The steel blade itself was of that immaculate white-silver quality, and its circumference was decorated with the most delicate, faint tracings.

His skin was slightly mottled over one cheek, she noted; the light played on the faint tracings of lighter skin, as though there had once been markings there.

I see some faint blue tracings, yes.

He noticed faint tracings of mathematics under the prayers.

Her name and the date of her death, at one time deeply etched in the marble and in the hearts of those who buried her, were now worn and faint tracings in our lives.

Tam caught my thought and held her gem down to those faint tracings.

Their shadows left faint tracings on the walls, which I watched all through the bright, moonlit hours of that first night home.

His eyebrows were only faint tracings of silvery brown.

He was pallid, his skin so pale she could see the faint tracings of his veins.

The zigzag paths resembled faint tracings scratched on the wall of a cyclopean blockhouse.