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a faint sigh of regret then smiled
She breathed a faint sigh of regret, then smiled mockingly.
— from Marjorie Dean, High School Senior by Josephine Chase

any further signs of recognizing the speaker
Without showing any further signs of recognizing the speaker, Polly reached for the paper, but the next instant her frightened cry for Mollie brought her sister, Sylvia Wharton, and half a dozen other persons to her side.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows by Margaret Vandercook

a fire shot out revealing the seated
Shoulders glossy as brown silk were faintly luminous in the twilight, as we looked down the house; from time to time a fire shot out, revealing the seated group around, lively enough, but subdued.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, May 1885 by Various

a faint sound of rumbling that seemed
This was followed by a faint sound of rumbling, that seemed to come from the interior of the house.
— from Jimbo: A Fantasy by Algernon Blackwood

A faint smile or rather the slightest
A faint smile, or rather the slightest yielding of the rigidness of her alabaster features, denoted a not unkind recognition.
— from Deborah: A tale of the times of Judas Maccabaeus by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow

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