Even a faint promise of shelter away from the wind was to be sought.

I considered other possibilities, including some of those explored by Bascom, and one seemed to offer at least a faint promise.

A flat yellow plain stretched to the long far horizon, while the sky above it was traced the faint promise of blue mountains.

The corridor ended abruptly in a plain, black door, exactly like all the other doors, that held not the faintest promise of anything important beyond.

This tuber seemed like a faint promise of Nature to rear her own children and feed them simply here at some future period.

The same umbrella trees stood stately and serene in the faint promise of dawn.

The skies were clearing and there was a faint promise of a moon.

This faint promise of hope was no more compelling than the wallowing in despair that had preceded it.

When he returned the dawn was a faint red promise in the eastern sky.

The bouquet was only a faint promise of the liquid wonder.