In her upturned palm, I could see a faint crescent -shaped burn: the imprint of part of the doorknob.

In the other, a scattering of smaller moons, faint crescents in the light of a too-distant sun.

The faint white crescent of its humorless grin.

A faint crescent of purple appeared where a human's smile would have been, and Telamont finished, "No need to feel bad about blurting it out.

Farther in the distance a faint crescent of glowing embers marked where the flames had consumed the sparse grass.

And in the sky a faint new crescent, blue and vague as a distant Alp, sank westward over the sun.

He sped out onto the highway, toward the distant humps of mountains, a sensuous dark line above which no stars became stars and the moon showed as a faint, white crescent of frown.

The hawk became a faint black crescent, then disappeared.

Drak-asha's smile was a crescent of white against darkness, faint as the foam topping the waves.

Utgar's grin was the faintest crescent of white against the shadows.