Cal walked closer to the door, hearing dim echoes of his footfalls.

Those wild feelings, she thought, had been shocked into stillness by this rejection, leaving only the dim echoes of what had been.

"Triphon" (1956) opens with bold, annunciatory single notes bowed on one string and repeated on another as dim echoes.

Presently, dim echoes from a departing car were faintly audible.

From far below came the dim echoes of an enormous splash.

Then she went blind, her eyes were boiled away with a soft, unfelt laser, and her mouth was a vapor of bone shards and dim echoes bouncing inside the tiny, almost poisonous cabin.

But the dim echoes of racing feet told The Shadow that Riker had not detoured back into a hospital corridor.

Of late he had half fancied he had caught the dim echoes of a knocking sound from far above that came down through it to his lair.

Yet the sound was real in Spotter's frenzied brain; and he trembled as he caught the dim echoes of that terrible token of disaster.

Evidently, several categories of human life remain only as dim echoes in the memory.