Fainter

Examples

• An idea is by its very nature weaker and fainter than an impression; but being in every other respect the same, cannot imply any very great mystery. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. Plato. The Republic.
• The deeper he sank into this silence, the fainter hope there was--or so Darnay thought--of his softening in any slight degree. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But it had a preponderating tendency, when considered, to become fainter. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was fainter and duller. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I was weak and faint when you brought me in, and I am fainter now you take me out. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The sound of the wheels grew fainter in the distance--the cab melted into the black shadows on the road--the woman in white was gone. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Fainter now, though. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She flushed deeper and deeper, and was burning red when she replied in a fainter voice, 'I do not think that likely, either. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Nearer the center of the tree, where the signs of passage are fainter, the direction is plainly marked. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It came back by fits, but those grew fainter and returned at lengthening intervals. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Now shake the flask and note that the sound is very much fainter than at first. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Her sister, meanwhile, was having children with finer names every year and the intercourse between the two grew fainter continually. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They were overclouded again, they were fainter, they were gone; but they had been there. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Down, down with him, fifty fathoms down; his struggles grew fainter and fainter, until they wholly ceased. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• As I grew still fainter, I prayed for Ponsonby's eternal happiness, as though I had felt he required my prayers. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A little fainter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His struggles grew fainter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I have had my doubts, I confess; but they are fainter than they were, and they may soon be entirely done away. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• When I oppose the Imagination to the memory, I mean the faculty, by which we form our fainter ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• His voice became fainter as he spoke; and at length, exhausted by his effort, he sunk into silence. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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