To left and right the cloudbanks were a deep purple blue, fast fading into the dim warm grey of an Italian night.

He had not seen the light fade, and had perhaps fallen asleep and seen and talked with that old sea monster in a dream.

They are mere Yankee boasting" She stopped suddenly, the slight flush fading from her cheeks as she arose to her feet, staring out through the open window.

V. be dim, grow dim &c adj.; flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower; fade; pale, pale its ineffectual fire

He saw the flush fade from her cheeks, and the pallor spread.

Waiting, she looked out through the window and saw the glow fade from the snowy crest of The Hill.

And should the lad his fate upbraid, Although he ignominious fade And in an alien country die? Will for him the beauteous maid Complaining cry? LERMONTOFF.

Who would dream the fountain stole Its tints, and if the sun no more were bright Would instant fade to its own pallid white?

But now a heaviness beneath the blue eyes,a little fading of her brightnessa little droop of the beautifully shaped mouth,almost betrayed her seven and thirty years; and the soft, abundant, brown hair was threaded quite perceptibly with silver.

Isn't it bad enough to feel so?" "The loveliest fade earliest, we all know," and the tears were in his honest, frivolous eyes, dashed away in the next moment as he exclaimed, eagerly, "Why, there goes the Lamarque equipage, as I live!

Those of mixed blood fade early, and are not generally a fine race.

As I write, I see the pale spring sunset fade between the tree-stems; the garden glimmers in the dusk; the lights peep out in the hamlet; the birds wing their way home across the calm sky-spaces.

Catrina Lanovitch watched the rosiness fade into pearly gray.

They are mere Yankee boasting" She stopped suddenly, the slight flush fading from her cheeks as she arose to her feet, staring out through the open window.

I saw them embark to pass the mighty river, and never will that solemn spectacle fade from my remembrance!

" The lofty oak this answer made: "The fairest flowers the soonest fade.

But the morn, though sweet and fair; Sweeter is when thou art there; Hymning stars successive fade, Fairies hurtle through the shade, Lovelorn flowers I weeping see, If the scene is touched by thee.

The girl's eyes traveled swiftly about her; he saw the quick rise and fall of her bosom, the swift fading of the color in her cheeks, the affrighted glow in her eyes as they came back big and questioning to him.

The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade; Die to themselves.

Wondrous light, more wondrous shading; High relief in faintness fading; Branching streams, like silver veins, Meet and part in dells and plains.

On the morning after my mad and premature elation, it is but too plain that the fever has laid hold of her too, and in its parching, withering clasp, our unstained lily fades.

The glow of his fancy fades with the suddenness of a southern sunset.

Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.