fainter

Because these two animals are the chief characters, they must be painted in fainter colors – they should be suggested rather than presented in detail.

The Art of the Story-Teller 1915

The more distant the body part—for instance, the eye sockets or the neck—the fainter was the image recorded on the Shroud.

The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010

"effacement;" the closer the gradual union becomes the fainter is the self-personality, till at length it fades away entirely, and is merged and lost as a drop in the illimitable sea.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

I suppose most unmarried men who have reached, or passed, the age of thirty -- and I was then thirty-three -- experience a milder return of their adolescent warmth, a kind of fainter second spring, since the first has not fulfilled its promise.

Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 Various

I suppose most unmarried men who have reached, or passed, the age of thirty -- and I was then thirty-three -- experience a milder return of their adolescent warmth, a kind of fainter second spring, since the first has not fulfilled its promise.

Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 Various 1902

So that after two refractions and one reflection, there is propagated a kind of fainter

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

Medics come aboard in L.A. with a wheelchair for the fainter, who is tended at the gate in a surreal scene, as photographers, bloggers and guests gather for a special Fly Girls party flight to Las Vegas.

Fly Girls: TV series follows flight attendants at home and in the air 2010

In future collections, I’d love to try and channel different sorts of voices, older, fainter, stranger voices.

A Conversation with Karen Russell author of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves 2010

RETURN TO THE WHORL by Gene Wolfe: The faint, blinking star that old people call the Whorl is fainter than ever.

The Best Endings in Science Fiction 2009

Ripper's tongue lolled out, bringing to her face a dogsmile, with angry shouts getting fainter and fainter and Ripper ran and ran.

February 1975 Lansing, MICHIGAN Michael K. White 2011