Fails

Examples

• We have an open carriage outside, and as you would no doubt like to see the place before the light fails, we might talk it over as we drive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• History fails to relate a great deal about the mechanical detail of the Pennington model, but it is said to have made a very creditable performance in exhibition. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The ordinary course of action fails to give adequate stimulus to emotion and imagination. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The artist studies the progress of his own attempts to see what succeeds and what fails. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they skirmish, as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The conception always precedes the understanding; and where the one is obscure, the other is uncertain; where the one fails, the other must fail also. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If she fails us, isn't there what you call the Gazette? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It rarely fails to break perfectly true. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• But the trooper fails to fasten the brooch. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You _talk_ if anybody dies suddenly; you _talk_ if a fire breaks out; you _talk_ if a mill-owner fails; you _talk_ if he's murdered. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The merely practical man loses much by not knowing the backgrou nd of his activities; the mere theorist fails by mistaking the shadow for the substance. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You mean that Sir James tries and fails. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Now, he resumed, when a further period had elapsed, if she fails to come, I shall hate and scorn her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• At most he learns simply to improve his existing technique; he does not get new points of view; he fails to experience any intellectual companionship. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You couldn't find the spot to which these people had repaired,' said Monks, 'but where friendship fails, hatred will often force a way. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• What is to be done with a human being that can be governed only by the lash,--_that_ fails,--it's a very common state of things down here! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Where it fails of its end, it is only an imperfect means; and therefore can never acquire any merit from that end. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If it fails with her, my power is gone. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He refuses to make any abatement, because his threat is, that if he fails with me, he will come to you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The increase of demand, besides, though in the beginning it may sometimes raise the price of goods, never fails to lower it in the long-run. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If she goes NOW, and if he fails, it will only confirm the general impression: which isn't by any means peculiar to Lefferts, by the way. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It fails most just where it thinks it is succeeding--in getting a preparation for the future. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His will is the mountain stream, which may indeed be turned for a little space aside by the rock, but fails not to find its course to the ocean. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Mother's bar'ls is like dat ar widder's, Mas'r George was reading 'bout, in de good book,--dey never fails, said Mose, aside to Peter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And if he fails, then he will use force and plunder them. Plato. The Republic.
• Still, if it fails--' 'And if it fails,' said she, advancing, and laying her hand on his arm, her eyes full of eager light. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She has such a passion for it, I often tell her if everything else fails, she can be a horsebreaker, and get her living so. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Artichoke professes his readiness so to do, endeavours to do so, but fails. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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