1 His eyes grew brighter, and a faint colour came into his cheeks.
2 The laboratory grew faint and hazy, then fainter and ever fainter.
3 I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.
4 The last few yards was a frightful struggle against this faintness.
5 I felt faint and cold when I faced the empty space among the black tangle of bushes.
6 Above me, in the intense blue of the summer sky, some faint brown shreds of cloud whirled into nothingness.
7 The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air.
8 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.
9 Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars.
10 Then, as my vigil wore on, came a faintness in the eastward sky, like the reflection of some colourless fire, and the old moon rose, thin and peaked and white.
11 For some way I heard nothing but the crackling twigs under my feet, the faint rustle of the breeze above, and my own breathing and the throb of the blood-vessels in my ears.
12 Then, still smiling faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory.