High color receded from her complexion, leaving it milk-white and smooth.

Then the music began, and gradually his color receded, for no one was looking at him anymore: Liane was dancing between the fires.

Darkness made colors recede.

His lordship's color receded and he looked up at James with a startled air.

His heightened colour was receding.

The general continued to stare at Smith, but his high color receded.

The colour heightened then receded in her face, and she released him, sat back, startled.

He nodded, the high color receding slightly from his cheeks.

She was breathing easier, and her color had receded a little.

His high color receded, leaving a white line around his mouth.