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• She has lost her Paradise even while Adam's was building--the Paradise where the flowers fade, and loves and hates are mortal In the poem itself signs are not wanting that Milton felt the terrible strain imposed upon him by the intense and prolonged abstraction of his theme--its unreality and superhuman elevation. —  Milton
• The day began to fade, and with the day the breeze fell also. —  The Secret of the Island
• Then as it reached and began to fade, as it were, into the mist, first one then another dark patch rose from the deck Hoisting sail," I said to myself. —  Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
• At last all seemed to fade, as it were, into a dreamless sleep It was like this here," Ike told me afterwards. —  Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden
• It was like a yachting experience In those latitudes the glories of the sunset very quickly fade, and with their disappearance night falls upon the scene like the drawing of a curtain. —  The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn

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