I rode the horse myself, but nevertheless, our sure thing, like many another sure thing, proved a total failure, and we came out of that race minus the horse and every dollar we had in the world.

Moreover, he had assisted Mr. Andrew Thornton, the district medical officer, in making a postmortem examination, and together they had come to the conclusion that death was due to the action of prussic acid, which had caused instantaneous failure of the heart, but how the drug had been administered neither he nor his colleague were at present able to state.

The slightest slip would mean failure, and merciless punishment.

In face of this improvement he thought with dismay of having to confess failure in a scheme which apart from success was inexcusable.

The daughters knew his closeness in trade, and attributed to it his failure to negotiate for the Old Charlie buildings,so to call them.

During this silence, many flattered themselves that I had turned out a failure, and that they should not be troubled with me any more.

The Boy sat down by the stove, cogitating how he should best set about finding Nicholas to explain the failure of their mission....

If it be greater, the revenue will be, indeed, less augmented; but the purposes which, in the opinion of the noble lords who oppose the bill, are more to be regarded, will be better promoted, and all their arguments against it will be, at least, defeated; nor will the ministry, I hope, regret the failure of a tax which is deficient only by the sobriety of the nation.

And if some of those who judge of measures solely by their effects still denounce this act, as one which has failed in its object of tranquillizing Ireland, many of those who admit the failure ascribe it to the omission to accompany it by one securing a state endowment for the Roman Catholic clergy, pronouncing it, without that appendage, a half measure, such as rarely succeeds, and never deserves success.

To predict certain failure to the German arms is only a kind of boasting.

However, I managed to escape, and on reporting my failure to Ramani Babu, he sent me in charge of a Barkamdúz (guard) to Paliti, which is ten coss (20 miles) away.

In a hundred domestic dramas or melodramas, we have seen the head of a happy household open a newspaper or a telegram announcing the failure of some enterprise in which all his fortune is embarked.

These may be such as enable the soul to triumph in its earthly experience and in its bodily housing; they may be such as will bring about failure and defeat.

He did not seem to feel the failure of his expedition.

What was its fate in the Dark Age that followed the failure of the Roman administration we do not know; but with the advent of St Augustine Rochester at once received a Bishop.

Fernando's anxiety and mortification increased as he witnessed the repeated failures of his gunners to hull the Xenophon.

Some feared him as one that contemplated the imposition of a new tax; others viewed him askance as a doctor from the Hospital despatched by higher authority to put an end to the ceremony; and yet others,the larger number insooth,deemed that here at last was a Saheb who had found physic a failure and had learned that the Mother alone has power to allay grievous sickness.

Or they ascribed the failure of the undertaking to the bad conduct of the crusaders themselves, to the unchristian mode of life which many of them led, as one of these friends maintained, in a consoling letter to Bernard himself, adding, "God, however, has turned it to good.

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

You will say 'yes' when he does, won't you, and have the engagement announced at once?" "I'll see how I feel at the time, if it comes," I answered, trying to speak gaily, but making a failure of it.

The Lord grants the permission, and prophesies the failure of the attempt: "Be it allowed!

There was no room for an inefficient leader in any branch of the force, and the knowledge that the Commander-in-Chief valued the lives and the health of his men so highly that he would not risk a failure, kept all the staffs tuned up to concert pitch.

It is not for me to give an opinion upon the correctness of his estimates: but the past history of Trinidad shows so many failures of the cacao crop, that even a practically ignorant man may be excused for guessing that there is something wrong in the old Spanish system; and that with cacao, as with wheat and every other known crop, improved culture means improved produce and steadier profits.

Lucius considered the failure of his hopes, that in nothing was he conqueror.

All that another mind could do for us by way of teaching Art would be to save us time,first, by its experience, in anticipating our failures; second, by its trained accuracy, to correct our errors of expression more promptly than our afterthought would do it,and to systematize our perceptions for us by showing us the relative and comparative importance of truths in Nature.