He struck his milk-white hand against a nail, Sees his own blood, and feels his courage fail.

"Nan!" "Yes, Laura," replied the girl, coming back with the third volume for the literary cormorant, who took it with a nod, still too intent upon the "Confessions of a Fair Saint" to remember the failings of a certain plain sinner.

Also she knew well her own physical failings.

but this once agreed on by both parties, each might have recourse to it; either to prove his own advantages, or discover the failings of his adversary.

There is an implicit repentance of sins that have not been distinctly seen and observed, as who can see and observe all their failings?

Once come to regard your failings, your sorrows and sufferings as so many voices telling you plainly where you are weak and faulty, where you fall below the true and the divine, you will then begin to ceaselessly watch yourself, and every slip, every pang of pain will show you where you are to set to work, and what you have to remove out of your heart in order to bring it nearer to the likeness of the Divine, nearer to the Perfect Love.

We must not despair; we have no cause to despair until we find these fail.

Ill tell thee, Fainall, she once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces, sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied em and got em by rote.

He inherited his father's failings, with some faint shadow, I have also understood, of the great qualities which have made the world tender of his father's vices and weaknesses.

There will be need; For honest men delight will take To spare your failings for his sake, 20 Will flatter you,and fool and rake Your steps pursue; And of your Father's name will make A snare for you.

Then his fader, ne lasse myht, To holden his pore men to ryht, Ant understonde good counsail, Al Engelond for to wysse and dyht; Of gode knyhtes darh him nout fail.

He heard of the curious blindness of authors that made it impossible for them to detect the most egregious failings in their own work, and it occurred to him that this might be his malady.

It is perhaps not quite seemly to discuss my brother's failings at this time, but we want to get at the truth about his death.

undress *desorden* m. disorder *despachar* finish; *se* be quick *despacho* m. office *despedir* dismiss *despego* m. aversion, coldness *despeñar* precipitate *desperdiciar* fail to make use of; waste *despertar(se)* awaken *despojos* m. pl. remains *después* after; afterwards; *

For a chary old soul is he, A chary old soul is he; Of Sack and Canary he never doth fail, And all the year round there is brewing of ale; Yet he never aileth, he quaintly doth say, While he keeps to his sober six flagons a day: But ho!

Like all strong and original characters, he had bitter enemies as well as admiring friends; and these enemies exaggerated his failings and his heretical opinions.

"O monsieur!" exclaimed the poor girl in her confusion, her best French failing, "it was nothingno living man.

By contrast, "the Turkish national movement does not exhibit the failings of the earlier movements.

while along the stream of time, thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant fail, Pursue the triumph and partake the gale?

Such a correspondence, therefore, places them so far in a false position, and it runs the risk of placing the sovereign himself in one equally false and unpleasant, since, if the opinions expressed or the advice given fail of their effect, the adviser is so far lowered in the eyes of his correspondent and of the world.

it is the fault of the unrighteous mammon; and, in dealing with the unrighteous mammon, we cannot help these little failings, and so forth: till they seem to have two quite different rules of right and wrong; one for the saving of their own souls, which they keep to when they are hearing sermons, and reading good books; and the other for money, which they keep to when they have to pay their debts or transact business.

Surely we should hide the failings of those we love?

Since nothing was being offered at the moment to draw a bid from him, he maintained a semblance of interest solely to cover his thoughts, meanwhile lending a civil ear to the garrulous tongue of a dealer of his acquaintance who, having edged nearer to indulge a failing for gossip, found a ready auditor.

And you know that we, like you, Will too late our failings rue? Tell me, ghoulish, grinning skull What deep broodings, o'er you mull?

Should he have miscalculated his distance, or chosen a place where the cleft was widestshould his footing fail, or his strength be unequal to carry him over, what a death were his!