Cascading steps, buoyant on cushions of light, recede far into the distance.

Danilov listened as the enormous ensign's thudding steps receded.

"Chadan, suh," said the voice of Whittaker, and his steps receded on the deck outside.

His face turned toward the darkening earth, he heard the hurried steps recede, recede ... and then die out.

The steps receded.

As soon as his steps receded, the tension of the four comrades relaxed.

He locked the door behind me and his steps receded.

There was a pause, then the foot- steps receded.

Something else was said which Fleurette did not catch, and the steps receded in the direction of the front of the house.

She turned, and her steps receded.