1 His voice faded off and Tom glanced impatiently around the garage.
2 Then the same half knowing, half bewildered look came back into his faded eyes.
3 A dim background started to take shape behind him but at her next remark it faded away.
4 We were all irritable now with the fading ale and, aware of it, we drove for a while in silence.
5 Eckleburg's faded eyes came into sight down the road, I remembered Gatsby's caution about gasoline.
6 Human sympathy has its limits and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
7 So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse next door.
8 Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness.
9 We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded gilt nineteen-hundreds.
10 For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened--then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.