Fading

Examples

• But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Jos was as vain of his person as a woman, and took as long a time at his toilette as any fading beauty. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• By and by, I noticed Wemmick's arm beginning to disappear again, and gradually fading out of view. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The last of the evening light was fading away; and over all the desolate place there hung a still and awful calm. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• YOUR varnish is fading. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And then the red had the appearance of fading out of it and mounting up to Heaven, as we say that blood, guiltily shed, does. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Solutions of potassium iodide were frequently used for this purpose, giving a sharp, blue record, but fading away too rapidly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If we examine such a spectrum we find the following colors in order, each color imperceptibly fading into the next: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I thought all this very pretty and engaging, and Steerforth seemed to think so too, as we looked after them fading away in the light of a young moon. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And all the while, Ursula, spell-bound, kept up her high-pitched thin, irrelevant song, which pierced the fading evening like an incantation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• How much of it was owing to the spell of the perfect afternoon, the scent of the fading woods, the thought of the dulness she had fled from? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• For my own poor part, the fading summer left me out of health, out of spirits, and, if the truth must be told, out of money as well. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The fluid brightens instead of fading the colors. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I took a revel of the scene; I drank the elastic night-air--the swell of sound, the dubious light, now flashing, now fading. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Interposed between her and the fading light of day in the now quiet street, his shadow falls upon her, and he darkens all before her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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