What that woman, that nervous, pretty, faded-looking woman, had done after fourteen years of marriage, Athena could certainly do now.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
She rose, and her color flared and faded.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Early on the morning of September 3, I bade farewell to Mr. Bradley, and not long afterward the yacht moved slowly southward and faded gradually into the distant southern horizon.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook