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Sentences starting with failing

Failing to see this, he is isolated, and, wanting his sympathy, the untutored world mocks at his super-fineness and takes its own rough way to rougher ends. [4]
Failing that, they think they will be in a better position to be picked up. [5]
Failing health persuades me to sell. [5]
Failing to obtain employment by the Virginia company, Smith turned his attention to New England, but neither did the Plymouth company avail themselves of his service. [4]
Failing to get employment anywhere, he petitioned the Virginia Company for a reward out of the treasury in London or the profits in Virginia. [4]

Sentences ending with failing

True, they allowed themselves only brief intervals of rest, but they were long enough to show her how the sufferer's strength was failing. [10]
I didn't know that was your failing. [9]
There was no repressing it, and the authorities felt daily more and more that their old measures of restraint were failing. [10]
I have very rarely, however, found such a coincidence in ideas or expression as would be enough to justify an accusation of unconscious plagiarism,--conscious plagiarism is not my particular failing. [6]
I had no pain,--only an over whelming exhaustion,--but the joy of her touch and her presence kept me from failing. [9]
And--Heaven help me--my own were fast failing. [9]
He was aware of trying to speak sternly, and of failing. [9]
They both attacked Mr. Bolton behind his back as a swindler, and circulated the story that he had made a fortune by failing. [5]
Since in business matters he never had taken her into his confidence, and since she would not at any rate have understood such things, she had no proof of such a failing. [9]
At one time in our domestic history we had a colored butler who had a failing. [5]

More example sentences with the word failing in them

Many a strong-limbed young man and many a blooming young woman have I seen failing and dropping away in or before middle life, and many a delicate and slightly constituted person outliving the athletes and the beauties of their generation. [6]
With love to you both, Ever yours, S. L. C. In the foregoing letter we get the first intimation of Mark Twain's failing health. [5]
Now, for some years it has been inadequate, frequently unintelligible, often grossly misleading, failing wholly to give the real spirit and meaning of the most important discussions; and it is as dry as chips besides. [4]
It was not without its natural influence upon him; but he regarded it most as a comfortable advertisement, and he lamented every day that this never- failing gas well was not near a large population, and he still its owner. [11]
He was satisfied with the day's success--a success exceeding his expectations, but the old man's strength was failing him. [2]
Lord Delaware remained with the colony less than a year; his health failing, he went in pursuit of it, in March, 1611, to the West Indies. [4]
Whatever failing there was on his critical side was due to this somewhat uncritical attitude; for it is from his particular friends that the writer is apt to get the most dispassionate consideration and sometimes the coldest commendation. [4]
We were failing under the accumulated fatigue of days and days of ceaseless marching. [5]
She learned all unconsciously (by suggestion, as it were) to take delight in them; a delight that was to last her lifetime, a never failing resource to which she was to turn again and again. [9]
Eda, though failing to apply this poetic parallel, when alone in her little room in the Welsh boarding-house often indulged in an ecstasy of speculation as to that man, hidden in the mists of the future, whose destiny it would be to awaken her friend. [9]
The invention of this plan overstrained the author that is plain, for he straightway shows failing powers. [5]
Two days after this letter was written we get a hint of what was the beginning of business trouble--that is to say, of the failing health of Charles L. Webster. [5]
In February, 1832, the wife of his youth, who had been for some time in failing health, died of consumption. [6]
By the callings, the swimmer was approaching, but some said the sound showed failing strength. [5]
The manager of the menagerie had tried for her affections, had offered a price for her friendship; and failing, had become as good a friend as such a man could be. [11]
The whole of the laws which were required to be faithfully executed were being resisted and failing of execution in nearly one third of the States. [7]
Chester halted in the doorway, his face brick-red, words utterly failing him, while Joe sat horror-stricken, holding aloft on his fork a smoking potato. [9]
Below us, round the curving bay, lies white Chillon; and at sunset we row down to it over the bewitched water, and wait under its grim walls till the failing light brings back the romance of castle and prisoner. [4]
I have told the bishop so, but he is failing so rapidly from old age that I might as well not have wasted my breath. [9]
She always said that she liked simplicity--a common failing among people who are not compelled to observe it. [4]
Certain it was that he was failing fast. [9]
A failing, he supposed, but not the worst of failings. [6]
The great procession stopped near a little house by the Aqueduct of the Failing Fountain, and spread round it, and the leader stepped forward to the door of the little house and entered. [11]
This stout column, stiff as a flagstaff, with its feathery head of mist gleaming like silver in the failing light, had the most charming effect. [4]
His top was spinning hard, but already the force of the gyration was failing, and he must presently make his exit with what the Prime Minister called his Patent, or turn the key in the lock and enter upon his kingdom. [11]
For this--for this sinking sense, this failing body, this wear and tear of mind and heart, this constant study to be possible where she had once been declared by the world to be impossible. [11]
He tried to say something, but failing, departed heavily for the mill. [9]
For a despotic ruler is like a fiery steed; the latter endeavors to kick him who touches his wounds with intent to heal; the former punishes him who lays a hand on the weak or failing points of his diseased mind. [10]
The fiery liquor revived his failing strength, brought the color to his cheeks, and lent a strange lustre to his eyes. [10]
This step was rendered necessary by Mr. Bronte's great age, and failing sight, which made it a paramount obligation on so dutiful a daughter as Charlotte, to devote as much time and assistance as ever in attending to his wants. [14]
Deeply moved, she put it on her finger; but Andreas pointed to the motto, and said with failing utterance: "That is your road--and mine--my father's motto: Per aspera ad astra. [10]
Quiet night and pretty comfortable day, though our sail and block show signs of failing, and need taking down--which latter is something of a job, as it requires the climbing of the mast. [5]
After the usual preliminaries, the divinity-student said; in a kind way, that he was sorry to find him in failing health, that he felt concerned for his soul, and was anxious to assist him in making preparations for the great change awaiting him. [6]
To talk against pie and still eat it is snobbish, of course; but snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. [4]
And which of our old folks, knowing all this, thought, as the spring subsided, of their own failing strength, and lessening life? [12]
The prevalent failing of this profession has been, on the contrary, to lend a too credulous ear to ambitious and plausible innovators. [3]
Everyone spoke loudly of the field marshal's great weakness and failing health. [2]
Mine end is now at hand: so say these warnings, and my failing pulses do confirm it. [5]
If there are not there, we have only the chance, for a few days, of a stray ship, for we cannot eke out the provisions more than five or six days longer, and our strength is failing very fast. [5]
But for the nervous force in him, the latent vitality which renewed with stubborn persistence the failing forces, he was dead. [11]
I knew from my father, whose father built a new portion of the Palace, of a secret way by the Aqueduct of the Failing Fountain, even into the Palace itself. [11]
Sudden at the moment of its occurrence, we had long been more or less prepared for it by his failing health. [6]
Gering tried by many means to draw Iberville's attack, and, failing to do so, played more rapidly than he ought, which was what Iberville wished. [11]
We took many little fragments of stone from here, because it is well known in all the East that a barren woman hath need only to touch her lips to one of these and her failing will depart from her. [5]
I feel now like a man who has redeemed a failing reputation and shed luster upon a dimmed escutcheon, by a single just deed done at the eleventh hour. [5]
Obeying us, thy lady shall keep thine estates untouched; failing obedience, thou wilt make more than thy prince unhappy. [11]
The death-bed was just the same,--breath failing, etc. [14]
The purport of it is that we lost the late elections and the administration is failing because the war is unsuccessful, and that I must not flatter myself that I am not justly to blame for it. [7]
Peter was an invalid, and the whole weight of the perplexing affairs of the failing firm fell upon the one who detested business, and counted every hour lost that he gave to it. [4]
There is something in failing health--ill-health without disease--which sharpens and refines the faculties, and makes the temper exquisitely sensitive--that is, with people of a certain good sort. [11]
Through those generations, however, there was a gradual disuse of this power, following upon a failing recognition of its possession. [5]
The condition of his health, though at that time not very obviously failing, a good deal arrested my attention, as I thought I could perceive in the occurrence of the haemoptysis, and in the cardiac hypertrophy, the early beginnings of vascular degeneration. [6]
And words failing him, he sought by a gesture to disclaim such a sinister motive for inaction. [9]
But now he had other and nearer things to occupy him, for in the fierce struggle towards the shore Lacey found himself failing, and falling down the stream. [11]
For years he had done no good for himself, trying his hand at many things--sugar, salt, cotton, cattle, but always just failing to succeed, though he came out of his enterprises owing no one. [11]
The Little Chemist had decided that the change in him was due to bad circulation and failing powers: which was only partially true. [11]
She did not go out into society; everyone knew that her father would not let her go anywhere without him, and his failing health prevented his going out himself, so that she was not invited to dinners and evening parties. [2]
With his gray glance cold on the Mormons, with the restive bit-champing of the horses, with Jane failing to repress her mounting agitations, with Venters standing pale and still, the tension of the moment tightened. [13]
I was absent from home at the last, but heard by daily postal-card of his failing condition; and never again saw him alive. [4]
The cattle moved forward with drooping heads and dragging feet or rolled on the ground till the shepherds' lash compelled them to summon their failing powers. [10]
The Maxims were fired until they grew too hot, and, water failing for the cool jacket, five of them jammed and went out of action. [5]
He has been failing very fast since you saw him yesterday, and now--" They had been walking softly and talking softly down the aisle between the long rows of beds. [8]
The one never failing test of a son, my dears, lies in his treatment of his mother, and from that hour forth I had not a doubt of John Paul. [9]
The one prevalent failing of the medical art is to neglect the causes and quarrel with the effect. [3]
He, and the failing light and dying fire, the time-worn room, the solitude, the wasted life, and gloom, were all in fellowship. [12]
Above the prying eyes of men, above the world itself, he held her, striving to realize some little of the vast joy of this possession, and failing. [9]
Is it the dying glow of my failing fortunes, is it the pale dawn of a coming and more glorious day? [10]
Some faint, premonitory divination of what they represented of immutable love in a changing, heedless, selfish world came to her; rocks to which one might cling, successful or failing, happy or unhappy. [9]
On the last day of 1874, the beloved wife, whose health had for some years been failing, was taken from him by death. [6]
As for those courtesies which the old need, to soften the sense of declining faculties and failing attractions, the younger pastor bestowed them in public, but was negligent of them, to say the least, when not on exhibition. [6]
Dietel obeyed the command without delay--nay, when he heard the famous leech whisper to the other gentlemen that the sufferer's life was but a failing lamp, his feelings were completely transformed. [10]
Aunt Hannah brought comforting news to the failing mother, and a happy note, which said again, "We have but a little time to wait, darling mother, then we shall be together. [5]
Her plan was characteristically businesslike, and her statement of it as characteristically simple and straightforward: "I would have taken English prisoners enough in France for his ransom; and failing that, I would have invaded England and brought him out by force. [5]
I shall pass by every wicked means that you took first to ruin me, to divert me to a dishonest love (though I knew not what you meant at the time), and, failing, to make me your wife. [11]
The pallid or burning cheek tells of the failing or leaping fountain which gives it color. [6]
His memory had been failing for some time, and his mind as you know was clouded, but the old charm of his voice and manner had never left him. [6]
Branwell's constitution had been failing fast all the summer; but still, neither the doctors nor himself thought him so near his end as he was. [14]
Licentiousness may also be added to the foregoing checks; but this does not follow from failing means of subsistence; though there is reason to believe that in some cases (as in Japan) it has been intentionally encouraged as a means of keeping down the population. [1]
Mr. Flint looked at his counsel once more, and wondered whether he could be mentally failing. [9]
The Frenchman was as ready as ourselves for a brush, and tried to get the weather of us, but, failing, she shortened sail and gallantly waited for us. [11]
These natural and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? [7]
It was the anniversary of my poor brother's death, and of my sister's failing health: I need say no more. [14]
I glanced around, and my failing confidence revived. [5]
We tried it, and made a success of it, though the king slipped, at the junction, and came near failing to connect. [5]
With failing strength and heightening resolution, there had sprung up a purified and altered mind; there had grown in her bosom blessed thoughts and hopes, which are the portion of few but the weak and drooping. [12]
So busy were all the others that they did not see how her strength was failing. [11]
And all harmonious, all in perfect taste; never a discordant note; never a color on any person swearing at another color on him or failing to harmonize faultlessly with the colors of any group the wearer might join. [5]
Perfectly secure now, against failing to accomplish any detail of the pilgrimage, they felt like drawing in advance upon the holiday soon to be placed to their credit. [5]
He had many a time heard of this thing succeeding but never of its failing before. [5]
At least one (and I think more) of those who are now trying to have him retained was himself an applicant for this very office, and, failing to get my recommendation, now takes this turn. [7]

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