fade away

• “At that moment I was at my lowest; the pale, haughty face and the soft voice seemed to fade away before me; all I was conscious of was a sullen anger, and a deep resolve that wherever I went, it would not be India - not for a thousand Cardigans.”

  Flashman

• “Before long, historically, you'll fade away entirely-especially if you keep killing one another off.”

  Dragon on a Pedestal

• “TONY JONES: What is the situation now regarding the supporters of Reinado, he's a charismatic leader, now that he's dead is the assumption that they may fade away or be easier to deal with.”

  Interview on ABC Lateline - Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs

• “The observances of fetish-worship fade away into the customs and habits of everyday life by gradations, so that in some of the superstitious beliefs, while there may be no formal handling of a fetish amulet containing a spirit nor actual prayer nor sacrifice, nevertheless spiritism is the thought and is more or less consciously held, and consequently the term fetish might perhaps be extended to them.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “Some of these ghost-like creatures were twenty or thirty feet long, but it was difficult to tell their girth, for their outline was so hazy that it seemed to fade away into the air around them.”

  The Horror of the Heights

• “And we cannot make all your troubles fade away because of the free-choice rule . . . we can only offer a defense against the darkness.”

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender the Dark

• “Slowly, slowly, I watched the grey turrets of the manor-house fade away in the dusk; the hills grew indistinct, and suddenly we saw the little twinkling light that we knew was the lamp in Longfield parlor, shine out like a glow-worm across the misty fields.”

  John Halifax, Gentleman

• “If, then, in words that sound and fade away thou didst say that heaven and earth should be made, and thus madest heaven and earth, then there was already some kind of corporeal creature before heaven and earth by whose motions in time that voice might have had its occurrence in time.”

  Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler

• “Backwoods distilling did not fade away with leaded gasoline and AM radio; it transformed.”

  Simon & Schuster: CHASING the WHITE DOG

• “Surmise and suspicion feed on the unusual, and when a man goes about his business along the usual rut, they soon fade away for lack of nourishment.”

  Old Gorgon Graham

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