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Sentences starting with failure

Failure was inevitable. [6]

Sentences ending with failure

Even Appelles' perennial youth is only a long tragedy, and his life a failure. [5]
You have put yourself forever beyond failure. [9]
Some thought he would succeed, others that he would be a brilliant failure. [6]
For a little while, hope made a show of reviving--not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure. [5]
He always knew what everybody thought--that he would never do anything but play cricket till he got too heavy to run, and then would sink into a slothful, fat, and useless middle and old age; that his life would be a failure. [11]
We tried all we could to fill him so full that he would have no room to spare for a fortnight, but it was a failure. [5]
The first experiment was not merely a failure, it was more than a failure. [5]
Miller's resurrection day was a failure. [5]
It was beautiful to see Joan handle the foils, but the old man was a bad failure. [5]
People are apt to conceive, or at least to profess, exaggerated expectation, such as no performance can realise; then ensue disappointment and the due revenge, detraction, and failure. [14]

Short sentences using failure

He died lamenting his failure. [5]
Or sugar a failure? [11]
It was a failure. [5]
I've been a failure. [11]
What a miserable failure! [4]
He's just a dead failure. [9]
The raid was a failure. [5]
But it was a failure. [5]
American institutions were a failure! [9]

Sentences containing failure two or more times

But she had the heart of Robert Bruce within her, and failure upon failure daunted her no more than him. [14]
But if the failure of the cablegram on that first day may be called an immense disaster, where is the dictionary that can turn out a phrase sizeable enough to describe the tenth day's failure? [5]
And if you fail, George,--any failure for a man's convictions is a grand failure. [9]
They made failure after failure, but they improved little by little all the time. [5]

More example sentences with the word failure in them

It's lucky for you that from what she let fall, I've got the clue I want, for if I hadn't, I'd have visited the failure upon you, I can tell you. [12]
More than nine years had passed since the closing of the Hartford house--eventful years that had seen failure, bereavement, battle with debt, and rehabilitated fortunes. [5]
They said nobody would come to hear me, and I would make a humiliating failure of it. [5]
With such a woman life is a failure, either tragic or pathetic, without a great passion given and returned. [4]
Contrasting its failure with its high pretensions, it is fair to call it an imposition; whether an expressly fraudulent contrivance or not, some might be ready to question. [6]
This was coincident with his failure at the ash-factory, where he mismanaged and even robbed Jean Jacques right and left; and she had firmly insisted on Jean Jacques evicting him, on the ground that it was not Sebastian Dolores' bent to manage a business. [11]
I don't know why marriage should suddenly have become such a mockery and failure in our time, but I know that it is, that ours hasn't been such an exception as I once thought. [9]
Even Mrs. Benson, who was at first a little bewildered at the failure of her admirably planned campaign, accepted the situation with serenity. [4]
And yet there were some reviews of a different sort, half a dozen in all, and half of them from Western journals, which took the book seriously, saw its pathos, its artistic merit, its failure of construction through inexperience. [4]
He succeeded pretty well, but the failure of Page, Bacon & Co. relieved him of six thousand dollars, and then, to all intents and purposes, he was a bankrupt in his old age and he resumed service in the pulpit again. [5]
At his mercy was the daily bread of every official, every trader, every clerk, every civil servant, big and little, in the whole huge India Company's machine, and the man who hazarded his bread by any failure of subserviency to the boss lost it. [5]
She said she was thankful that I had what would save me from drudgery, and that some other time I should tell her about it.--I never made a greater failure in an attempt to produce a sensation. [6]
The Irish parliament was confessedly a failure, and it is scarcely within the possibilities that the experiment will be tried again. [4]
The lean parchment visage had the hunted look of the incorrigible failure, had written on it self-indulgence, cunning, and uncertainty. [11]
Often, speaking with vexation of some failure or irregularity, he would say: "What can one do with our Russian peasants? [2]
But such failure, Venters decided, was owing to the speed with which they were traveling. [13]
I soon found, too, that he had no ideas whatever on the value of discretion, and it was only by repeated threats of absolute failure that I prevented our secret tactics from becoming the property of his sporting fraternity and of the town. [9]
Perhaps some apology to the reader is necessary in view of our failure to find Laura's father. [5]
Antinous had learnt to regard everything crippled or defective with aversion, as a monstrous failure of nature's plastic harmony, but to pity it tenderly; but now he felt quite differently. [10]
Also his failure to make any allusion to it whatever from the pulpit, until several years after the occurrence "3. [5]
His own letter to Howells, later, probably does not give the real reason of his failure, but it will be amusing to those who recall the erratic personality of George Francis Train. [5]
Wilson went back to his principal and reported the failure of his mission. [5]
Perhaps it is to his failure to do so that he owes the semi-respectful reference to himself in Carlyle's "Reminiscences. [4]
With his failure to elicit any response from Mrs. Henderson, the hope, raised by the newspaper comments on the unexecuted will, that the fund would be renewed was dissipated. [4]
Yet he intended to bind the fate of the woman he loved to his own, for Els, spite of the opposition of his family, would have been already indissolubly united to him, had not one failure after another destroyed his courage to take her hand. [10]
During the next three years he was distracted by the financial struggle which ended in April, 1894, with the failure of Charles L. Webster & Co. Mark Twain now found himself bankrupt, and nearly one hundred thousand dollars in debt. [5]
Yes, she would, this once again, try to win the heart of this man; and so reach what was deeper than heart, and so also give him that without which his life must be a failure in the end, as Sybil Eglington had said. [11]
She had thought this failure to nod stupidity, but it might after all be abstraction. [9]
I confess that this failure of the annual graduating class to make its expected impression on the world has its pathetic side. [4]
The secret of this failure always is that the conversation is not general. [4]
The Democrats, in their national convention, declared the war a failure, demanded, substantially, peace at any price, and nominated on such a platform General McClellan as their candidate. [7]
Be prepared for the worst; then you are armed against failure and preserve your right to hope! [10]
It is true, the victory of 1840 did not produce the happy results anticipated; but it is equally true, as we believe, that the unfortunate death of General Harrison was the cause of the failure. [7]
He knew that the other was ready for any wild move; there was upon him the sense of failure and disgust; he was acted on by the magic of the night, the terrible delight of the scene, and that might be turned to advantage. [11]
Will you repeat the old experiment of a material success and a moral and spiritual failure? [4]
Her presence in the house has previously brought down the pride and broken the heart of Appelles' poor old mother; and her life is a failure. [5]
He awoke to the fact that in his cock-sure schemes for the civil and military life of Egypt there was not one element of sound sense; that he had been all along an egregious failure. [11]
The failure of the Deseret News, the Church organ, and the only paper then published in the Territory, to notice the massacre until several months afterward, and then only to deny that Mormons were engaged in it. [5]
Behind them was the blank failure of a life--fifteen years of miserable torture, of degradation, of a daily descent lower into the pit, of the servitude of shame. [11]
Of course in the beginning there is a good deal of revenue from this source, but the revenue diminishes as the club improves, so that we have the anomaly of its failure to be self-supporting in proportion to its excellence. [4]
If he fails, that is a reason why he should convince his fellows that the failure was not inherent in himself, but in ill-luck or a misdirection of his powers. [4]
The French columns that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village and began firing them at Tushin's battery. [2]
But the debate that followed showed that the speech had been a failure. [11]
I did imagine that everything had been said about life at sea that could be said, but no matter, it was all a failure and lies, nothing but lies with a thin varnish of fact,--only you have stated it as it absolutely is. [5]
It was a terrible shock to us who had vainly hoped to keep him a few years longer, but at least he was spared what he had dreaded with a great dread, a gradual failure of mental or bodily power. [6]
Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities of failure in what he has undertaken. [6]
The same remedy taken while the curve is in its downward movement proves a failure. [6]
Was this a sudden resolution of mine, forced by events, precipitated by a failure to achieve what of all things on earth I had most desired? [9]
Close before the success of which I dreamed failure and bitter disappointment. [10]
When the heart stops beating, there's heart failure. [11]
After its early spectacular success less than ten years had brought the business to failure. [5]
We are not speaking of the execution of a judicial sentence, but of the success or failure of an attempt at personal revenge. [10]
They found the son weak and fainting, fallen within the porch--a worn, bearded man, returned from failure and suffering and the husks of evil. [11]
It was when she tried to find the cause of the weakness that so abruptly had overtaken her, or to cast about for a plan to fit the new predicament to which her failure had sentenced her, that the fantasies intruded. [9]
I want to share your failure, if it comes--all your failures. [9]
But the thing seems to be a complete failure as it was. [5]
I've come to see that that our failure hasn't been as much your fault as I once thought, as much as you yourself declare. [9]
Upon its several schemes the Government spent L30,000 and employed the labors and ingenuities of several thousand Whites for a long time with failure as a result. [5]
Nor could she say whether this feeling were a wholly natural failure to grasp a future too big, or the old sense of the unreality of events that had followed her so persistently. [9]
And at this same time the world is full of doubts and questionings as to whether marriage is a failure. [4]
He charged the same for explaining a failure that he did for scoring a success. [5]
Why, the humblest sailor would have more sense than to start a revolt, the success of which depends upon his personal influence, and the failure of which must end in his own ruin. [11]
At length he said to himself, "Yes, it certainly seems to account for the failure of my endeavors in poor Berkeley's case. [5]
In February Clemens returned to New York to look after matters connected with his failure and to close arrangements for a reading-tour around the world. [5]
O sweet, tranquil refuge of oblivion, so far as earth is concerned, for us poor blundering, stammering, misbehaving creatures who cannot turn over a leaf of our life's diary without feeling thankful that its failure can no longer stare us in the face! [6]
He began by referring to the hope with which he had come to St. John's, and the gradual realization that the church was a failure--a dismal failure when compared to the high ideal of her Master. [9]
He tried to prove to the Emperor the impossibility of levying fresh troops, spoke of the hardships already endured by the people, of the possibility of failure and so forth. [2]
Its title might properly be 'Is Life a Failure? [5]
And no sharper proof of the failure of the old social order to provide for human instincts and needs could be found than the conviction they gave of new and vitalizing forces released in them. [9]
Begun with youthful pride and affectionate interest, they had gone on into vexation, sorrow, failure, and shame. [11]
I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure. [7]
Tragedy and the pathos of failure have their places in literature as well as in life. [4]
Success is the only thing that'll save their lives--and ours: we couldn't stand failure in this. [11]
I tried surf-bathing once, subsequently, but made a failure of it. [5]
All the humiliation of undeserved failure to accomplish what had been the dear desire of five years bore down his spirit now. [11]
The mistake most of them had made (for subtlety in such affairs is not a masculine trait) was the failure to recognize and continue to present the quality in them which had awakened her. [9]
In the back of the rector's mind lay a weight, which he identified, at intervals, with what he was now convinced was the failure of his sermon. [9]
Disease is one of the penalties of one of the forms of such failure. [3]
And how much of the lonesomeness of life comes from the failure to do it! [4]
But the custom of planting it in the front yard with the shrubbery is fast going out of vogue, for it is now generally conceded that, the pumpkin as a shade tree is a failure. [5]
Perhaps the vexation of his failure made him call Mrs. Horn in his heart a fraud. [8]
The vulgar estimate of his contemporaries, that reckoned Old Phelps "lazy," was simply a failure to comprehend the conditions of his being. [4]
After the failure of his attempt to restore Bartja, (transformed as he fancied into a bow) to his original shape, his irritability increased so frightfully that a single word, or even a look, was sufficient to make him furious. [10]
He thought only of escape, and of escape from that quarter of the city that was the witness of his labors and his failure. [4]
I have another objection, a purely selfish one: trading upon my name, whether the enterprise scored a success or a failure would damage me. [5]
We'll be through, now, in 3 or 4 months, I reckon, and then the strain will let up and we can breathe freely once more, whether success ensues or failure. [5]
Although you were not successful, the attempt was not an error, nor the failure other than accident. [7]
But they were not going to fail; that was what Alma contended, with a hardy courage that her mother sometimes felt almost invited failure, if it did not deserve it. [8]
The matter did not end with the failure of the duel. [5]
His failure was not due to his want of faculty or to the vigor of his opponents. [6]
We are a nation divided against ourselves; democracy--Jacksonian democracy, at all events, is a flat failure, and we may as well acknowledge it. [9]
There is no mystery, no sense of partial failure about the Taj. [5]
By that, from my standpoint,' he would add, 'life is a failure as a spectacle. [11]
Do you remember my going to the city, while I was in Kentucky, to have a tooth extracted, and making a failure of it? [7]
It is so much easier to forgive a failure than a success. [4]
La Cote was much depressed, for he had scored here the worst failure of his campaign. [5]
The impulse that moved his brush was no longer the divine pleasure in creation of former days, but dread of failure, and ardent, daily increasing love for Isabella. [10]
They were sad, mistaken ambitions, doomed to failure, but they were also his very heart, which he would empty out gladly for an idea. [11]
My wife and Miss Spaulding are along, and you may imagine how they take to heart this failure of our long promised Edinburgh trip. [5]
And on receiving Miss Martineau's assurance that she did not, Miss Bronte entreated her to declare it frankly if she thought there was any failure of this description in any future work of "Currer Bell's. [14]

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