Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Disappear

Disappear like phantoms.
—Anonymous

Disappearing at day break like foul night-birds of an unclean dream.
—William Cowper Brann

Disappears like dew on a June morning.
—Edward G. Buffum

Slowly disappearing, like a day dream.
—Charles Stuart Calverley

Disappeared like a shadow.
—Adelbert von Chamisso

Disappeared … like a man overtaken by an avalanche.
—Joseph Conrad

Disappeared, like the shadow thrown by a passing cloud.
—Charles Dickens

Disappeared, like a cloud driven by the wind.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Disappeared, like a passing gleam.
—George Eliot

Disappear like a tale that is told.
—Simeon Ford

Disappeared like a shape in a vision Thomas Hardy

Disappeared, as a shadow melting into air.
—Victor Hugo

Disappeared like buttered crumpets.
—Leigh Hunt

Disappeared like a shot.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

Disappeared like print held too close to the eye.
—Arthur Ransome

Disappear,
Like dew late strewn through the trembling grass.
—Hayden Sands

Appeared and disappeared like a succession of lightning flashes.
—José Selgas

Disappeared as if he had vanished in the air.
—José Selgas

Disappear, as if all had vanished through the sky.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley