spirit away

Instead of shutting their doors and pouring some pre-Christian version of holy water around their houses to keep the spirits away, people would often do the exact opposite.

They moved forward, relentlessly, ever bent, following a hulking machine with a conveyor belt that spirited away their fruit.

Agents intercepted text messages in which Facey and Sanchez talked about using a private plane to spirit away an underling who had narrowly avoided arrest in Anchorage, prosecutors wrote in the bail motion.

Later on the day it appeared, refuse collectors arrived to spirit away the fridge-freezer.

While the gobies were spirited away to safety, another fish of top concern remained in danger.