Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Dissolve

Dissolved like a mimic castle of morning frost when the sun exerts himself.
—Anonymous

Dissolved like an unsubstantial pageant.
—George Eliot

Dissolved, like a fragment of ice that melts in the summer sea.
—Henry Van Dyke

Dissolve like smoke.
—Paul Verlaine