The smoke was black; forbidding in the pale, sweet light of the fading afternoon.

In the fading afternoon the Costello ranch looked mighty pretty.

No sound disturbed the fading afternoon, and then, at the door of our cabin, a body.

Lan fell silent and looked away into the fading afternoon, and his voice changed.

The place was nearly empty when Rickey Henderson walked across the outfield grass and disappeared into the fading afternoon.

A short while later the troll had a campfire flickering, pale and spectral in the last potent sunbeams of the fading afternoon.

Disregarding my efforts to free myself, he turned my face from one side to the other, so the fading afternoon light shone on it.

Late autumn winds sighed fitfully around the open gatehouse door, rustling brown gold leaves in the fading afternoon.

The fading afternoon drew a net of shadows across her path as she turned onto the silent road that led up to the College.

Smedjebakken asked as we sat in the light of a fading afternoon.