200 collocations for failed

Doth thine arm fail thee so soon?

Deep and painful were the anticipations of the deacon, in whom failing health, and a near approach to the "last of earth," came to increase the gloom.

He had failed once; he could not afford, by deputy, to fail a second time.

As I never failed a friend, so I never yet forgave a foe.

There hath not failed one word of all His promise!"

Above all and in spite of everything, she must not fail the man she loved!

He refers for the conclusion to his original, hight "Dant," the "grete poete of Itaille;" adding, that Dante will not fail his readers a single wordthat is to say, not an atom of the cruelty.

Even very old men, who had known this country the longest, said that the smoke from this pit had never failed a single day to rise heavenward.

Whether I break our law I know not; but I would forfeit life hereI would forfeit life hereafter, rather than fail a soul that rests on mine at such a moment.

" Feeble good-nature, and selfish unwillingness to disturb any existing habits or conventions, make up his character: "In him his flock found nothing to condemn; Him sectaries likedhe never troubled them: No trifles failed his yielding mind to please, And all his passions sunk in early ease; Nor one so old has left this world of sin, More like the being that he entered in.

The Doctor informed us that the crop on his estate had almost totally failed, on account of the droughtbeing reduced from one hundred and fifty hogsheads, the average crop, to fifteen!

Forest King had never failed its master hitherto, and Bertie would have been saved by his faithful steed, but for the fact that a blackguardly turf welcher doctored the horse's mouth, and Forest King was beaten, and couldn't finish the course.

Language indeed failed Mr. Wilks in describing it, and, pressed for details, he could only murmur disjointedly of satin-wood, polished brass, and crimson velvet.

It was the weeping of men who were utterly purposed never to fail their king.

" Words failed the captain; none with which he was acquainted seemed forcible enough for the occasion.

I cannot fail my master's needs.

God never fails his children.

By another law, marriage is inculcated on moral grounds, and the master of the slave is required to purchase the wife, so that they may both be under one roof; if he declines the honour, then the owner of the wife is to purchase the husband; and if that fails, a third party is to buy both: failing all these efforts, the law appears non-plused, and leaves their fate to Providence.

That the Committee of Award, after a careful study of these and other recommendations, failed to confirm individual high estimates is but another illustration of the disagreement of doctors.

If I fail this examination, they won't renew my scholarship.

One part of his purpose, that of insuring his personal safety, was answered by it; but that of exciting the people against the English, failed insomuch, that I was told even the lowest classes, so far from giving credit to the malignant calumnies propagated against the English, openly regretted their arrestation.

"I have failed these people who asked for my help.

The shortest scrap of word-painting, as Thomson's "Seasons" will sufficiently prove, is wearisome and dead, unless there be a living figure in the landscape, or unless, failing a living figure, the scene is deliberately described with reference to the poet or the reader, not as something in itself, but as something seen by him, and grouped and subordinated exactly as it would strike his eye and mind.

Nor this, nor that, nor any such small cause But only, for this worthy knight durst prove To lose his crown rather than fail his love.

You need no more than to discover what a Man values himself for; then of all things admire that Quality, but be sure to be failing in it your self in comparison of the Man whom you court.

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