10 Verbs to Use for the Word fails

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

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

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!

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.

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!

That never shouldst thou fail in love, or into coldness fall, Toward thy little Moorish maiden, who has given thee her all.

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.

Háfiz, let not Thy courage fail! Fortune, thy charmer Shall unveil.

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; *

10 Verbs to Use for the Word  fails