faint

I have, as my friend Watson may have remarked, an abnormally acute set of senses, and a faint but incisive scent was apparent.

The house was as still as still, but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch-scratch in the world--a noise as faint as that of a wasp walking on a window-pane--the dry scratch of a snake’s scales on brick-work.

First the look of despair faded out; then came a faint flush of hope; her eyes grew deep and bright as morning stars.

This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance.