In each case the need of skill vanished and the power of capital advanced.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
He evidently spoke jokingly and there was so much spite in his voice that the last hope that the real Medinet was before him vanished in the boy's heart.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Their source of physical supply vanished, the Eskimos unconsciously feel the grim hand of want, of starvation, which means death, upon them.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook