Which preposition to use with failed

in Occurrences 1063%

Failing in this, down he plunged fifty feet straight towards the bottom, making the reel hiss by his mad efforts to escape.

of Occurrences 444%

There is a god-like way of tradeChrist might Himself have bought and soldelse Christianity fails of its full mission, and there remains a class of the socially lost, of the ethically unsaved.

at Occurrences 76%

It is frequently incorrect and barbarous in style, obscure in places, and even fails at times to give the exact sense of the original.

for Occurrences 74%

" It was curious that the King should have gone before the old Pope, who had been failing for some time.

on Occurrences 42%

After she had tried and failed on half a dozen different compositions, she gave up the attempt, and they roamed upstairs, looking through one room after another until Billie accidentally opened the door that led to the attic.

from Occurrences 35%

Begorra, I think, if I drunk a glass of ale just now, my two legs would fail from under me immadiatelyI am that wake."

with Occurrences 34%

The first, after several unsuccessful efforts, he had found unattainable by means of matrimony, and he turned his thoughts towards Annette, whom he had for some months held in reserve, in the event of his failing with Eve and Grace, for on both these heiresses had he entertained designs, as a pis aller.

through Occurrences 33%

One or two impostors were raised against him, France making anxious efforts to prolong the troubles of her dangerous neighbor; but the attempts failed through the utter completeness of the aristocracy's exhaustion.

under Occurrences 25%

They have never failed under a strain of this kind, and they will not fail now.

as Occurrences 24%

I had failed as a leader of these men, and I had been forced to stand by at debauching, cruel, and murderous affairs, but now it is over I thank Heaven the reproach cannot be made against me that at any time I counted the consequences to myself.

before Occurrences 20%

It was at night that the mutinous sailors of Columbus broke into decisive revolt; it was at night that the iron band of Cortes lost heart, and were routed on the lakes of Mexico; it was at night that the resolution of Brutus failed before the disaster at Philippi.

to Occurrences 20%

The took part in the , but failed to any of the game.

by Occurrences 17%

And the mediaeval monkish tale fails by reason of the discursiveness and huddling together of incidents, without regard to their dramatic values, which the moral application necessitates.

after Occurrences 9%

They occupied some villages, but their attack on Verdun has failed after terrible losses.

against Occurrences 7%

"Prepared to ignore the British as being driven out of the fight, they were initiating an effort to attack the left flank of the main French army, which stretched in a long curved line from our right toward the east, and so to carry out against it alone an envelopment which so far had failed against the combined forces of the Allies.

without Occurrences 7%

This necessity, my lords, I am not ashamed to assert after him; nor can I think it consistent with common prudence, in the present situation of our affairs, to defer the third reading beyond to-morrow; for the supplies which this bill must produce, are to be employed in attempts of the utmost importance, and which cannot fail without the ruin of a great part of mankind, and an irreparable injury to this nation.

like Occurrences 6%

Liberty unacquired, merely found, will on the test fail like the Dead-Sea-apple or the magician's plenty.

beneath Occurrences 5%

Alexandre who was close in the rear, almost touching him so as not to lose him, certainly detected the void and the gust which followed the fall, as with sudden horror the flooring failed beneath them; but force of motion carried him on, he stepped forward in his turn, howled and likewise fell, head over heels.

within Occurrences 4%

She shivered too, and drew close to the rock for shelter, and gazed at the awful cliffs rising out of the gloom, and the paths that disappeared at her feet, leading down, down into that abyss; and her heart failed within her to think that below there were souls that suffered, and that the Father and the Son were not there.

during Occurrences 4%

Having failed during a peaceful fight of over forty years, to hurl German autocracy and militarism out of the world, these hot-headed pioneers of liberty (Kaiserdom?) wish to destroy the very State which was their place of refuge when German "liberty" overwhelmed them with its kindly attentions.

about Occurrences 2%

The foot-hill pastures, as we have seen, fail about the end of May, those of the chaparral belt and lower forests are in full bloom in June, those of the upper and alpine region in July, August, and September.

into Occurrences 2%

The only appreciable sounds were the dripping and tinkling of water failing into pools or faintly plashing on the crystal floors.

toward Occurrences 2%

He read the hastily scrawled note aloud with a tone that failed toward the end.

towards Occurrences 2%

Moreover, Marie was indignant that the Marquis constantly evinced towards her son a consideration in which he sometimes failed towards herself; and, finding her position becoming daily more onerous, she at length resolved to accomplish a reconciliation, not only with the King, but even with the minister, on any terms which she could obtain.

until Occurrences 2%

Except at the very commencement of the war, when production of craft in Germany was slow, presumably as a result of the comparatively small number under construction when war broke out, the British measures failed until towards the end of 1917 in sinking submarines at a rate approaching in any degree that at which the Germans were producing them.

Which preposition to use with  failed