"She's up there," he said, and pointed to the faint smudge of light.
I could see a faint brown smudge in the air about twenty miles away.
He could make out the faint smudges of two cars his own and probably Francine's.
Far away toward the horizon was the faint smudge on the land marking the base camp.
He found a faint smudge here, a piece of a track there, and he turned to look back.
He looked around the hole bubble, trying to make out detail in the faint smudges of white against black infinity.
Almost touching it on a photographic plate is a very faint smudge.
Then, after a moment, he moved a short distance away, and again shot his light on a faint smudge which stained the yellow wood floor.
In the distance the two men could begin to see the faint smudge of the coast.
To the north, a faint smudge of gray marred the sky's royal blue.