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Sentences ending with failed

For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its fertility failed. [5]
She said I would live until those wars were forgotten--a prophecy which failed. [5]
Tom had struggled with his pride a few days, and tried to "whistle her down the wind," but failed. [5]
All his hopes were wrecked, for this meant that Omar still ruled and that the attempt on the Khaliff's life had failed. [10]
It is the way of the Alps to deliver death to their victims with a merciful swiftness, but here the rule failed. [5]
I turned and twisted my question around and about, trying to strike that man's average, but failed. [5]
It has been tried again and again, and failed. [9]
It was better to walk than to sit alone in torment, to be gnawed by that Thing from which she had so desperately attempted to escape, and failed. [9]
Twice he tried to speak his name, and twice he failed. [9]
You may have to go to walking again, but don't begin till I tell you my scheme has failed. [5]

Short sentences using failed

Harvard College failed up? [9]
I failed in that mission. [9]
The evasion failed, of course. [5]
They tried the law--and failed. [5]
He failed in his enterprise. [5]
Further speech failed him. [9]
But she failed him again. [5]
Her courage failed her. [9]
But had it failed? [8]
Have we yet failed? [11]

Sentences containing failed two or more times

I have tried to repeat this lad's very words; if I have failed anywhere I have at least not failed to reproduce the marrow and meaning of what he said. [5]
Pierre had failed to notice Natasha because he did not at all expect to see her there, but he had failed to recognize her because the change in her since he last saw her was immense. [2]
Yet he had failed himself, and all others had failed in winning her--why should this man succeed, if that was his purpose? [11]
And if he failed "she smiled acidly--"he would get him home to Kenilworth and show himself no more--if he failed, and the White Knight failed not! [11]
He failed that day, and tried again at night; failed again; got up at dawn and tried, and failed again. [5]

More example sentences with the word failed in them

I understand all you would say to me; but he who has most at stake has said it, and, if he failed, do you think, madame, that you could succeed? [11]
She had never yet failed to appear, and her absence would excite remark. [10]
What pain it would cause her, and how heavily it would burden his master's soul that he had failed to intercede for him! [10]
As expert a woodman as I am, I had somehow failed to notice this until my attention was called to it by a hog. [5]
Not one Egyptian woman would have failed to appear if the plague had not kept so many imprisoned in their houses. [10]
The Speaker rapped with his gavel, and I failed to hear the opening words. [9]
He met me with an expression I failed to fathom, and then my eye was held by a letter in his hand. [9]
Then he continued, with a groan: "In front of the house of your neighbor Milon--the back of my head--I fled--a lance--" His voice failed him, and Berenike cried to the tribune: "Support him, Nemesianus! [10]
I hope Congress will extend to them the charity which they have failed to get from me. [5]
She wondered, indeed, why he now failed to appeal to Miss Duncan, and she began to doubt the sincerity of that young lady's statements. [9]
No Egyptian from whom death had snatched a loved one failed to follow the swelling torrent, which increased till hundreds became thousands. [10]
He had a wholesome respect, not to say fear, of her; for when all else had failed, it was she who had arranged his escape from Spain, and who almost saved Carvillho Gonzales from being shot. [11]
Many a general who has fought a desperate and victorious fight after a long campaign, and amid all the anxieties and miseries of war, has failed to follow up his advantage, from a sudden lesion of the power for action in him. [11]
Then; for a while, he had gained a meagre living by sewing up bursted sacks of grain on the piers; when that failed he had found food here and there as chance threw it in his way. [5]
So the wave which was to have wafted them on to the shore of Elysium has just failed of landing them, and back they have been drawn into the desolate ocean to meet no more on earth. [6]
My father failed when he came to Coniston--he was not meant for business, and Uncle Jethro took care of him all his life, and paid his debts. [9]
Why, my trying what you go to do is like--is like--" Cluny's similes failed to come. [11]
When she confessed what withheld her from doing so, he at first tried to convince her by opposing reasons, but usually strength to continue the interchange of thought soon failed him. [10]
It was wicked, what she was doing, but she gloried in it; and even the sight, in burning red letters, of Gruber's Cafe failed to bring on a revulsion by its association with her sister Lise. [9]
Sprites that they were, they had failed him until to-day, when he was to see her again! [9]
The young men were received at the house of the Montagues with the hospitality which never failed there. [5]
And so we were most happily disappointed to find in the sequel that the guide had even failed to rise to the magnitude of his subject. [5]
If these ladies were hogs to everybody and to themselves, it would be necessary to break the enchantment, and that might be impossible if one failed to find out the particular process of the enchantment. [5]
I think pilots were about the only people I ever knew who failed to show, in some degree, embarrassment in the presence of traveling foreign princes. [5]
The farther he went, the more cloudy became the sky,--which here so rarely failed to show a sunny vault of blue at noonday,--the more fiercely howled the tempest. [10]
But as we went back to the camp again he told me how the French had tried once to conquer this vast country and failed, leaving to the Spaniards the endless stretch beyond the Mississippi called Louisiana, and this part to the English. [9]
They were very well done, but he hated doing them after the first two or three, and had to be punched up for them by Fulkerson, who did not cease to prize them, and who never failed to punch him up. [8]
Before a fatal weakness suddenly attacked him his health had been rather better than before; then his voice failed, and Quijada was compelled to kneel beside his bed that he might understand what he wished to impress upon him. [10]
She stopped up,--it was very tempting,--late and later, striving to beguile the lonely night with some employment, till her weak eyes failed to read or to sew, and could only weep in solitude over the dead that were not. [14]
Now that she was there, beside him, her strength failed her, and her courage--courage that she had been storing for this dread undertaking throughout the whole of that dreadful day. [9]
But, as I was saying, when the sheet-bath failed to cure my cough, a lady friend recommended the application of a mustard plaster to my breast. [5]
Or rather, that was one of the reason why it failed, but there was another and better one. [5]
Naturally Mark Twain was one of its favorite members, and his contributions never failed to arouse interest and discussion. [5]
Colonel Woodburn, who was not yet in the secret of their love, perhaps failed for this reason to share their satisfaction with a result so unexpectedly brought about. [8]
One last rush was made, and failed, and then the Staats Artillery came up on the left flank, and the game was up. [5]
His opening address was in a tongue that failed to convey to me the least idea. [4]
The ten-year arrangement was due a year ago, but failed to connect. [5]
The first man was a hypocrite and a coward, qualities which have not yet failed in his line; it is the foundation upon which all civilizations have been built. [5]
Wait a bit, wait!--With a definite aim before my eyes I have never yet failed to find my way--in the realm of science, of course; but what is life--the life of the sage but applied knowledge? [10]
Medallion's cheerful nervous vitality seldom failed to inspire whom he chose to inspire with Something of his own life and cheerfulness. [11]
Some species stridulate very loudly, so that when Mr. F. Smith caught a Trox sabulosus, a gamekeeper, who stood by, thought he had caught a mouse; but I failed to discover the proper organs in this beetle. [1]
It would be very difficult to find a really clever "situation" in Cooper's books, and still more difficult to find one of any kind which he has failed to render absurd by his handling of it. [5]
Such undertakings had uniformly failed, but he had always been willing to try again. [5]
This time he tried, and failed miserably. [9]
His keen eyes, too, failed, for the objects he tried to see blended with the dust of the road, the horizon reeled up and down before his eyes, and he felt as though the hard pavement had turned to a yielding bog under his feet. [10]
Still, in justice to the street it must be said that it charitably waits for things to be proven, and that if Henderson had failed, he might have had little more lenient judgment in the street than elsewhere. [4]
Then she flew to tell the company her success, and the applause she received made her glad and proud she had undertaken her mission, since all alone she had accomplished what the multitude had failed in. [5]
I never failed to take such noates by wrighting out of his doctrine as my capacity could comprehend, unless some raynie day hindred my endeavor. [4]
So I tried to stop you, Buck--" Life was going fast, and speech failed him; but he opened his eyes again and whispered, "I didn't want to die, Buck. [11]
This one failed to stand the test, and I went away from it disappointed. [5]
Dicky never failed to show illusive interest, and both knew that they were not deceiving the other, and both came nearer to the issue by devious processes, as though these processes were inevitable. [11]
This is not to say that he failed at his examinations--on the contrary, he always succeeded; but he only did enough to pass and no more; and he did not wish to do more than pass. [11]
Tookaram afterwards tried to remove the silver amulets, the ear-studs, and the nose-ring; but he failed in his attempt. [5]
I utterly failed to recognize "Alonzo" in this new atmosphere. [9]
That despatch failed to reach Mr. Corwin, by reason of the disturbed condition of Mexico, until a very recent date, Mr. Corwin being without instructions, or thus practically left without instructions, to negotiate further with Mexico. [7]
Had Philippus failed to observe it, or had he held his peace out of respect for the secrets of another?--Poor man, poor young man! [10]
He even failed to notice that the man who talks corrupt English six days in the week must and will talk it on the seventh, and can't help himself. [5]
It was plain to me that La Cote Male Taile had failed to see the mistress of the house. [5]
It does seem to me that in the field the two classes have been very much alike in what they have done and what they have failed to do. [7]
So he failed to make his point, and reddened a little, and was not in the best humor, I thought, when he left the table. [6]
If she failed to inspire, the Church would wither and perish. [9]
These qualities, added to her peculiar style of beauty, which excited his admiration from its rare novelty, half Egyptian half Greek, (her mother having been a Greek), had not failed to make a deep impression on him. [10]
It never failed to give at least temporary relief, but nothing enabled me to sleep in my state-room, though I had it all to myself, the upper berth being removed. [6]
The army failed to find the Prussians, but made good their return to the Vaterland without bloodshed, after having invaded as much as they wanted to. [5]
But she failed to find the object of her pilgrimage. [10]
The military failed to find the French, but made good their return to Prussia without the loss of a single man. [5]
He evidently tried to find something to say, but failed. [2]
He sallied out to find Joe Harper, but failed of success. [5]
Stanton naturally failed to find it, and it remained for the writer of these notes, motoring up the Rhone one September day, exactly twenty-two years after the first discovery, to re-locate the vast reclining figure of the first consul of France, "dreaming of Universal Empire. [5]
She was wont to entertain Ephraim on the days when his hands failed him, when he sat sunning himself before his door; and she knew that he was honest. [9]
We had failed to elicit from European governments anything hopeful upon this subject. [7]
This never failed to draw a substantial "bill" from the wad which Jean Jacques always carried in his pocket-loose, not tied up in a leather roll, as so many lesser men freighted the burdens of their wealth. [11]
Susan Merrill tried to do that, and failed signally, for Miss Sally's nose was not easily dislodged. [9]
But he failed to do so and felt awkward about entering on such an explanation. [2]
He only failed to do justice to the poor beganne, Dormy Jamais. [11]
But I failed to cure my cold. [5]
When Benoit failed to come in the spring, they showed their pity for her by abusing him; and when she pleaded for him they said things which had an edge. [11]
He tried not to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. [2]
They probably failed to catch the guard, tumbled back, and were struck by the wheel and killed. [5]
Titianus had failed to be present at the emperor's arrival, and keen courtier noses smelled a fall, and judged it wise to keep out of the way of a tottering power. [10]
When Beaton came to ask himself this question, he could only perceive that he and Dryfoos had failed to find any ground of sympathy, and had parted in the same dislike with which they had met. [8]
The Germans failed to arrive at the secret of tanning the skins successfully, and they withdrew from the business. [5]
Since he failed to appear after lunch, she knew he must be investigating the suspicions Orcutt had voiced; but at six o'clock, when he had not returned, she closed up her desk and left the office. [9]
Had she attempted to advance to meet him, her limbs would have failed to support her. [10]
What they failed to acknowledge was his point of view--and this he was wise enough not to press at dinner tables and in drawing-rooms--that religion should have the penetrability of ether; that it should be the absorbent of life. [9]
I failed several times, as I could see out of the corner of my eye without being told; but at last I knew I must be looking straight at the thing--knew it from the pleasure issuing in invisible waves from him. [5]
Only a short time before he had learned that his two messengers had been captured and failed to reach their destination. [10]
If I failed, thou wouldst not succeed. [11]
He could make those dialect-speaking raftsmen understand him, sometimes, when even young Z had failed with them; and young Z was a pretty good German scholar. [5]
When, in saying this, her hoarse voice failed and tears of pain and sorrow filled her eyes, emotion overpowered him also and, after he had again urged her to submit to the will of their imperial master, he tore himself away with a last farewell. [10]
By help of this text I will do the best I can to publicly answer this correspondent, and also the others--at the same time apologising for having failed to reply privately. [5]
And here, in this desecrated resting-place of the village dead, where the shattered gravestones were mingled with barbed wire, death-dealing fragments of iron, and rusting stick-bombs that had failed to explode, was a wooden cross, on which was rudely written the name of Hans Siebert. [9]
A band of thirty pieces furnished the music, and in the opinion of the jackies one feature alone was lacking to make the entertainment a complete success--the new drop-curtain had failed to arrive from London. [9]
He tried to think, but failed. [9]
But now, this thing had actually and unquestionably failed. [5]
If they failed, they were to be called knaves and fools, and fanatics for a fleeting hour; then to sink and be forgotten. [7]
Of the father they stood in awe; his conscientious piety failed to waken any religious sensibility in them, and they revolted from a teaching which seemed to regard everything that was pleasant as wicked. [4]
If we failed there, there was no hope for us. [5]
She had experienced them before, and always had failed to account for their intrusion into a hatred she cherished. [9]
He toiled with the utmost zeal, but during their nocturnal walk also he failed to convince his opponent. [10]

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