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Set of Six] Reference

The falcons, along with bald eagles and brown pelicans, nearly vanished from the wild before the pesticide DDT was banned in 1972.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peregrine Falcon: Gulf Oil Spill Effects Concern Scientists For Bird Once Nearly Wiped Out By Pesticides] Reference