From about 1857 it faded steadily, disappearing to the unaided eye only about 1870.
Mr. Cook's popularity in the district faded steadily after a series of episodes that included temper tantrums, staff turnovers, a jury finding that he owed a former consultant almost $200,000 and most recently, a boisterous encounter with Mr. Smith on a Salt Lake City sidewalk.
Nonetheless, the president's promise of an extended offensive against terrorism has already given renewed purpose -- and consequence -- to the Reserve Officer Training Corps, an 85-year-old program that had been fading steadily since the end of the cold war.
In all 3 countries, traditional methods were very dominant at the start, fading steadily over the years.
In recent decades, references to Marxism-Leninism have steadily faded from its propaganda.
Yet unlike Frank Sinatra's or Elvis's, Liberace's legacy has steadily faded as his audience has aged.
But euphoria has steadily faded as preparations for 2014 have drawn attention to the persistent ills of corruption, cronyism, inequality and public insecurity.
But attention and sales have steadily faded, and this month Mr. King decided to call it quits, at least for a while, explaining on his Web site that he needs to work on other, more conventional books.
He had, though, begun to steadily fade from the N.F.L. landscape.
The corals then spit them out, stop producing their carbonate shell and steadily fade to white.
But in those same years, Yonkers Raceway has done nothing but steadily fade into an economic Palookaville.
