The land was black beneath them, but for faint specks of light that here and there flamed in a second plane of stars.

I guess there's a finite chance that's Sol, with Earth/looting nearby, a faint speck in the cosmos.

Looking up from her board, Aili saw faint specks dotting the ocean surface.

Arutha squinted and made out a faint white speck against the blue of the sky.

Arutha said nothing, watching the faint speck in the distance.

A faint black speck on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.

One of the faint specks lying in the direction now ahead of the ship was a yellow-white dwarf star, a thousand light-years away.

On the seventh try, an almost invisible string of faint specks appeared.

As he watched a faint speck lifted from the fields close by the building and came toward them.

It was first spotted as a "faint reddish speck of light" in 2004 by the VLT.