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The square slopes gently towards the entrance, surrounded by pearls, the visitors descends fadingly into the building like entering an ocean.
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Even when her mother was alive, fadingly, he helped Lianne think of her in clearer outline.
Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007
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Up and down the meadow where the sheep graze echo, fadingly as afterthoughts, the cries of quail.
From the Greek 1998
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"Someday," a mental shout stabbed fadingly at Flinx, "I'll even be strong enough to come back for you."
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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"Someday," a mental shout stabbed fadingly at Flinx, "I'll even be strong enough to come back for you."
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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"Someday," a mental shout stabbed fadingly at Flinx, "I'll even be strong enough to come back for you."
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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"Someday," a mental shout stabbed fadingly at Flinx, "I'll even be strong enough to come back foryou."
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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And what image was ever more delicately exquisite, what movement more fadingly accordant with the sense, than in the last two verses of the following passage?
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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I would like to punch Heidi in her over tanned, fadingly beautiful face.
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As in childhood the glow of distant London had affected him to a pleasure that was not without pain, perhaps to a pain rather that was a fine delirium, so in his early manhood the neighbourhood of the huge city, felt in those midnight walks of his, and apprehended more by the transmutive shudder of reflected glare thrown fadingly upward against the stars, than by any more direct vision or even far-borne indeterminate hum, dominated his imagination.
Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897
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