With three ships lost and the other three long disappeared to the south, Soleil determined to flee westwards, hoping the damage he had inflicted on Centaur's sails was sufficient to prevent her pursuit.
Shoes are piled up in a corner of the room, and the table has long disappeared under her impressive cosmetics collection.
The exhibition has Garnier drawings, the houses themselves having long disappeared, unlike the Eiffel Tower, Garnier's bugaboo.
And the Sumerians themselves had long disappeared into the multiracial mix that was ancient Iraq.
But in 2013 the roadblocks had long disappeared.
Island lore had it that the dredgers had long disappeared from these waters.
Watching the winking billions, long disappeared from my life back in New York City, I brushed a finger across my nose in grateful acknowledgment of the shared secret about Estonia before stepping back into the steaming sauna.
Working with a local photojournalism school, Funch planted 15 cameras at different locations in the small town to record what was going on at the exact moment of the implosion of Amelia Earhart Bridge, a recently condemned structure named for the town's long disappeared favorite daughter.
By the time the novel opens, in the 1990s, Cosey's has long disappeared, a casualty of the civil-rights movement and black upward mobility.
The pouting and the petulance -- like the losses -- have long disappeared.
