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They now no longer displaced one another, but those which came first remained fadedly beside or behind the fresher appearances, like the earlier rainbow which loses depth and color when a later arch defines itself.

From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Howells, William Dean

He saw the word Isabel, quite legibly but still fadedly gilded upon a part of one side of the interior, where it made a projecting curve.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Besides, he liked going to church, above all when he sat in the Squire’s pew, which was sometimes as big as a boudoir and all fadedly upholstered p. 201to match. 

From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry