Citations:faded


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But, they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.
 * But she had scarcely entered, when another woman, similarly laden, came in too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded black, who was no less startled by the sight of them, than they had been upon the recognition of each other.
 * But the gallantry of her friends would not allow of this; and the man in faded black, mounting the breach first, produced his plunder.