" "Better and better," remarked Jerry, who had been known on occasion to flunk when it came to drudgery, and wanted to be fishing or roaming pretty much all the day, and every day.

"She flunked twice in French and was impudent to Madame," whispered Bobby, who knew all the school gossip.

To-day Betty found it impossible to fix her mind on the brisk discussions, and half in a dream heard Libbie flunk dismally.

I'll be all right, and in the morning the girls will find the card and know I didn't flunk.

I wasn't going to flunk on that, you can bet, but I thought if I told them about the footprint they'd let Westy and me off for a little while, because if a scout is after a merit badge he can usually get leave all right.

Change of Heart.~ I knew he cut his classes, and I'd heard him flunk in history, And how he dared say "not prepared" so often was a mystery.

[stop going to school involuntarily] flunk out; be dismissed &c Adj.

699 [Obs.]; scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U.S.].

V. fail; be unsuccessful &c adj.; not succeed &c 731; make vain efforts &c n.; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U.S.]; lose one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; wash a blackamoor white &c (impossible) 471; roll the stones of Sisyphus &c (useless) 645; do by halves &c (not complete) 730; lose ground &c (recede) 282; fall short of &c 304.

" "Some day, Eric," grinned Carroll, "I'm going to throw you downI'm going to flunk on a case.

It was a flunk, and that was all there was to it.

It would not prevent the flunk.

There was nothing to be done but flunk.

Since he was sure to flunk in his examinations, why endure the afternoon's torture, which could not but be worse than the morning's?

I made a dead flunk at recitations for two days.

But he flunked so many courses he will have to drop back a year unless he makes up the work and takes examinations in the fall.

I don't see" "Neither Tony or Larry ever flunked a college course.

I am not going to flunk it.

"You a man, and not stan' by your color, and flunk under to mean white ways!

One afternoon, at a football game, he came up to her on the grandstand, shook hands with Jermain Fiske, whom he had flunked innumerable times in algebra, and remarked in his most acid voice that he wished to congratulate the young man on being the perfect specimen of the dolichocephalic blond whose arrival in Sylvia's life he had predicted years before.

Long ago, in his first year at college, he had flunked the examination of the professor whom he reverenced above all others.

"Yes," replied Gladys, "and do you remember the time you predicted I was going to flunk math at midyears and I took the prize?"

When he had done it he looked down at me, and then he went back up stairs a-follered by the flunk, which last pretty soon came down ag'in an' told me I was to go up.

The flunk was all ready to show me out, an' he did it so expeditious, though quite polite, that I didn't git no chance to take a good look at the furniter and carpets, which I'd 'a' liked to have done.

It's full of rather tough problems, but I'm not going to flunk or fail in it." XXV The Spider Snares Trove and Spinnel were in Hillsborough soon after sunrise the morning of that memorable day.