Silence followed, except for that faint scrape of a key outside the front door.

A faint scrape sounded in the passage as the next messenger whisked into view.

The faint scrape of leather on concrete alerted her.

The silence was broken only by the faint scrape of chopsticks on wood for a long moment.

There was no sound save the occasional faint scrape of their boots on the hardened earth.

The sound came again, a faint scrape and then-a voice.

A moment later, there was the faint scrape of the bolts.

The faint scrape of fingers on his door came precisely at three minutes to four the next morning.

She traced the faint scrape of a boot on a sandy bank.

And then there was the very faint scrape of a chair being wedged under the door handle.