Philostratus takes pains to point out that the celebrated Apollonius of Tyana was definitely not a " magus ", " despite his special knowledge of the future, his miraculous cures, and his ability to vanish into thin air ".
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Prior to the advent of the nationalist armies of the 19th century, desertion rates in European armies were so high that, according to historian Geoffrey Parker, " at certain times, almost an entire army would vanish into thin air ."
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And they have come to realize that we are just few drops of water in the ocean; if we faunt our superiority and raise a storm, we will just accelerate the process of evaporation and vanish into thin air like so much dust.
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It seemed hard to believe that so many years of intimacy could simply vanish into thin air, but after an argument in Lynn's kitchen and an exchange of letters in which we held nothing back, Lynn and I agreed that our friendship was essentially over.
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And just to make sure we understand the precariousness of life, she kills off several characters in contrived succession : two have died in an airplane crash, one in a car accident, one gets cancer and another goes out to buy groceries and vanishes into thin air.
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Trevithick, on his way back to the retirement home, is attacked by one of the insectoid aliens from the first " Nightshade " serial, but it vanishes into thin air when Lowcock and Yeadon return retching and fainting, and claiming that they were unable to leave the village.
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Every time I take the 5 : 24 p . m . train out of Penn Station, from New York to New Brunswick, N . J ., a woman wearing ballet shoes clears a way through the crowd making its way toward the platform and, once there, executes two pirouettes on point and vanishes into thin air.
