faint

Its faint gleam discovered to us a dark mass of water running at our feet.

We stared with all our eyes, and there, yes, there, far ahead of us, was a faint, glimmering spot, no larger than a cottage window pane.

It chanced that the face was towards me; the sightless eyes seemed to watch me; there was the faint shadow of a smile on the lips.

Above me, in the intense blue of the summer sky, some faint brown shreds of cloud whirled into nothingness.

For an instant, all was silence; even the bedlam of the forest died to a faint murmur.

For a moment the lioness remained quiet with intense gaze directed upon the flitting Esmeralda, whose goal appeared to be the cupboard, into which she attempted to propel her huge bulk; but as the shelves were but nine or ten inches apart, she only succeeded in getting her head in; whereupon, with a final screech, which paled the jungle noises into insignificance, she fainted once again.

"Our conclusion is that at bottom the distinction between image and percept, as respectively faint and vivid states, is based on a difference of quality.

He replaces them all by faint sensations, and especially by pronunciation of words sotto voce.