To their "finer female sense," what is the appeal of that Evanescing spectacle, as the noise of the cheering and the laughing and the clapping of hands rises to them at some more rocket-like explosion of oratory?
"Imaginary Interviews"
W. D. Howells
The chico, corresponding in a Spanish hotel to a piccolo in Germany or a page in England, or our own now Evanescing bell-boy, was to get a peseta for bringing me the letter.
"Familiar Spanish Travels"
W. D. Howells
Yet she was sometimes actually to be encountered at the head of the stairs from the kitchen, or Evanescing from the parlor; and somehow the house was operated; the meals came and went, and the smell of their coming and going filled the hall-way from the ground floor to the attic.
"The Coast of Bohemia"
William Dean Howells