4633 examples of failures in sentences

And so, PUNCHINELLO will do as others do, and will occasionally view, from the loop-hole in his curtain, the successes and failures of his neighbors, and will give his patrons the benefit of his observations.

They gathered at the docks and told one another they wouldn't leave Dawson for fifty thousand dollars, then looked at the "failures" with home-sick eyes, remembering those months before the luckiest Klondyker could hear from the world outside.

And yet there was between them and the common failures of the world one abiding difference: these had greatly dared.

He had achieved some memorable successes and he had made a few failures, but the failures belonged to the earlier portion of his career, before he had learnt to trust thoroughly in his own great gifts of intuition and insight, and that uncanny imagination which sometimes carried him successfully through when all else failed.

He had achieved some memorable successes and he had made a few failures, but the failures belonged to the earlier portion of his career, before he had learnt to trust thoroughly in his own great gifts of intuition and insight, and that uncanny imagination which sometimes carried him successfully through when all else failed.

"Mr. Fox, after the fiasco I have made of this affair, it costs me something to go into petty details which must suggest my former failures and may not strike you with the force they did me.

I will not weary my reader with any further detail of Willie's efforts and failures.

Sickened by the follies, the failures, the ferocities, the foulnesses of mankind, for ages upon ages past?

Unless the cook is very experienced and thoroughly understands her business, it is scarcely worth while to attempt to make this elaborate ornament, as it may be purchased quite as economically at a confectioner's, if the failures in the preparation are taken into consideration.

The Germans have known many failures since they began the War, but one failure is more tragic than all the rest.

All these and many more things must be learned slowly at the expense of many failures, especially when the cubs took to hunting alone and the old wolves were not there to show them how; but they never forgot the principle taught in that first rabbit drive,that two hunters are better than one to outwit any game when they hunt intelligently together.

The laws of the universe are there, but we are ignorant of them, and only through experience gained by repeated failures can we get any insight into the laws with which we have to deal.

If we know a law of Nature and work with it, we shall find it our unfailing friend, ever ready to serve us, and never rebuking us for past failures; but if we ignorantly or wilfully transgress it, it is our implacable enemy, until we again become obedient to it; and therefore the only redemption from perpetual pain and servitude is by a self-expansion which can grasp infinitude itself.

To have been thwarted once was shame enough, but he dared not risk two failures with one man.

One of the most pitiful aspects of cooperative failures is that one group after another will go on making the identical mistakes that have brought ruin to others.

Such failures as these are not really a test of genuine cooperation.

But it is significant that most of the recent cooperative failures have been among grocery stores.

The war since that first attemptadmirably planned and altogether justifiable (from a military point of view, I mean)of Germany to "rush" a victory, has consisted almost entirely of failures on both sides either to get round or through or over the situation foretold by Bloch.

The expedition was a succession of blunders and failures which were due more to the rude and undisciplined character of the material that Harmar had to work with than to his personal incapacity.

He was prepared for a thousand failures and disappointments before he alighted on the one place in which Mr. Holbrook's name must needs be known, the town or village nearest to the farm-house that had been lent to him.

SEE MORGAN, FRANK M. BREMER, C. D. American bank failures.

American bank failures.

Sharp Sword does not like failures any more than other people do, and he wants to think.

I have turned out a few men like that, and those are my worst failures.

The grievous failures of the church we cannot deny and must not palliate; it is of the utmost importance that she be brought face to face with them, and be made to see how far short she has come of her high calling.

4633 examples of  failures  in sentences