“I don’t want to see him fail out of summer school because he’s avoiding me. He’ll get left behind if he’s absent three times.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Today we have done an hour’s saluting drill because Tjaden failed to salute a major smartly enough. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can't fail now, not with Sunny pushing for it, not with Baba taking it in both of his hands. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But Thicknesse is only one man. Scrimgeour must be surrounded by our people before I act. One failed attempt on the Minister’s life will set me back a long way.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“We lost two sons. Raja died by an accident. The child was too tender for this world; he could not live as we did. After the crops failed he—”I stopped again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all else failed, she took them into her own house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others disintegrated on their own as the residual power of Diocletian’s sceptre finally failed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed listening to Nately, whose maudlin, bittersweet lamentations mirrored much of his own romantic desolation and never failed to evoke in him resurgent tides of longing for his wife and children. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’m frequently in need of consolation, I often feel weak, and more often than not, I fail to meet expectations. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Because of this he failed to notice an enormous crystal chandelier. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to say, “I’m going to fail the hardest subject anyhow, so what’s the point?” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had removed a few small pieces of wire and silk that had failed to dissolve after my operation the previous February. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He envies her students suddenly, seeing her without fail, three times a week, pictures them gathered together around a table, staring at her continuously as she writes on the board. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to blow a smoke ring but failed. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he failed to find work, Shin did not panic or get discouraged. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As Xan’s health began to fail more rapidly, Luna informed her mother and her hosts that she would be sleeping in the Tower. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“We propose to celebrate what we have done the last hundred years,” he said, “not what we have failed to do.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But he overlooked one thing: he failed to see that this struggle to triumph over my difficulties was more important to me than anything else. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And he had; while Skeeter was streaking down a road with his master astride him, his heart failed, and he stumbled and was dead. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thornfield! that, doubtless, was the name of her house: a neat orderly spot, I was sure; though I failed in my efforts to conceive a correct plan of the premises. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But it is no use, we listen for every explosion that comes close, miscount the tricks, and fail to follow suit. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

First they hated the infantrymen on the mainland because they had failed to capture Bologna. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

His scheme for setting up a housing cooperative had failed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But why does she want us to fail? Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

If we fail to appreciate the differences, we will be hindered in our ability to meet the challenges created by the current moment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear that?” he asked, as Thyon had failed to laugh. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The try for two points fails but they are back in the lead, 13-12. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, sir. But it took them two months to build Iris, and it was so rushed it failed." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a huff, Emily ripped the page from her notebook, crumpled it, and dropped it with the other failed attempts littering the cab of the moving van. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Doubtless Mr Coldfield failed to come to breakfast in the black coat, and more days passed and still he did not, and that was all. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inept or disreputable companies have on more than one occasion failed to deliver crucial logistical support—oxygen, for instance—as promised. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they’d grown so used to hearing the tall tales of their own adventures that they truly believed they would survive when all others had failed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And why should we go hunting for a substitute for youthful desires, when youthful desires never fail? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s in our garage working on his car with Uncle Basil—who’s been living with us on and off since his almond farm up in Modesto failed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And I knew then that I had failed. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon we would often be visited by one or more of the failed Beat poets who always, very coincidentally, seemed to find themselves in the neighborhood. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The KGB's symbolic end arrived on August 22, 1991, not long after the failed coup. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His approach had been to offer me a drink, and when that had failed he had threatened; he had tried flattery, and when that had failed he had hinted at expulsion. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, very little is known about the fate of former welfare recipients because the 1996 welfare reform legislation blithely failed to include any provision for monitoring their postwelfare economic condition. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rock-passing accompaniment reflects the idea of a tight-knit community and cooperation, for if even one child fails to pass their rock on the beat to the next child, the entire song cannot continue. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And this trick, which she had, unconsciously, picked up from her father, rarely failed to work. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the late summer of 1982, four youths and two men were on a canoeing holiday in Banff National Park when they failed to return to their base camp at the end of the day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When encouraging Johnny to try training for a marathon, or when I failed to win the reading prize in seventh grade. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I thought all the adults were purged when their reprogramming failed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He — he just failed,” whispered Hermione, as Ron came slouching into the room looking most morose. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In her career as a Marine wife she had failed in her efforts to train her husband to call when he would be working late or not returning home at all. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the tortoise theory fails to be a good scientific theory because it predicts that people should be able to fall off the edge of the world. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The operation had failed to achieve its most important goal, which was to show that radioactive fallout from weapons tests could be confined to the test site. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was her day in charge of dinner and she had failed to think ahead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The system failed, failed all the way through the complication of mechanics and computers, burning each one down like the pop and sizzle of a string of Christmas lights, shuddered to ruin one by one. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Battles had been fought nearby, and the wind reminded the boy that there was the language of omens, always ready to show him what his eyes had failed to observe. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can you fail a test you aren’t allowed to prepare for? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The blind man thought that he had disguised his trap, but he did not see that he had failed to do so and any bird could tell that there was a trap there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I shift the words around, trying to form a sentence that makes sense, and when that fails, I move the letters around to see if each one might be an anagram for something else. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“He failed the first time, Apparated five miles south of where he meant to, right on top of some poor old dear doing her shopping, remember?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

On arriving at the depot, my nerve failed me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘No, Fairy Wogdog, do not leave me! I trust you! I will go at once! Only guard the house and do not fail me!’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orange groves, failed movie stars, lamplit cocktail hours by the swimming pool, cigarettes, ennui. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But with his reputation in shambles, he failed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Only two weeks into school and I’ve already failed two math quizzes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

More banks failed, layoffs increased, industrial production sagged, and strikes grew more violent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need to do anything except make sure I didn’t fail a class and get “rescinded” from Executive Pre-Professional, so I started hanging out with Aaron every day. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He has done all these things, which our Christian church has spectacularly failed to do. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s just been a day. Almost failed a quiz, and I’m pretty sure I’m going to fail tomorrow. I just need support from you.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We excluded people who failed to understand the instructions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

An extraterrestrial civilization monitoring the radio emission from Earth and receiving such signals could not fail to conclude that something interesting had been happening here lately. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For each day that I fail to find cheaper quarters, which is every day now, I am spending $49.95 for the privilege of putting clothes away at Wal-Mart. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re frightened and tired as it is, you know. What we need is to find a safe place soon, and I’d rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we can’t.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them said anything, but many of them were hoping, perhaps, that the other expeditions had failed and that this, the Fourth, would be the one. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of his training, however, he couldn’t fail to take note of Bobby’s mental condition. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The communities and schools from which they come fail to prepare them for the workforce, and once they have been labeled criminals, their job prospects are forever bleak. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One failed attempt, and he would give away his position.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“When you run the Voigt-Kampff scale up there, if one of the humans fails to pass it—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The reality that I could fail and be sent home sends a shiver down my back. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

That means I failed your mother, which just isn’t true. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

From my parents’ awful plan to give up Sir Fig Newton for adoption, to my epic fail with the lemonade stand. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Since neither pigs nor chickens can be harnessed to pull carts, highlanders remained without sources of power other than human muscle power, and also failed to evolve epidemic diseases to repel the eventual European invaders. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I just found out that I failed the English test. I didn’t actually fail it at that time.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their immune systems had failed or gone haywire. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How could you have failed this reading test? I’ve heard you use every word with my own ears.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was only saving face with the family, she knew, but she felt she had somehow failed in his eyes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But still, in that moment, I saw us through her eyes: A failed experiment. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I had failed to notice that the old bull was moving down the slope until I heard stones grating against each other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most often what I failed to do was accurately anticipate his next moves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone would be expecting them to follow up yesterday’s failed ascension with a success, which of course they couldn’t do, at least not yet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

No scary movie, failed experiment, or broken cell phone came close to the fear now pumping my heart at a hundred thousand beats per minute. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His low whistle betrays disappointment at what he finds—or fails to find—between the boy’s ears. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

On the day the public experiment was to be carried out Galileo’s rival failed to show up. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“And do you know that it’s the law to have those things? And do you know that you may fail as a result? Do you know?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Benji wondered if she would actually be happy to see them fail, like a truly evil villain. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was afraid of her brother, of what he might do if she failed him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If the children failed to meet expectations, what then? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He turned to Lanre and this time his sight did not fail him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Weeks earlier, before the inauguration, the conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh baldly announced, “I hope Obama fails.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“For fifty minutes a day, five days a week, you abide by my rules. Or you fail. The choice is yours. Both of you leave.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said out loud to no one, “you saved Sal’s life, but you failed miserably with goal number two.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If we fail to meet this challenge, all other nations will be on notice that despite its overwhelming power the United States, when a real crisis comes, will be found wanting.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“These clerks do put on airs,” Mrs. Bedlow whispered, but if she was trying to make Lyddie feel more at ease, she failed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She would not bear the disgrace if she were to fail. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For God did not forget, no word proceeding from his mouth could fail. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Massachusetts tried and, fortunately, failed to mandate that cars be equipped with bells that would ring with each revolution of the wheels. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When appointed to a council committee to look into the proposal during the summer, one councilman refused, angrily protesting, “The council knows the need for a human relations commission, and it has failed to act...” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still the gauges failed to indicate a reaction. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never failed an exam in my life. But they weren’t testing actual knowledge, they were testing our ability to answer tricky multiple-choice questions that have nothing to do with real medical knowledge.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Tell her everything, child. Let her see how thoroughly she has failed. Just like her fool brother.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You must keep up courage & never let it fail.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The assassin tried not to preen—and failed miserably. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The swineherd there says that the needy and the stranger are from Zeus and he who fails to help them sins against Zeus himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The way I see it, we didn’t fail Papá, he failed us. He’s the adult here.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But when he spoke it was in the harsh rhythms of coaches who had once been athletes who had failed in the same arenas they now presided over as adults. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abbott scored on a layup when Ben failed to get back on defense. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She shall have the place of the mother I lost that last night in Troy. I swear it to you. And take this with you, my own sword. It will not fail you.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since my failed phone call, I’d been thinking hard about how to reach him. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Except long-distance relationships are doomed to fail, especially when you’re in elementary school. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A history of modern science without progress fails to capture science’s unique feature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No luck: the fair wind failed us when our prudence failed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first level, the campaign clearly failed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it feels good to put myself to some use, to think of a new problem to solve now that I have failed to solve the most important one. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But no matter how late it was, his friend never failed to greet him when he arrived under the bridge. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I thought the same thing. I failed to appreciate that imagining and seeing are two very different things.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They would form a ring around him, holding each other by the hand, trying to suffuse him with their healing fluids, but that too failed to endow Nicolas with mental powers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it given to Donne in turn, or did he borrow it and fail to return it? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But if you yell that you’re a spy, that means you don’t get to be a spy anymore, because you’ve automatically failed the first test of being a spy.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But in this case the power of suggestion failed, and the second bottle of pills was swallowed by Barrabas in a moment of oversight that fortunately had no appreciable results. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the big details of my epic fail are all here. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She never failed to thank him when he did this. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He did not fail me, nor will he. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Model organisms had failed to reveal the mechanism of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

DAD: Your mother was failed by her mother. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

While Deborah, despite their groaning, despite the humility with which she endured his body, yet failed to be quickened by any coming life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Playing old videogames never failed to clear my mind and set me at ease. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We would admit that we had made contingency plans to undertake guerrilla warfare in the event sabotage failed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They belong to a family of “inappropriate shifts” in which the writer fails to stay put at a single vantage point but vanishes from one and pops up at another. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Second, and perhaps most important of all, Prohibition failed because tens of millions of people refused to give up drinking and would do anything to get their hard liquor, beer, or wine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Their first-impression apparatus is fundamentally disabled, and the way that people with autism see the world gives us a very good sense of what happens when our mind-reading faculties fail. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

As an afterthought she mentions that she failed her year. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When predicting this utopia, he would eventually reach a point where words failed him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Howard’s friends stood on the hills and watched them go, shaking their heads at the sad sight of two athletes whose bodies had failed them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For centuries, our family has tried to find the treasure that was stolen from us. My father failed. His father failed. And all the fathers before them? Failures!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not going to put myself on the spot for having failed. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Defectors frequently quit jobs found for them by the government and start businesses that fail. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I had failed to save my mom, but only because Id let her save herself, and I knew that was the right thing. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In matters of selfless love, nothing needed to be said, and she would protect her sister, even if Cecilia failed to acknowledge her debt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I liked him being there with me, even though it meant I had failed Stick. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Three days later another large Chicago bank failed, and soon after that a third, the Evanston National Bank, in Burnham’s town. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In her current situation, her family would probably die if she failed to act. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

By now she’s learned that his architect’s mind for detail fails when it comes to everyday things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me you fail to comprehend the cause of the disrespect of which you complain,” Anthony said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And yet when he did fail, they were almost as disappointed as the driving instructor, who had contracted to provide as many lessons as were needed to pass. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zohra and I took a ton of silly shots, and I’m surprised he didn’t delete our worst selfie fails. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

At the center of the dilemma, it was a family whose leader had failed to provide the requisite guidance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew you would be different, knew you wouldn’t fail me or ask too many questions,” said Brother Ugo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He turns his head and tries to smile at me, but fails. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The misery could not have been worse had they lost an engine in flight, as planes did back in the mortal days, when technology occasionally failed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And of course, I did not fail to visit the fine cathedral, much praised by Mrs Symons in her volume. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

"But," he smiled, "they send along an attendant, a kind of censor, to see that the therapy fails." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without Quentin, I might have been too embarrassed to fail in front of God and everybody. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Without consulting her husband, she arranged for her son to be shipped off to a military prep school—the first of several failed attempts to “normalize” the boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We came so close and yet we failed.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But don’t fail to let me know if there’s anything I can do to help, no matter how slight.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Although this was likely an exaggeration, it’s clear that Bobby hated memorizing things that failed to engage his interest, and multiplication tables fell into that category. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We fail to appreciate that it is a tiny bubble in a vast multiverse of other cliques. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

No matter how deeply he breathed, soaking failed to take away his troubled thoughts. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine dangled a gloved hand in my direction and, when I failed to take it, noticed the rope that bound my wrists. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I am merely concerned for the competence of our technology. If it fails while you are around, I have to ensure that it does not continue to do so, you understand?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

This is the part of relationships that I fail at. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But as the days passed and the rumblings failed to develop into anything dramatic, people grew restless, and the view became general that the volcano wasn’t going to blow after all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The owner knew me for a Dane, but as I spoke French, I believe his attempt to cheat me failed somewhat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I loved a maid as fail as summer, with sunlight in her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Africa shifts under my hands, refusing to be party to failed relations. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost without fail they wind up back at her parents’ place. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was her responsibility to see that he was happy, and she felt somehow that she had failed on the job. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorian looked to Chaol, who failed in his attempt to not appear incredulous. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day is a blur of failed combat battles, curt conversations, and narrow escapes from Helene. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even with an entire political party conspiring to see Barack fail, we had no choice but to stay positive and carry on. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Everything we tried to do failed, and I got you guys in trouble.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It failed to reach Sagane until after the war and was returned years later to Alvarez, who put his signature to it and delivered it again to Sagane as a mordant keepsake. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He remembered her again, thought back to whether he'd failed to account for some facet of her personality in his calculations. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Sefia shrugged, though she didn’t have the courage to look up, to admit that she had failed again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“When did he . My voice fails me. “Let’s see. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But then I remembered my dream of Zoe and Hercules, and how Hercules had failed in a head-on assault. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even the white faculty behaved in a servile manner to Reverend Harris, but Mr. Mahlasela would walk into the reverend’s office without fear, and sometimes would even fail to remove his hat! Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shot a girl. She’d failed her Trial and tried to escape the stadium. Chian screamed at me to shoot her ... and I listened.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Jason, bent upon punishing this wickedness, turned to Medea for the help which had never failed him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got it but failed to gain custody of Pearl. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After his failed run for the office in 1891, Harrison had acquired a newspaper, the Chicago Times, and settled into the job of editor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When you begin probing into the origins of aids and Marburg, the light fails and things go dark, but you sense hidden connections. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Ebola sweeps through you, your immune system fails, and you seem to lose your ability to respond to viral attack. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that seeing that pathetic young soldier had upset her, and he knew, too, that she was thinking that the young soldier was not the reason the crops failed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

About 100,000 years ago, some Sapiens groups migrated north to the Levant, which was Neanderthal territory, but failed to secure a firm footing. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again Marco fails to answer, flipping through the pages of a notebook. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were always waiting for him to fail, to fall flat on his face, but he’d scored once more. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You may be certain that I laugh because they fail. O, those people with Miss Havisham, and the tortures they undergo!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world for ever.’ Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Brother Anatole, I fail to see how the church can mean anything but joy, for the few here who choose Christi-an-ity over ignorance and darkness!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When that failed Ged stood a long while there on the pavement. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

With a huff, Emily ripped the page from her notebook, crumpled it, and dropped it with the other failed attempts littering the cab of the moving van. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Holmes posted bail and forfeited the amount when Pitezel, as planned, failed to return for trial. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Still, I must say, he’d get up and make it to work the next day without fail. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Without a thought, as the twin whose legs never failed her, she shifted the basket to her left hip and took a giant step over a pyramid of oranges. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since then she did not fail to open the door furtively a little every morning and evening to look in on Gregor. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storybook clues we hoped to find once again failed to show themselves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You failed English and chemistry, and you just barely passed history and math! Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But almond trees use more water than almost everything—and with rationing set so low, the almond farms failed first. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A three-day strike that is canceled on the first day is only a one-day failure; a strike that fails three days running is a fiasco. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to come up with something to say, but words failed him as he stood on the chemistry desk, looking at the guy who everyone knew liked to cut class and cause trouble. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I fail to see how that is at all relevant,” the trickster god muttered, but he didn’t move. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The fear was that if the bomb failed, government support for all other work in the field would cease, and research into the atom’s benefits to society would go fallow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even care anymore about Mikayla or the failed mission. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It's the one thing we can really do, and it is not for nothing: if he were to falter, fail, or die, what would become of us? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

On closer examination, you detected something in his face that displeased, or rather that failed to please. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Within us there is a strong, true purpose, and if we fail in this purpose we will be forever lost. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That, and this woman shouts into the phone, every time, without fail. “'¥eah, hi, love.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Laundry, and then I have to study for the Trig test or I’m going to fail.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had failed him and failed the Lady, and now Calder was hurt. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They failed to arrive at the scheduled time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The real reason, according to Elijah, that I failed to realize that the white man was a devil was that I had been too long exposed to white teaching and had never received true instruction. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

His cold touch on my skin never failed to make my heart thud erratically. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But while this description of the mechanism of heredity solved Mendel’s question—how does like beget like?—it failed to solve Darwin's converse riddle: How does like beget unlike? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk- story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You would have failed me completely had I not intervened. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you don’t fail. Then I’ll be the only girl in the program next year.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

When black youth find it difficult or impossible to live up to these standards—or when they fail, stumble, and make mistakes, as all humans do—shame and blame is heaped upon them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I thought he was being silly, but I remembered when Ron had called me after I’d failed to make Nationals the first time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if Iphigenia’s plan could not fail. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was a failed cutting from a more sophisticated culture in the Andes, a cousin of Wari or Tiwanaku. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most of us struggle and often fail to meet the biggest challenges of our lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I may have failed on my diplomatic mission, but I have so much to tell my people!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Miss Trixie,” Mr. Gonzalez said quickly, like a master of ceremonies trying to end a variety act that had failed horribly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over and over he had tried to create a world to live in, and over and over he had failed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He understood that Harley had bargained for it; he realized that Harley knew how it would end if he failed to get the victim he had named. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When you spend your entire life in and around the city of Chicago, as it turns out, you fail to fully apprehend certain facets of rural life. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The chatter among her fellow nursing students was that a thin envelope meant you passed; a thick one, presumably filled with the things you got wrong, meant you failed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

You don’t spend all this time with a nutty couple like Max and Valerie to have it fail. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If they believed her story, and it was doubtful they would, they almost certainly would fail to realise what an astounding event it was that had taken place in the classroom that afternoon. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

This involved a return to Ernest’s old “brute force” method: when all else failed, dial up the energy, step up the current, and wait for something to happen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I thought I was careful, but I failed to read the 1st line of instructions: Show all work. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She listens to something about a heart attack, that it had been massive, that all attempts to revive him had failed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And they, the outstanding members of the illegal group, were also doomed, since if he failed to get them, someone else would. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

At least none of the others had to watch, although, unless they were very far away, they could not have failed to hear the screams. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every night Mami told me how I had failed in my duty as a female, as a sister, as the eldest. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My mother actually breaks down and buys these on occasion when her home remedies fail. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

So it was perhaps understandable that during Dr. Muller’s house calls we failed to mention the troubling anomaly of Lefty’s multiple strokes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“A year, Gum Baby. You were gone for a year. You had one job, simple, and you failed. And then you bring this boy with you—what were you thinking?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She began to see things she had failed to see before. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, shortly after dark, after Beidleman’s group failed to return and the storm had risen to hurricane intensity, Boukreev realized they must be in trouble and made a courageous attempt to bring oxygen to them. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Each day bulked, a wrong guess, a thing Ralph had failed to take into account. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the friendliest and best-paying maid service I have encountered—$6.65 an hour, though as a punishment this will drop to $6 for two weeks if I fail to show up for a day. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to keep the screech out of her voice, but she was pretty sure she failed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I loved a maid as fail as summer, he remembered, with sunlight in her hair ... A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Likewise, since he had failed to get anybody to the top in 1995, it would have been bad for Hall’s business if he failed again in 1996—especially if Fischer succeeded. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

If either factor failed—if reproduction failed to produce variants or if heredity failed to transmit the variations—then nature would be mired in a ditch, the cogwheels of evolution jammed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

To the air he had returned, summoning his steed ere the darkness failed, and now he was come again, bringing ruin, turning hope to despair, and victory to death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I trembled and my heart failed within me, when, on looking up, I saw by the light of the moon the dæmon at the casement. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beam not only facilitated more sophisticated experiments but also provided a new “vaudeville” for Lawrence to exploit, for it never failed to elicit gasps of astonishment from his visitors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Rather than normal meal kits, most of the food was cubed protein bar material, which would still be edible even if Iris failed to deploy its tumble balloons and impacted at incredible speed. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship is made of millions of separate parts assembled redundantly, so that if some component fails, others will take over its responsibilities. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still I couldn’t enter any tribal university because I had failed my mother tongue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, then when my strength fails,” Antigone answered, “I will give up.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When observation fails to align with a truth, what do you trust—your senses or your truth? Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As he reloaded, he felt something so rare his heart nearly failed; he felt Hester’s face pressed to his own, and it was wet with tears. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he could not see, and was mad with pain, he failed to keep under cover, and so was shot down before anyone could go and fetch him in. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She failed three courses out of five. How could she blame the teachers for that?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kerala was reeling in the aftermath of famine and a failed monsoon. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not dare go inside, for while they had failed—utterly failed—to save a single book, still they had tried. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If he failed today there would be more than enough chances to redeem himself. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You’re here for a reason—and it’s not to fail and die.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

If Swope failed to get that much, Howard said, he could take Seabiscuit to a certain western track, which had already offered such a sum. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then the summer before fourth grade I gave my bone marrow to Michael. It was his last chance. Everything else had failed.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, she never failed to respond. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have to try to be some kind of hero, wouldn’t have to fail—and soon it would be too late to matter. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yet should a crop fail or a war be lost, we cut his throat to appease the gods and choose a new prince from amongst the forty families.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He grew weaker and often failed to complete his work assignments, which led to more beatings, less food, more bleeding. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But McLane also failed because, at the last minute, British warships unexpectedly appeared. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

During a period of unexampled intellectual ferment in physics, there were few topics on which Oppenheimer failed to publish a letter or paper. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Permian’s fourth down at the Marshall 20 fails. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think we go to labor camps if we fail? June, the only labor camps are the morgues in hospital basements.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The machine failed to work unless the bullet was close to the skin surface. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every Friday, without fail, my mother would light the Shabbat candles just long enough to say the evening blessings. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Klansmen were the descendants of failed farmers and broken mill hands just like himself. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If you missed the test, failed the test, weren’t where you said you would be on your schedule, or failed to submit your whereabouts for the quarter, that would count as a failed test. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Our minds were turned, I suppose, to our fates, should our expedition fail, and to the torments that awaited us; and thus our conversation turned upon the dismal subject of punishment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But observation and historical records have failed to uncover a single case of a state’s being formed in that ethereal atmosphere of dispassionate farsightedness. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel realized that he had been careless to allow everyone to gather round Dandelion and to have failed to post even one sentry. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When words fail him, the Rooster has been known to communicate with his fists, which, though quick and solid, are no larger than a couple of tangerines. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And she would stand straight as a sentinel, until three times her eyesight failed her and Bing turned into a dark spot of churning seaweed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper wanted to think he was happy and content right now ... in case they failed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He failed, his arms again pointing to the distant ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I know. You tried to train a successor and it failed. Why? Why did that remind them?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of holding political criminals for life, these camps briefly incarcerated— and occasionally tortured—traders who failed to pay bribes to security officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But Hazel knew if he tried, he would fail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I could not help feeling that I had failed a test, in their eyes and in my own, or that I had failed to heed a warning. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

But his instincts had failed him in the new set of circumstances presented by the murder. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed,” said U.S. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

So it was that Ralph felt not only his future to have failed, but with it his past, the twin engine that might have sustained him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other children screamed, and some of them tried to grab at him as he left the hut, but they failed to stop their brother and he was gone. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Fig and I couldn’t afford for this lemonade stand to fail. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

On the day before the final deadline, the local organizers told Anthony that they had failed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But Elizabeth was not for a moment fooled, and did not, for as long as she lived with her, fail to despise her aunt. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe he could succeed where Jen had failed precisely because he wasn’t a Baron—because he didn’t have her sense that the world owed him everything. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You supported me even after you lost Javier. You still cared about me. So don’t you dare say you failed us. You didn’t fail me.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And these things happen—these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Why did New Guineans continue to use stone tools instead of developing metal tools, remain nonliterate, and fail to organize themselves into chiefdoms and states? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Without fail, we knew we could expect some form of harassment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she marveled at how, after all these years of rattling loose, she had found in this little creature the first true connection in her life of false, failed connections. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

After a stint in politics, he tried to discover another gusher but failed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But if Winner Lane could hardly be expected to fail, could Loser Lane possibly succeed? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“It is earned through obedience and good behavior, but you’ve failed in your duties. What should be done with a boy who sneaks around and takes things the others don’t have?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The party spent two months chasing the beasts but failed to catch a single one. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At least, that was her escort’s intention, because she hadn’t failed to notice when they went up and down the same staircase within a matter of minutes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I promised that I would always tell Rashidi in which direction I was going, so that he would know where to look for me if I failed to turn up in the evening. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not set your will against the Augurs, Keris Veturia. You will fail. You can come willingly to the amphitheater, or I can compel you. Which shall it be?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Their secret! as she heard it told, her knees grew tremulous and weak, her heart failed her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He failed a grade or two in elementary school,” said Camilla. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His father had sent for him as soon as Marcus had eaten—or failed to eat—his breakfast, and interrogated him sternly for half an hour. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But there comes an inevitable moment when your speed fails to sustain your forward progress. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Min never failed to reject his first attempt. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want him to know that I had failed Maribel again. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was such an unfathomable condition that Gaston failed in his efforts to become intimate with him and had to seek other pastimes for his idle hours. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I know we ask a lot of you as a community, but you never fail to turn out and support our center, and all those who benefit from it,” Imam Malik continues. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

If a Haitian didn’t recover from TB, it was usually because, for one reason or another, he failed to take his antibiotics as instructed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture the tall, somber master angry and failed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘You tried to give us the slip once before and failed, Frodo,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Eric had failed miserably at the game of Wooing Haitian Mother-in-Law. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Why did peoples outside the Fertile Crescent fail to domesticate them, and begin to grow them only when they had already been domesticated in the eastern Mediterranean and arrived thence as crops? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Usually joins in the conversation, never fails to give his opinion. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We stood by watching, growing more anxious with each failed attempt. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Apologies if I failed to properly introduce myself,” said the Gypsy leader. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had never failed her, not even when she had married and they had spent a year apart. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew that Cilia, usually as today toting Isannah along with her, never failed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he pulled something off, that was smart; if he failed, that was bad luck. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I explained briefly that I had come up looking for work to pay my way through college and had failed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Milligan, please take my brother with you. We must separate him from his machine. If I fail to disable it, you must do everything in your power to keep him away from it.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even his reliable friends the Germans failed him in this crisis: they preferred ersat2. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, each form developed its own machinery for survival, and some failed and disappeared while others peopled the earth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Revolving my thoughts upon this curious state, I resolved thus: I would not fail 03-01. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was one time, though, when he failed. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is the only business left to us. The only business once the shipyards fail—as they will within a year. Write the letter.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Senate voted on the suffrage amendment on February 10, and it failed to pass again, but this time by only a single vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“And I had to go to them. I had failed them once, but I couldn’t let them be taken from me again.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn't because he failed to make things work in Mexico. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And Eril-Fane, it was his fate to see his bride led down the sinister corridor—door after door of little rooms with nothing in them but beds—and finally, Isagol’s calculus failed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But they failed a few seconds later, and the Vonnegut’s hull suffered an alarming amount of damage in the handful of seconds it took me to make the jump to light speed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I'm crying for Mrs. Janssen, who has no one and who I told I would help and who trusted me and who I failed. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had been so confident that I had failed to put aside the price of train fare home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Family therapy, couples therapy, but marriage ultimately failed. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Benny asked, like maybe his hearing had failed him. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But in the ranks of the party itself a storm broke loose and I was branded a traitor, an unstable personality, and one whose faith had failed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fannie Moore, a young visitor from Memphis, failed to return to the home where she was boarding and was never seen again. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Alkahest was a universal solvent, true to its name, and had never failed him before. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You think that education is something which ought to be done when all else fails?*’ inquired Merlyn nastily, for he was in a bad mood too. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You had an opportunity to lead in an enlightened way,” she wrote to DAR President General Robert, “and it seems to me that your organization has failed.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Or did a part of him enjoy watching me fail? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he told himself, edging under a shopfront as the morning rain came down like tears, he had not failed. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The plot failed and the Junkers were executed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For this reason, IOI had attempted several hostile takeovers of Gregarious Simulation Systems, all of which had failed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This, I thought, was what my father had been envisioning all those years ago when words had failed him, not necessarily this scene, but something equally capable of provoking such wonder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hitler’s planned invasion, Operation Sea Lion, failed three years ago. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

‘I just feel that I have failed,’ he said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some nests contained no eggs; others contained eggs that failed to hatch. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The man said he was returning from a failed attempt to find work; he had no food, no money, and no winter coat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

After their move, Alma’s kidneys failed, and she began dialysis treatments three days a week. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

How Minos, King of Crete, failed to sacrifice a white bull to Poseidon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After the first few blasts failed to bring down the structures, Hildreth figured out precisely how much powder was needed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Lace, obviously. It’s England. And why are you trying to make me fail this class?” he says, reaching for his laptop only to have his hand swatted away. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If he meant to jar my mother or make her smile, he failed. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I will see to the front line, Father. Don’t worry. I will not fail” He nodded politely to Tyson. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I failed miserably in my attempt to sound nonchalant. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know—I don’t care. Somehow you will fail. Something will defeat you. Life will defeat you.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That was the last Jody saw of them, for when they failed to catch the rabbit, they went back home. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed a translucent rose petal between my fingertips, wondering why they had failed to transform her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Kote tried to relax, failed, fidgeted, sighed, shifted in his seat, and without willing it his eyes fell on the chest at the foot of the bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was a kid who’d failed freshman year at the regular public high school because she never showed up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But a discussion of “countries like Jamaica and China” which fails to identify their commonality—being similar in some way to Cuba—is bound to be incoherent. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Our harvests had failed again, and it looked as if we were going to lose our lands if we didn’t get some cash quick. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure how they would pull off a rescue if scalding the monster with salt failed, but Seth was right about one thing—they couldn’t just abandon Grandpa. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He just knows that at some point, one of the punches failed to connect because he was flying up, up, up. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Dimple tried to smile and failed, so she settled for a nod. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone must have seen them, or heard their muted laughter, or smelled the heavy pomade on their hair—or perhaps failed to see them at all. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they failed to meet expectations, everyone in his class was penalized. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Blew up a bridge and failed to stop the German army.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Every time an experiment failed, Stanley could hear him cursing his dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandfather. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe he failed out because he simply didn’t like his classes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not because she was absurd, or repulsive, or because we were frightened, but because we had failed her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he’d meant it as a compliment he couldn’t have failed more. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The season was slipping away, the fabled cry of “State in eighty-eight!” that had been etched on the backs of cars and scribbled in yearbooks a minute away from becoming a failed dream. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before, there were over a million U.S. and Saigon troops, and you failed,” Tho explained. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Besides, there would have been an uproar if word had got out about how Clara had found the head where the bloodhounds had failed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

People would have to leave the hot area and be deconned out before their batteries failed, or they would be in trouble. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The possibility that Gregor might fail made the whole prophecy more plausible. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I say: "It might fail. They are only going to be in these containers for a short time. We are just starting out here." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Teller’s departure from Los Alamos failed to quell interest in a second laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

After collective bargaining failed, Carnegie shut down its Homestead plant and locked out the union workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Dries tries to get some money for their venture, too, and fails. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had always been independent, self-sufficient, but she’d lost that part of herself at the mercy of someone else’s failed dream. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As Darwin was beginning to write his opus on evolution in the spring of 1856, Gregor Mendel decided to return to Vienna to retake the teacher’s exam that he had failed in 1850. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

King’s men in one comer and queens men in another, Jon did not fail to note, but only a few. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Not even her father could have failed to guess that Judith was in love. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tanaka smoked one or two cigarettes a week on the back patio, but she failed to consider that Kaori’s bedroom window was usually downwind, which meant the smoke blew right by the spirit chamber. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And even though I was hoping throughout the dinner that my mother would somehow see Rich’s kindness, his sense of humor and boyish charm, I knew he had failed miserably in her eyes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Reason does not matter, Aspirant Veturius. Only loyalty. If you defy the order, you fail the Trial. The punishment for failure is death.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The officers testified that the driver failed to use his turn signal and accelerated abruptly from a stop sign. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t come this far only to fail the ones I’ve known longest and care for most. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Dragon King added, “And do not fear. No harm will come to you if you fail. I called you here as my old friend.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I happened to kill the man the professor turned after his vaccine failed. Professor Ghering was no Louis Pasteur, I can tell you that. You can ask my Miss Katherine, she was there, too.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Actually, Carson had predicted that the campaign would fail even if the spraying continued as mosquito-control experts wanted. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He was never very good at this last part of the act, either because I failed to throw the hoop properly or because he clumsily ran into it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he doesn't sell me at all, my attempt to save Darin will fail. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I failed my classes, and the principal informed me I would have to repeat junior year. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The failed thief steps away and stands in front of me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Adam wet his dry lips and tried to ask and failed and tried again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And even if one reached the door, you couldn’t enter the trailer, because the delivery team had failed to leave a set of keys. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

If the wrist failed him, then the touch had fled and he would be forced to challenge the tall men who dwelled beneath the basket with swift drives that they would quickly move to intercept. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was failing her, and if he failed she would send him to the too-warm dream world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Placed in vocational school program in Juvenile Hall, failed to turn in work. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As darkness settled, the Spirit Bear failed to show itself again. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It made me wonder, again, how he possibly could’ve failed at his quest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a private and unobtrusive moment, one that failed to dent the rhythm of the office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was the first time Hermione had ever failed to answer a teacher’s question. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Any magic they used would only lead to less tolerable retribution if they failed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At first, indeed, she failed to grasp the point of the story. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I was the reason she cut classes and failed French, the cause of everything nasty and dangerous. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Yet again he had failed to share his meal with Crane-man. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Outside the window, Wilfrido’s team took down tents and booths, so I had a clear view of La Cocina—a reminder of my failed attempt to convince the neighborhood that the restaurant belonged. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When he came to the part about men who failed to do their duty being punished by instant death, it embarrassed him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a drawn-out series of death throes—the precise sequence of events depends, again, on the mass of the star—the star’s fusion engine fails, and the star begins to collapse under its own gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care. Just remember that without my help, your quest will fail. And everyone you love in the world will die. Now, off with you! Bring me a harpy!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But this also failed, and the patches continued to spread. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Only the most shortsighted, however, failed to recognize that electronic computers were around for the long haul. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The night remained calm and still, but Matthias and Constance stayed alert, both knowing if they failed to observe this rudimentary law of nature, the penalty could be fatal. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Menelik had rebuffed the Italians in the last century, though Ethiopia failed to halt them in this one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The American doctors who had already failed the Bush Hill patients were so upset that they even promised to show up more regularly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the monkey house, the air-handling equipment had failed for good. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson remembered his oath to his wife, and his failed promise to Seattle the year before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Yet this view fails to reckon with the persuasive powers of Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller, which played the crucial role in creating momentum for the H-bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Every prisoner knew the first rule of Camp 14, subsection 2: “Any witness to an attempted escape who fails to report it will be shot immediately.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” she says, holding the cigarette, which she has failed to light. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had no idea how to get out of here, but she knew she had to succeed where her siblings had failed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe they felt guilty, like somehow they'd failed him and brought him to this place. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He regrets his failed life, his crimes against the children of Tartarus! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She would not be bringing Edward back with her to make her heart content, but she knew she had not failed him, and she breathed a heavy sigh of sadness, disappointment, and relief. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the diet failed, she considered another consisting largely of fruit and vegetables sprinkled with an herbal powder. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The blackberries got ripe, and Mrs. Zuckerman failed to put up any blackberry jam. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The fair wind, once heaven set it blowing, never failed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When the World of Men failed, my family would continue on, unaffected. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But other crops and domestic animals failed to spread between Mesoamerica and South America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The kestrel had not yet seen it, but could hardly fail to do so as soon as it moved. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creditors now hired an attorney named George B. Chamberlin, counsel for Chicago’s Lafayette Collection Agency, who had been pestering Holmes ever since he failed to pay the furnace company for improving his kiln. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me the bank’s failed. Banks is failing all over. Had I better draw out my funds? Is there time?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

If it was so easy to lead one’s country in various directions, as if she was a pig on a string, why had he failed to lead her into chivalry, into justice and into peace? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new government was unable to cope with its country’s needs, and failed crops resulted in a horrific famine that lasted into 1922 and killed millions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"A king's place is with his people. Besides, if I fail—as I might against such a she-devil—who would there be to protect this land of Danes?" Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in a hotel in Manhattan for five months while my parents waited for the revolution to fail or for the Americans to intervene in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet she knew tonight how difficult it was to overturn the earth, for she had tried once, and she had failed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It's an expression that never fails to defeat me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Scientists fail all the time. You tried. That’s what counts. You have to keep at it. Just like Marie Curie.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe he’d try and fail to get into national politics and that this would then motivate him to want to try something entirely different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The agricultural depression, taken together with a series of failed reforms and broken political promises, had pyramided to a climax of social tensions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a valiant effort, but it had failed—and as they turned around to descend, Hall’s chances for survival all but vanished. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I believe we wouldn’t have let each other fail. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was it like an ace at tennis: you only know you have served one after your opponent has failed to make a return. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then, seeing the look on my face I failed at hiding, he added—And I’ll be back every single Sunday to spend time with my most favorite person in the world. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘If you want my advice, make for Rivendell. That journey should not prove too perilous, though the Road is less easy than it was, and it will grow worse as the year fails.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had attended one of the most important seminars in his scientific life—and failed to take notes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Your other duties shall remain unchanged, ser. Should this peace fail, His Radiance would still wish for you to command his forces against the enemies of our city.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was responsible for him and I failed him. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Although formerly popular, this type of explanation, too, fails to survive scrutiny. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What the press—and seemingly everyone else—failed to understand was that it was Bobby’s shrewdness in protecting his financial interests, rather than temper tantrums or neuroses, that was making him hesitate. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because regulation of a legal market is bound to fail when a healthy black market exists for the same product. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The old man’s knees failed him, his heart grew faint, recalling all that Odysseus calmly told. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He would watch the show To Tell the Truth, and without fail he could always pick out the people who were lying,” his son Mark recalls. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He remembers how it was studying for his licensing exam, which he failed twice before passing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though, Otto supposed, the flip side was someone like Leen Ellison, who failed to keep her inventions contained anywhere, usually resulting in mayhem. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This theory fails to explain, however, why McCandless didn’t, then, also trash the bus. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I failed even in that; the Holy Ghost was simply nowhere near me . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Swarm was the one problem the House of Moneekrom had failed to crack. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the giant Orion was correct: she’d failed in her duties. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All the city’s wealth, however, had failed to shake the widespread perception that Chicago was a secondary city that preferred butchered hogs to Beethoven. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I will beat my body into ruins for you. Perhaps I will fail. But no one will try harder.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We all have them. I suppose the crops failed and you starved.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His joke had failed, Aurelia had gone over to the “enemy,” and Marcus had, for the moment, returned to his spoiled, childish self. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

What he was saying was that we had to start somewhere, either succeed or fail, and then build what we knew as we went along. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When that scheme failed, they attempted to talk him out of the barn! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it were not so, the wickedness of the powerful or the folly of the wise would long ago have sought to change what cannot be changed, and Equilibrium would fail. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I replied to your reply, but you failed to acknowledge my acknowledgment, ’’said Howie, who liked to play email ping-pong. acquaintance. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we had never retrieved the car—or any of our stuff—from the failed Grand Canyon expedition, the first thing Mom needed was a set of wheels. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The artificial life force animating them seemed to fail if pressed too far...at least in some of them. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I countered by saying that in fact nonviolence had failed us, for it had done nothing to stem the violence of the state nor change the heart of our oppressors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If she failed to please ...” “She did all that was required of her.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Still, heading into the second half of November, the Trazon started to fail me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The scheme failed because there were no pearls and anyway Norwood’s bell didn’t work, but Norwood was not one to waste an experience. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But if that girl exists inside me, I fail to coax her out from hiding. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the light began to fail, and the driver and Mollie had to stop and set up camp. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Her daughters never called her Mom except when they wanted her to feel how much she had failed them in this country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Papin became increasingly discontented in Hesse, where the landgrave failed to give his researches the support he felt they warranted, and so he determined to return to England. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Do not fail me, he thought, or Stannis will have my head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Carrie had started a jewelry boutique with her trust and ran it for a number of years until it failed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

At least I had the reasonable belief she wasn’t trying to fail. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

A side effect of the surgery, he discovered early in the Everest climb, was that the low barometric pressure that exists at high altitude caused his eyesight to fail. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The ache failed to respond to the bath, and I knew then that the pain was more serious than that which anyone had ever suffered. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he failed, he would be sent to the Farms, and then what would become of Anna and the children, and his father, who was so old? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having failed to find Gobblers below ground, Lyra took to the streets again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He could do this, he would do this, his father had sent him to the far ends of the earth for this, he would not fail him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I failed my own Trial when I was ten. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Though he was blind and deaf, he never failed to recognize things and his memory of the past and the immediate present was remarkable. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I suck at homework when I have the internet and textbooks at my disposal, then I’m going to completely fail when it’s just me and the blank page. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If the Ferris wheel failed, there was absolutely nothing Sahil could do to fight off gravity, unless he was hiding some major superpowers. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After the third failed attempt within the hour, Koffi spoke up. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now it’s going to take all he’s got to keep Peeta alive in an arena full of his old friends, and he’ll probably fail. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Where sight fails the earth may bring us rumour,’ said Aragorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

So, this is what it feels like to fail. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Woodrow Wilson, on a nationwide tour to gain support for the League of Nations, failed to give it his full attention. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He simply supplied the texts, aided with the translations, and rapped my hand when I failed at declension or agreement. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After many failed attempts to fight the Long Knives, a new plan was made. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Everything else, stretching back throughout recorded time, was merely a history of those exceptions who had tried to change the world and had failed. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I never see Pri doing any schoolwork, but somehow she doesn’t fail her classes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was even an attempted coup, but it failed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hancock had indeed found a smith to make it after Mr. Lapham failed so lamentably. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we try to imitate this feat, we usually fail miserably. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

All attempts to go back to sleep failed, so I lay there with the BiPAP pumping the air in and urging it out, enjoying the dragon sounds but wishing I could choose my breaths. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

No football player could fail to recognize what I was experiencing right then. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The MAD principle argued that a first strike against the enemy would almost certainly fail to destroy its entire nuclear arsenal and would lead to an immediate cycle of retaliation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well. I guess I shall have to try again. Troublesome creature. You almost foiled me once, but you failed. And you shall fail again.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

At the last minute his courage failed him and he floated fatly by without looking in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, I guess most failed attempts aren’t entirely sincere, because, let’s face it, if you want to off yourself, there are plenty of ways to make sure it works. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Who knows, maybe they had failed to discover the secret of the Master Work—the Philosopher’s Stone—and for this reason kept their knowledge to themselves. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the batteries failed, or when it was too dangerous to let a light show, they’d have to feel their way in the dark to fix the heavy bombs in place beneath the Po-2s’ wings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Hoover, who believed that his men should conquer their deficiencies the way he had conquered his childhood stutter, purged anyone who failed to meet his exacting standards. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If you failed the test, you got a small envelope; if you got in, you got a big one. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But the tube failed on the day that Crocker came out to the Rad Lab to see it in action. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Without fail, every time I come into Hernando's, he sings my name at the top of his lungs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"Mrs. Garfield looked so thin and clung so tenderly to the President's arm,” he wrote later that day, "my heart failed me to part them, and I decided to take him alone.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But the gods can’t die now, right? I mean, as long as Western civilization is alive, they’re alive. So . . . even if I failed, nothing could happen so bad it would mess up everything, right?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most important, my mind was in the game—I was determined not to fail level seven a second time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Samira, pretend you fail your math test, and some kid in your class calls you stupid.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He paused, and I thought perhaps the connection had failed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Hobbits were grieved at this parting; for Aragorn had never failed them and he had been their guide through many perils. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Well, everybody laughed at that, but I failed to see the humor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And one by one, the failed bank robber takes me to each place. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And if I failed to hide the wound we were certain to experience another scene of violence. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the electric undercarriage failed, and she had to earn her keep by taking her turn at the hand pump so they didn’t have to crash land. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The Edsel, the Ford Motor Company’s famous flop from the 1950s, failed because people thought it looked funny. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, my hearing sometimes fails me; it sounded like you said you squeezed rocks.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Only when everything else failed did a good sheriff make an arrest. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the bond issue to renovate the dilapidated civic center failed not once but twice he could not help but wonder if there could ever be any real progress in a place like that. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To have failed at one's Assignment—to be reassigned—had something of a shame to it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Stan stood in the street, collecting all of the failed attempts. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And what the scorching, searing, freezing, poisoning weapons of non-life have failed to do may be accomplished to the end of its destruction and extinction by the tactics of survival gone sour. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, I’d failed to save someone who had needed my help. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Grabbing from behind was an old game of his, and seldom had he failed in it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her first attempt, which failed utterly, concerned my attention to details. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They never failed in helping me to further my own education. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the second it took him to try and fail to count the legion of spiders surrounding him, he knew it was true. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I go home, knowing I have failed her, and also myself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting in front, and each time I attempt to look at him, I fail. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Truth...perhaps...you think you two could succeed where the FBI has failed?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had light hair braided in a crown about her head and a serious face that a few freckles failed to relieve. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

If the wights and hollows failed again, this time they’d destroy a lot more than five hundred miles of empty forest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My enthusiasm plummeted when he failed to trot, waddle, or even slink down the hall. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But I knew deep down I was going to fail. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When historical or archaeological dates are examined in detail, they fail to support the view of irrigation as the driving force for state formation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But often I feel like they just want me to fail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the process was an all-or-nothing one; either you failed to modify at all, or else you modified the whole way. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It never failed; even today, with paintings crying and strangers lurking, the scent of her mom’s chicken and rice eased her mind away from all that trouble, at least for a few seconds. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Without fail, I think of her every time I stumble upon an episode of Wheel of Fortune, and wonder how the hell Pat Sajak and Vanna White haven't aged since the early nineties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Venkatesh soon encountered another anomalous young Fellow, one who also failed the society stereotype. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Because Dillehay’s team had failed to identify properly the location of the stone tools in Monte Verde, Fiedel said, their antiquity was up to question; they could have been in a recent sediment layer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Inmates who ask for protection but fail to get it can make expensive claims. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bits failed to stay, I looked for a place to hide the damage, but finding none, I simply ate it, bolting the pieces like a hungry dog. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He becomes jealous if there is competition and he fails “to drive away rival.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had so much trouble picturing her ordinary life that his imagination failed him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

So, naturally, Percy expected a massive last-minute fail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If that failed, she’d just sniff and say, “Trust me, you wouldn’t recognize the brand.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was no talk of their coming back, unless their attempt to grow their own food should fail—and she did not believe that would happen; they were too smart. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And I began to see these two arms in relation— those who failed in the schools justified their destruction in the streets. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She channeled her anger, which wasn’t hard—she hated that gold, she hated her curse, she hated thinking about her past and all the ways she’d failed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Honestly, if I have a choice, I’d pick not to fail. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He was feeling guilty, because he had failed to give his friend Mathias Wacker a New Year’s present. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I have to pause and take a breath, because I have not convinced him; I have failed, and this is probably the last thing they will let me say before they arrest me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sorry that I failed with James and that now I have failed with Ann and Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If electrifying the water failed, did he mean to send the lightning bolt’s energy into the force field? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He fails, and he falls into a deep depression. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To be sure, he’d been running an excellent campaign, having learned plenty from his failed congressional run. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to look at her phone anymore, to see all the failed messages, the evidence of his rejection, of how she’d broken their friendship. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Kendra said.“We must. If we fail to reach an arrangement, Nero will not let us leave unscathed.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

If we didn’t reach it soon, our muscles would fail and we’d drown. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Rubbing her eyes failed to cure her warped vision. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When she failed a test, he consoled her as best he could. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was delighted when the lowly U.S. customs officers on the Manhattan dock failed to cringe at his aristocratic bearing and pedigree. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had so many chances to keep James safe, and I failed at all of them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He failed to stop his opponents from ripping apart most of the bags containing anti- North Korean leaflets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people really do not have any sense of the significance of what they are doing, or if they do they fail to put their thoughts on paper. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But he was a climber, not a jumper, and I knew he could only leap from so high before his gravity-sensitive superpowers failed him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If her left hand failed, the stretcher would certainly tip. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I know you will not fail us, Cousins.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She has this uncanny gift of delivering guilt tied up in a bow, and without fail, I accept it. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“We expected many of you to do well based on your performance over the two years. But when the results came from Pretoria, we found that many of you had failed.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1820 it was abundantly clear that they had failed in this mission, with Jefferson himself the most visible symbol of the failure. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was the only person I had ever seen defeat evil where all else had failed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew Gus, as he knew himself, and he knew that one of them might fail through fear at the decisive moment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet those other Mediterranean zones not only failed to rival the Fertile Crescent as early sites of food production; they never gave rise to indigenous agriculture at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to distract himself with more positive thoughts but, given the circumstances, failed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since I have failed to keep him safe in life, I must find him, kill him now before the Capitol gets to choose the agonizing means of his death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of the failed sleepover at her house. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

His model was intended as a way of achieving that and, on its own terms, it failed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Stone-hard are the Dwarves in labour or journey, but this endless chase began to tell on him, as all hope failed in his heart. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Birdie would never fit back in his life the way she used to, and it would only make him feel worse if she tried and failed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My dates can’t fail to be impressed by my physical condition. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He’s heard stories about this sort of thing happening in the olden days, but in his lifetime the power underground never fails. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I always felt we failed her that way.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The engine fails seven or eight times, and I walk across the lawn, open the passenger door, and get in. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But if the idea of Mo becoming a martyr was meant to make the reality of his passing easier to take, it had totally failed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

You failed no one—monsters are the ones who do the monstering, not you. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As much as I hate sports, never once did I fail on purpose when she asked me to try out for basketball. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“He was obviously intoxicated. He agreed to a Breathalyzer and failed it when it was administered. The trooper brought him down here and we put him in the lock-up. That was about two-twenty-five a.m.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I failed to see the hissy S as a solution to the problem and continued to talk normally, at least at home, where my lazy tongue fell upon equally lazy ears. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The fall on the floor had failed to stir him, and I would be unable to do so. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m no longer the odd man out. Between you three reconnecting when Ben and I weren’t talking and all the hanging out in summer school, you guys had me wishing I failed chemistry too.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

No matter how strong or lucky he was, no matter how many monsters he destroyed, Percy would eventually fail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When that fail he make straight for his last resource—his last earth-work I might say did I wish double entente. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Thornton’s doubt was strong in his face, but his fighting spirit was aroused—the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to recognize the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for battle. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, Susanna began to fail rapidly and died within a few months. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Woodciiff,” he asked, “did I have an appointment I failed to notice?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The only children who come over every day, without fail, are my cousins, Dennis and Lily. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

According to testimony, after the bond issue for the civic center failed, Hammond was in on a scheme to torch the building in order to collect insurance money. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

With just a little bad luck, one of the whites would spot me, or, in the darkness, fail to spot me and step on me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

This thought drifted about in his head but failed to gain meaning. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

If you flew your technology-based starship into a zone where technology didn’t function, your engines would fail the moment you crossed the zone border. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know where the levees had failed, but he knew anyone living nearby would have been quickly overwhelmed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Filch was the Hogwarts caretaker, a bad-tempered, failed wizard who waged a constant war against the students and, indeed, Peeves. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

That if put to the test, the humanities fail. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

His eyes brimmed with such pity and sadness, I sobbed and crumpled over myself, ashamed at how close I had come, so very close, just to fail. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Because you and he are connected by the curse that failed,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The man Jack’s own rise through the Order had slowed and stopped after he had failed to kill all of the Dorian family. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“You’re the smartest kid in the school. And I don’t want you to fail. I don’t want you to fade away. You deserve better.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s failed the last two quizzes, and we have a test coming up next week that I’m afraid he won’t be ready for. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It appeared the same: a gray tinge glowed through the whiteness, and Kimbro had failed to detect it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That too had been a failure, because those who had achieved the Quest had become perfect and been lost to the world, while those who had failed in it had soon returned no better. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t failed that IQ test I wouldn’t be reduced to this ignominious task with its attendant emotional by-products. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lawrence further assured Groves that, if Oppenheimer failed in his task, he would step in himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Is it true your son died flying, Uncle? I heard you made him enormous wings, but they failed.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"I'll think about it," says Tiny, but I know he can't possibly restrain himself from having another brief and failed romance. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The failed uprising plunged the whole country into despair again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He should have graduated last year, but, like me, he had failed first grade because he did not speak English well enough. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They move in the best society, are valuable persons for us to know, and I wouldn’t fail to make a good impression there for anything.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they failed to dot an i or cross a t, they could be rejected. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if her path and Elena’s demands were now tied closely together, she wouldn’t become the King’s Champion just to serve some ghost’s agenda—an agenda that Elena had twice now failed to reveal. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Our hands find each other, holding fast to a part of 12 that Snow has somehow failed to destroy. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

However, the archaeological literature can be confusing in this respect, because many books and papers report uncalibrated dates as B.C. and fail to mention that they are actually uncalibrated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If your heart fails in District 12, it’s unlikely your family could get you to my mother in time, anyway. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The inspector hurried over and said, “I’m sorry, madam, you’ve failed the test; please make another appointment.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt struggled to say something but his tongue failed him so he jumped down off the porch and walked away as mad as he could be. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Zeiss didn’t hit me again, but she failed me in reading, math, conduct, and everything else except gym and attendance. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I know I have failed to provide it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It would be embarrassing for Otrera if her followers failed in their duties—if, for instance, they were overcome by an outsider and a prison break occurred.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You are too willful,” Pol said, observing her latest failed attempt. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The reader starts to think, Who is this “we” who fail to appreciate them? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I cannot put on that tunic tomorrow and fail, not without bringing disgrace on my household. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His legs failed him so he crawled toward the road, fumbling in his jacket pocket for his phone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He struggles but fails to recall her presence at Pemberton Road; still, he is secretly pleased that she has seen those rooms, tasted his mother’s cooking, washed her hands in the bathroom, however long ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The crime bill had failed to pass the state legislature, losing by five votes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Second, Wes failed the sixth grade at “Chicken Pen” and had to repeat it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They had been going for a long while — Pippin had tried to keep count of the ‘ent-strides’ but had failed, getting lost at about three thousand — when Treebeard began to slacken his pace. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Having failed as a journalist and lawyer, Guiteau moved on to new schemes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’d say if he’s trying to make things safer, he’s already failed.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If she does well, the audience cannot fail to notice. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Word was there was a fifth candidate who had failed the final test last night. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For thousands of years after corn was domesticated in Mexico, it failed to spread northward into eastern North America, because of the cooler climates and shorter growing season prevailing there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If we fail, think how great it will be for you, gloating over our spirits when we die in agony. You’ll get to say ‘I told you so’ for eternity.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if all else fails. Let’s keep thinking.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

With a dozen landlubbers whose only recommendation for the sea was that they had failed on land? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there a loop stuck out, maybe big enough to stick your pinky finger through, pitiful testimony to the challengers who had tried and failed. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because, when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I devised a bizarre and ever-evolving rubric by which I measured his love for me, and when he failed to meet it, I became paranoid. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We lost no opportunity to educate, and I had failed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t been able to talk to Dylan since we found out his sister failed the tryout. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"I beg you the honor of acting in your place. Give this task to me, my lord, and I swear I shall not fail you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Pupo is the head of the army. He was supposed to announce the liberation. It looks like he failed us.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The little man, whose name was Harroway, hesitated, produced an unmistakable blush, failed completely to catch Byerley’s eyes, and muttered, “Come on,” to the two policemen. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

My sprawling house is famous in these parts and never fails to get a reaction. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But his wisdom failed; and I fear that as the peril of his realm grew he looked in the Stone and was deceived: far too often, I guess, since Boromir departed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In this he failed–though he did achieve a certain belated, inadvertent triumph. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Thrice they had tried to take him there, and thrice they had failed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In order for the Republican agenda to win, the Federalist agenda needed to fail. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This was especially troubling for the Nurturers, like Father, who felt they had failed somehow. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Raskolnikov once said: “When reason fails, the devil helps!” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In 1784 Jefferson also proposed a bill in the federal Congress prohibiting slavery in all the western territories; it failed to pass by a single vote. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Harry’s parents had died in Voldemort’s attack, but Harry had escaped with his lightning scar, and somehow — nobody. understood why — Voldemort’s powers had been destroyed the instant he had failed to kill Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When he realized the joke had failed, Toby’s face went hard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There could be remnants of civilizations destroyed by wars or by beasts or by immune systems that failed a sudden bacterial pop quiz. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

To youth and natural cheerfulness like Emma’s, though under temporary gloom at night, the return of day will hardly fail to bring return of spirits. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Al isn’t dead last, but unless the Dauntless-born initiates completely failed their version of stage one of initiation, he is factionless. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She had always had to settle for Miss Trixie at a distance, an unsatisfactory arrangement for carrying out the program outlined in the psychology correspondence course, the final examination of which she had failed resoundingly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had laughed before today—Walter's sense of humor hadn't failed him despite his six years on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You are both cowards. You fight by proxy because you are too cowardly to challenge each other directly. Afraid that you will fail and have nothing to blame except yourselves.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Taran collided with something—what it was, he could not tell—but he clung to it even as his strength failed him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But as to how a prince may recognize such a minister, there is this method that never fails. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He sat with quiet dignity, stone fingers holding tight to the sword across his lap, but in life all swords had failed him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even if he had somehow failed to notice these things, he knew that Cloud Pond was only a mile from Barren Mountain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’s willing to try new things even if he might fail or look like a dork. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And though it would certainly add color to my story to present a descent into a seamy underworld, I can’t fail to mention that the North Beach Strip is only a few blocks long. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Still, the antis claimed that all of those who failed to vote opposed female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The stewards of something uncomfortable, burdensome, which they hated because, living outside the realm of history, there was no one to applaud their value and they themselves failed to understand it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony tried and failed to hold off the western advance, losing forty vessels out of what little was left of his fleet. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He just kept thinking: Don't look at me, and hoped the Romans below would fail to notice the giant bronze trireme descending on their city in the middle of morning rush hour. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had to think of something, and his tongue didn’t fail him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know how the monsters could have failed to spot them already. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The market will collapse or the crops will fail. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t stop these Southerners from working the mines, the strike would fail. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

And truth be known, it failed as often as it succeeded. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I fail to see why you’re amused, ” said the bemused Mr. Peepers, whose missing spectacles were perched on his head. anxious/eager. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing they needed on this quest was paparazzi taking pictures of all Frank’s epic fails. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I had never failed like that before,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I could imagine the splash and jar of angry steel, the leap and struggle until the torn heart failed, and then, not too long later, the shadow of a buzzard, and another. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be much harder for her to fail than to succeed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And then there's one where he fails me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It purports to see black and brown men not as black and brown, but simply as men—raceless men—who have failed miserably to play by the rules the rest of us follow quite naturally. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Will we be disqualified if we fail the test?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This is not the first time I have failed my family since I got here, but for some reason, it feels that way. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His upper canines had never grown in, and the string of holistic dentists my parents had taken him to as a child had failed to notice until it was too late. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He might be running from the law, or maybe a charm had been placed on him, which would explain why every ordinary hex he tried to put on his wife failed to work. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Repeated appeals to the church authorities failed to resolve the situation, but took up time that Kepler might have spent on his planetary work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

That plan failed, but it would not be surprising for Arsinoe to convince Ptolemy XIV to conspire with her against their sister. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Harry Potter died over twenty years ago as part of that failed coup on the school—he was one of those Dumbledore terrorists we bravely overthrew at the Battle of Hogwarts. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She tried—and failed—to smile at him, and she was slowly led to the door. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I felt as though something in nature had failed, like the sun, or the stars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a shame we can’t just admit that we have failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Moody had failed a pop quiz on Jane Eyre and had stayed after to retake it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their efforts failed, and Judge Cox’s sentence stood. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

People say a failed attempt is a cry for help. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When enough careful writers and speakers fail to do something that a pencil-and-paper analysis of syntax says they should, it may mean that it’s the pencil-and-paper analysis that is wrong, not the speakers and writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “It was horrible. Horrible. I totally failed them, even after I promised it would work out in the end. So why—” His voice caught. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Mr. Neck still gives tests, and most of us fail them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

After Congress failed to pass the amendment, Alice Paul turned up the heat on her campaign and changed her tactics yet again. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I rushed home from school, to the church, to the altar, to be alone there, to commune with Jesus, my dearest Friend, who would never fail me, who knew all the secrets of my heart. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I was definitely going to fail my math final. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the second, Tom Deckard, the other American, failed to qualify. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They felt their knees fail, and their hearts—but heard Eurymakhos for the last time rallying them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she had failed to make it to the second day of competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The princes’ efforts to breed cheetahs in captivity failed, and not until 1960 did even biologists in modern zoos achieve their first successful cheetah birth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, what Tim had failed to tell me was that he’d told these people he was bringing a famous rapper from America to come and rap in their talent show. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

None of us wanted anything further to do with Mr. Kendall, who would be furious if he learned that we had found what he had failed to find. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Although Prohibition ultimately failed and was repealed, Sunday refused to give up the fight against alcohol, calling for the reintroduction of the Prohibition amendment. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had uttered those words to Mr. Pirzada, two simple words I had tried but failed to tell him for weeks, had said only in my prayers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Eurasia and Mesoamerica developed indigenous writing, which failed to emerge in Polynesia, except perhaps on Easter Island, whose mysterious script may however have postdated the islanders’ contact with Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If skill failed, he would resort to cunning. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

So far, it was one of the few things that had never really failed them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the fair failed, Burnham knew, the nation’s honor would be tarnished, Chicago humiliated, and his own firm dealt a crushing blow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In one evening, he had had his first real argument with Silas, had attempted to run away from home, had failed to run away, and now failed to return home. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As the kidneys fail, the blood becomes toxic with urine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yet to the Harlond we must come tomorrow or fail utterly.” The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once you said to me, Test me, I will not fail you. I test you now. Do not fail me, my love.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“My arm fails me,” he was said to have announced. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He shook his shoulders as if shaking off a tiresome touch, and attempted a smile that failed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It cheered when the exposition orchestra played “Home Sweet Home,” a song that never failed to reduce grown men and women to tears, especially the newest arrivals to the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Didn’t he know that the First and Second Expeditions had failed, had vanished; the men were probably dead? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A prying charm will be met with a stronger charm, subtle devices will fail, devious inquiries will be deviously thwarted, and force will be turned ruinously back upon itself. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He would not fail his son, not whilst life remained in his body. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, as we told her, in the event that the experiment failed, we couldn’t send you back to the bakery or to that room where you came from.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But the Chief Elder said that they had made a selection before, and that it failed. What was she talking about?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet here it was, in black and white, the possibility that I might have failed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It says a great deal about how enamored I was with the Archives that I failed to notice one of the most attractive women in the University standing less than six inches away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, by not being dependent on any single kind of food, they were less liable to suffer when one particular food source failed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had failed in all he had meant to do. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only one demigod would make a boat like that, and he’d moored it as far out in the harbor as possible, where the Argo II couldn’t fail to spot it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We knew we needed to show Mama utmost respect—showing Mama disrespect always, without fail, meant severe punishment. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded her head to let him know that he should answer her by nodding his head if words failed him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The thought of him—and his accusation against the Republic, that the Republic creates the plagues, kills kids who fail the Trial—fills me with rage. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She’d watched as others gained glory...or failed and didn’t come back. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What if my brain fails me once again? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s not that the pilot has to negotiate some critical technical maneuver and fails. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Twice a pair of boys on the starboard side failed to make clean releases from the water, and each time it happened it broke their rhythm and slowed them down. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Though Arya never spoke to any of them, they could not fail to see her bruises. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The student had failed to hand in her homework on time, and Teacher Li had told her to copy the assignment over five times as punishment. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They failed to detect the deadly cargo, coiled sleeping at the bottom of the basket. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But they failed to penetrate the antique armor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t really spoken since my total epic fail at the protest. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But when she was in the little room, which contained nothing but a sink and a bucket, her courage almost failed her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For instance, Raoul’s much ado about nothing comes by way of his father, a failed Shakespearean actor who gave up the dream and started a theater camp for underprivileged children. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Obviously,” he added, “I was told to cancel further testing, as I’m now doing. If it failed once there’s no point in going on.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, they worked in such reckless haste that they often failed to note that a new discovery was something already known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The drawing for colors for the first game didn’t take place during the opening ceremonies, which failed to develop strictly according to schedule. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was why she failed to recognize the swarthy, awkward, slow- moving young man with the cruel eyes of a rodent who knocked one afternoon at the door of the big house on the comer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cardan looks over, and I can tell from his expression that she has failed to please him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jam could smell the saltfish buljol he was making, and as they heard her enter, they both turned and smiled in a way that was designed to hide their worry but failed terribly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She never failed to follow his orders, quivering when he raised his voice, apologizing when he screamed at her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“No. I believe it. I know that you will fail. There is something in the universe—I don’t know, some spirit, some principle—that you will never overcome.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

You won't believe in my invisibility and you'll fail to see how any principle that applies to you could apply to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished still to cry, and attempted it again; and once again, my effort failed, all tears occluded. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We didn’t want that to happen anywhere near our electronic equipment, because the moisture might cause short circuits, which in turn would cause our radios to fail. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a stroke of good luck for Booth, for unknown reasons Samuel Mudd’s cousin George failed to ride into town to report the strangers to the cavalry. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had willed and worked her way to her performance by reminding herself that theater was what she did not fail at—it was where she excelled. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But it was very different with her father; he was—and so Elizabeth never failed to think of him—young, and handsome, and kind, and generous; and he loved his daughter. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

If her silent giant failed her, it might be the last kiss she would ever know. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When this fails— think the patrician George H. W. Bush’s claimed affinity for pork rinds, or any Democratic candidate at an NRA meeting—the result is often highly comical, if not cringe-inducing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

How could he fail to recognize the actor’s familiar, thick black hair, pale complexion, trademark mustache, and striking good looks? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He squirmed out of the boy’s arms to inspect his human more carefully, alarmed that he could have failed to notice an injury, although his sense of smell was never wrong. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For Ulbrickson, there was one overriding, and dark, fact to be confronted: he had failed again to make good on his public promises. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

White realized that the greatest problem with the earlier investigations was not that agents had failed to uncover any leads; it was that there were too many. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I need to find something kind to say, something instead of these thoughts of how Gramps failed me, how Jones failed us. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

‘This time you have nearly succeeded, but you have failed again. It was not Sam, though, that gave you away this time, but Gandalf himself!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I watched as he tried and failed to wedge his knife tightly enough to cut his roast. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Only what the mind insists upon, and if Lazlo’s and Sarai’s minds insisted, it was not because their bodies failed to present a compelling argument. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Only two of the Freys had stirred, Tyrion noted, and they'd sat back down quick enough when their captain failed to move. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I failed to agree with her braying and babbling, she told me that I was obviously anti-Semitic. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The measure failed, but the vote was a small victory in its own right. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There is a strong general tendency to filter out the bad and the failed and to focus on the good and the successful. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are they giving letter grades on the subject of me, or is it pass/fail? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

‘It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed that people failed to meet my eye, made as if to walk through me; my superstitions began to transform themselves into something like mania. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Whenever my parents talked about bombings or death or sex or politics, they routinely, without fail, asked us children to leave the room. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the teen’s smug expression dropped, as if all the muscles that held up his face failed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“He has failed badly today, and there is so little of him left I believe I could pick him up with one hand.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Generations of students had failed to find the diadem; that suggested that it was not in Ravenclaw Tower—but if not there, where? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For these he was still very punctual as a rule, and he seldom failed to wake up in time for them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But I always somehow failed to get onto the page what I thought and felt. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, I should have thought the natural successor to the job, once Draco fails, is yourself?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“This is not your fault. We failed you.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And if this experiment of ours fails, we have also embedded a way to escape it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My lights failed to penetrate to the edges of the room, and the edges descended downward into darkness on all sides. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet there was one area in which she failed to exert any influence on me: religion. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d do whatever it took, but he was not going to fail. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment, his insouciant swagger fails him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was always charming and cordial, but there were times when even these traits failed to put his business associates at ease. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If any of them fail, I’m going to say, ‘Nope, get rid of her!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

What captain would fail in so elementary a way to ensure the safety of his crew? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the word went out that the entire camp would close without fail by December 1. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

So his textbook spread failed to penetrate the skull, in spite of the Teflon-coated load. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Rising to my full height—a spectacle in itself—I looked down upon the offending policeman and crushed him with a comment which, fortunately, he failed to understand. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed be the final irony. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wet and betrayed his anguish, “Test me, Hamlet! I would not fail you.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Revenants from forgotten wars, lost causes, failed rebellions, a brotherhood of the failed and the fallen, the disgraced and the disinherited. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And it does sound as if you were brave, Scorpius, and you, Albus, but the lesson even your father sometimes failed to heed is that bravery doesn’t forgive stupidity. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

‘If we don’t, I want you to know -1 feel bad about Calypso. I failed her.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

‘That is ill news indeed. We shall all rue it bitterly, I fear. How came the folk of Thranduil to fail in their trust?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now I’ve lost everything: the companionship of his ideals, and the secret escape I held in reserve, if my own failed completely. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried not to sound evasive, but I’m pretty sure I failed miserably. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was funny, and for the rest of the trip they tried to get me back for what I had done, but they failed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In August, he tripped a Bouncing Betty, which failed to detonate. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Omakayas tried to think she had won, that she had outwitted Old Tallow and made her impatient, as even the wariest animals often failed to do. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

That’s why I al-ways hated turning my essays in, because the teacher would look at me as if he knew that I was going to fail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to fail. All I studied was the new stuff.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Badwa wouldn't be there to encourage her when she failed, or chastise her when she overextended herself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We have not failed. We are doing the best we can.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She kissed our father on his cheek, a gesture that never failed to embarrass me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, physicists tend to look down on evolutionary biology and history, because those fields appear to fail this test. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a couple of months after we’d found out that the IVF had failed that he told me about the trip. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goebbels himself—a failed novelist and playwright earlier in life—had taken to reviewing the scripts of nearly all films personally, using a green pencil to strike out or rewrite offending lines or scenes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Your predecessors failed to protect the Washington family, at great cost. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ending her day in Scenes from Darkest Africa never failed to cast her into a river of calm, the simple theater becoming more than theater, a genuine refuge. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He thinks he has failed in the real world, although he once created a famous illustration for canned pork and beans that I can remember from childhood. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man squinting up at them from the pit was so thin and weak, his attempt to stand failed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was the failed business with Gil, of course, and her father’s short leash. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was so steady and unchanging that he had failed to notice it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then he had failed to stop a giant shrimp attack on the Argo II. Then the ichthyocentaurs, Chiron’s brothers, hadn’t even wanted to meet him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday a large bank failed in Kansas City. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It’s becoming very clear: This is a failed mission. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

ATTN: will be wearing a burgundy velvet suit tonight, please do not attempt to steal my shine, you will fail and i will be embarrassed for you. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Misjudging how far back he was sitting in the chair, his first attempt to rise failed and he slipped back, resting on his side. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had tried everything they could think of to get me back and failed. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Because they failed to complete initiation into whatever faction they chose, they live in poverty, doing the work no one else wants to do. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Soon, Kate, very soon. There remains one more test, but after that, whether you pass or fail, I promise you all a good supper. Fair enough?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy let out his breath with a gasp, reached for it again and failed. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It...it wasn’t good. She didn’t seem like herself. Maybe it’s the Greek/Roman schizophrenia that Nemesis described. I’m not sure. She said some hurtful things. She said I had failed her.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You must be mistaken. He’s a good Muslim boy. He comes without fail to Friday prayer, and his knowledge of the Holy Qur’an is coming along nicely.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the mission had totally and completely failed, their words made me hopeful. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The wind had been turning through north to north-west during the night, and now it failed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The French emperor’s grand plan failed, but he was resourceful. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She failed to catch the sarcasm of this. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then, if he missed, or failed to kill the president, he would turn to his backup weapon, a Rio Grande camp knife, a handsome and extremely sharp type of bowie knife. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For writing exercises, students were instructed to explain how they had failed to work hard and follow rules. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

During a parade in Berlin, the Hitler Youth attacked a visiting American student when he failed to salute their banner. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t need to convince anybody in the Capitol of our love but hold to the slim hope that we can still reach some of those we failed to convince in the districts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at Travis only because I didn’t want to fail this class. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Amaka s letters are often quite as long, and she never fails to write, in every single one, how everybody is growing fat, how Chima “outfats” his clothes in a month. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We might fail to notice the handful of Carolina nightshades or thistles among the other plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It hasn’t failed! We can still go to Manila!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now here l am, called a bit later than most but only because they have finally realized that it takes a man to succeed where boys have failed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He failed—the trail of corpses went on forever it seemed, in every direction. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When they told Lara she failed, she threw an epic temper tantrum so bad she may not be allowed to try out again next year if Agent Fiona has anything to say about it. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“This here’s the Box. Once a month, we get a Newbie like you, never fails. Once a week, we get supplies, clothes, some food. Ain’t needin’ a lot—pretty much run ourselves in the Glade.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I tried not to be disappointed, and failed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And the last line—I would fail to save what mattered most. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘At last you have admitted that you failed to clean my study properly. I shall therefore see all three of you in the changing-room tonight after prayers.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the main reasons it failed was because the federal government never allotted anywhere near enough resources to make it work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“All resources for these seem to have failed and the want of them will be serious in its result.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“She’s mad at herself for trusting us with something so precious. We all failed her, not just you.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You too, Ben, my pugilist son whom I have failed to raise as a gentleman.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, don’t speak too soon. I could still fail English.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The cat-o’-nine-tails biting into his mother’s back when she failed to keep the pace with her sack. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In his first interview, he tried to protect me from the Capitol and rebels alike, and not only have I failed to protect him, I’ve brought down more horrors upon him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There would probably be toothaches and failed math tests. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century efforts to find a new route failed over and over again. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Bush could not fail to be impressed by DuBridge’s instantaneous assent and what it indicated about Lawrence’s standing in the scientific community. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Grandmother laughed and said, ‘What makes you think you’ll succeed when everyone else fails?’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the rains failed or clouds of locusts arrived or if a fungus infected that staple species, peasants died by the thousands and millions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the hungry and worn, who had far to go before life failed, it had an evil look. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“All right, I’ll accept your offer, but you have to get it done by sunset. If you fail, your friends get sold, and I get rich.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The matricu- lation exams had come out, and my name wasn’t in the paper, which could mean only one thing: I had failed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Booth drifted off to sleep, he did not know whether his master plan had succeeded or failed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray like the others surrounding it except for the roses my mother planted around its border just before I was born; they still bloomed each spring around this time, without fail. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Tell me,” he finally commanded after persuasion failed — failed only because I kept my eyes safely away from his face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His entire body seemed tensed, and she didn’t fail to notice the way he clenched his jaw when Perrington spoke. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The most visible sign of the failed system is the astonishingly large caseloads public defenders routinely carry, making it impossible for them to provide meaningful representation to their clients. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Because if that’s the case, you should get out now. If you are really one of us, it won’t matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The attack failed. We’re tracking the suspect. No need to panic the crowds.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

These diseases must have been the evolutionary survivors of far more pathogens that tried to make the jump to us from animals—and mostly failed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ned fought to keep the scorn out of his voice, and failed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Madame Zeroni warned that if he failed to do this, he and his descendants would be doomed for all of eternity. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He had tried everything in the book to get rid of vampires, and all his efforts had failed. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would have to succeed where the cleverest demigod of all time had failed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her face was lifted to his; her eyes were empty, eyes that looked upward when the last hope of earth had failed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d failed to appreciate the grip climbing had on my soul, however, or the purpose it lent to my otherwise rudderless life. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For it would seem that a certain category of exceptions never failed to make the world worse—that category, precisely, for whom power is more real than love. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He is intrigued by this correlation but, like the “Moratorium” author, fails to see the direction in which the correlation runs. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Lazear’s early attempts to show that mosquitoes could transmit the disease from a sick person to a healthy one failed in all but one case. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I know you think you failed me, but this...this shouldn’t be your penance, Jake. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to let you know you failed your English test big- time. You’re about a hair from failing the course. I just wanted to warn you.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of the organ was a last desperate attempt to win the hand of Cousin Antonieta after more conventional means of courting her had failed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nay, he appeared so much otherwise, that his daughter’s courage failed. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He came without fail every noontime, from his little basement restaurant up near the Polo Grounds; the joke was he never lasted more than two minutes... but he always left twenty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Daito failed to deactivate the Beta Capsule and return to human form before his three minutes were up, his avatar would die. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On the Randall plantation, the doctor was only called when the slave remedies, the roots and salves, had failed and a valued hand was near death. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I hate that I’ve lost my looks and failed school and quit sports and am cruel to my mother. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

"Mya's a clever girl, and if she yows she will bring you safely to the Lady Lysa, I believe her. She has not failed me yet." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To take on such edgy and controversial material and fail would surely be far worse than presenting a production of Beauty and the Beast that falls just a little flat. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He knew it would be hard to find even if it lived inside Kitum Cave, but he felt he was getting too close to fail in his quest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Triple Alliance was subjugated, in other words, because its people had failed to recognize the One True God. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One thing he failed to see was that if a neutron star shrank enough it would become so dense that even light couldn’t escape its immense gravitational pull. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder how much they can stand before they fail. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But, after Gilbert, work on the magnet failed to discover the regularities that make experimental knowledge possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nor can we leave success out of the history of parliamentary democracy or the novel; but democracies sometimes fail, and sometimes the novels get worse not better. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He knows Ma and the girls’ eyes are still upon him, baring down on his back, but he must not turn to look at them lest his courage fail him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

News of the failed crop came in, and sitting in the coffeehouse, the boys had watched the prices on the chalkboard rise, trying to contain their glee. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wasn't all that surprised that I'd failed my most recent etiquette examination. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“When I said you would fail, I was trying to scare you. I didn’t want you to go to Blackcliff.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Driving back to Los Alamos that night, the Serbers knew their mission had failed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the evacuation failed and the ports were bombed, more than half a million people would die. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When they failed to satisfy, you brought in Italians or Poles or Hungarians. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

About three o’clock of that day, I broke down; my strength failed me; I was seized with a violent aching of the head, attended with extreme dizziness; I trembled in every limb. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of summer his busy schedule and the stifling heat caused his health to fail once again and reactivated his insomnia. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This was why teachers passed him when he should have failed, and why the gym teachers let him wear whatever he wanted to gym. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Upon our return, I told Mr. Heminges that we had failed to find Nick. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I fail to understand,” he said, “why it would take six months for someone to inform me of that simple fact.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise the dust billowed like sand over Khartoum and sifted deep into her scalp, where even a good brushing failed to dislodge it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Having failed to achieve her goal, Mrs. van D. is obliged to change tactics. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And all of the ballyhooed techniques used by the armies of market researchers at CBS utterly failed to distinguish between these two very different emotions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The Soviets stated that she lived up to a week before the sensors failed. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why had the power of God failed to cure my uncle? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He allegedly arranged for an appeals court to be bribed, and when these efforts failed to win him freedom, he boasted, as the evaluator noted, of “his probable release through influence of friends.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Researchers found that in the instances where the woman was denied an abortion, she often resented her baby and failed to provide it with a good home. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, it was an officer’s fault: The gallery officer might have failed to find the inmate and then forgotten to follow up, or someone might have forgotten to notify the gallery officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown, or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was a perpetual smile in his eyes, which seldom failed to awaken a corresponding cheerfulness in any one who looked into them and listened to his good- humored voice. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could she fail to pray that He would have mercy on her son, and spare him the sin-born anguish of his father and his mother. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Percy Weasley was sitting at the judges’ table — Mr. Crouch had failed to turn up again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Take Charms,” said Professor McGonagall, “and I shall drop Augusta a line reminding her that just because she failed her Charms O.W.L., the subject is not necessarily worthless.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Yet again, I am reminded of how my generation has failed to instill in our children what is truly possible. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“About your mark: You haven’t turned in work this term. I should have failed you. But at the last moment, I decided to pass you so that you could graduate with your class.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t do anything to the bishop except threaten that if he failed to deliver their message they would come for him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Although he did not go to jail for choking the newspaper reporter, he was forced to take a class called “How to Manage Your Anger,” which he failed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Henry’s frown disappeared completely, and he tried and failed to hide a smile before turning to follow the two women, who were already climbing the hill. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"Madam Minister, let me express my sincerest apologies. Protecting Camellia is my responsibility. I failed you and my queen." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“From what he told me,” I said, “it never fails.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after they returned home from the failed mission, on a Sunday, Reggie went to church. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It read: “Although the Bears failed to overtake the veteran Husky varsity ... in that last heartbreaking drive they proved that they were headed for the Olympic Games of 1936.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had obtained A’s and B’s in all the other subjects, but because I had failed Tsonga, which carried more weight, I had failed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many before him had tried and failed to decipher the lovely hieroglyphics, a word that means “sacred carvings.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But... I don’t have a toothache . . .” “After your meal. Without fail.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She failed in cheerleading. Surely you can do something about that?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Brahmagupta tried to figure out what 0 + 0 and 1 + 0 were, and failed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t abandon you; they couldn’t fail you. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I'm not going to put myself on the spot for having failed. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The children’s plan was bold, ill-formed, and likely to fail, and all of them knew it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Did I fail to hear you knock?” she asked, staring so angrily that Meggie had to summon up all her courage not to turn around and slip quickly back out into the hallway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Except that a robot might fail due to the inherent inadequacies of his brain. The positronic brain has never equalled the complexities of the human brain.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But both failed projects were also visionary projections linked to larger expectations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I imagined him lying dead in his house, wondered who had found him, how they even knew he was missing before he failed to show up for class. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

For if you fail, then we are laid bare to the Enemy. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She shrugged away the hands of the guards, leaned forward, and whispered harshly to Kira, “You will fail. Then they will kill you.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If these students didn’t get help and find a way to succeed in school, they would fail out or simply get too old for high school, at which point they would be on their own. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At sunset I try to hypnotise her, but alas! with no effect; the power has grown less and less with each day, and to-night it fail me altogether. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I jab at her, yet the pitchfork fails to do the job. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When princes failed to repay the Iron Bank, new princes sprang up from nowhere and took their thrones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He has moist red lips; pale, almost translucent cheeks like fillets of raw sole; and an instinct for correctness that rarely fails him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Something that even Pong had failed to observe those four years ago, when the Governor had been only inches away. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When he failed to find the wheel, he moved over six inches, and searched again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the zeros of the universe, logic fails. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They weren’t the ones who artificially jacked up their scores; they probably expected to do great in the seventh grade—and then they failed miserably. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Her stomach never failed to rumble at the sight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I fail to understand,” said Father, who understands everything, “why you would have a poor dumb creature condemn us all to eternal suffering.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Collingwood was so sure that the Renaissance thought of nature as a machine that he failed to notice that he had produced no evidence to support his claim. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to be afraid to fail or succeed in my class. Does that make sense?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Monet failed to show up for work, his colleagues began to wonder about him, and eventually they went to his bungalow to see if he was all right. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have failed in the task you set me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

According to McGrayne, as late as February 2001 Ethyl continued to contend "that research has failed to show that leaded gasoline poses a threat to human health or the environment." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In all the days that she was growing up, signs failed not, but none heeded. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry, Maman. I'm sorry I failed. I didn't work hard enough." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I think back to the day I took my Trial, when John came to pick me up and saw me being taken away in a train with others who had failed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Victory and Joe exchanged looks, but it was Joe’s flesh that cooled and his throat that tried and failed to swallow. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a contestant reached the $8,000 plateau and failed to answer that question correctly, he or she was given a new Cadillac as a consolation prize, worth about $5,000 at that time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“People spend lifetimes breaking their stick to get rid of anger. But always anger remains, and they think they’ve failed.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And then there were the seats left dirty or wet by previous inhabitants that the kitchen workers had failed to wipe clean. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You'll fail to see it even though death waits for both of us if you don't. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tang people at home had tried to boycott demon goods until the demons stopped persecuting the Tang people over here in the Land of the Golden Mountain, but it had failed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a lovely singing voice and a gallant habit of carrying pins in his pant cuffs, in case his dance partner’s dress strap failed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

If the government failed to call such a convention, we would call a countrywide three-day stay-away beginning on May 29 to coincide with the declaration of South Africa as a republic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d borne him what his first two wives had failed to, a son at last. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The electricity fails for an hour: it’s the diamond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She played because she had disappointed her parents and failed her siblings. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If my experiment failed, and the drunken hamster passed out, I'd just put her in the deep freeze, alongside the slugs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The mulefa had told her that the sraf, which had nurtured their lives and their world for thirty-three thousand years, had begun to fail just over three hundred years ago. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Which makes me think of the holiday concert and my slide fail and the locked closet, and I blink hard to make the memories stop. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She counted the weeks by marking them off on a calendar, but she failed to take into consideration that four months had passed before she began her calculations. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She looked so young at that moment, so confused and vulnerable and lonely, and this, more than anything, made Mia feel she’d failed her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the administration said, “If you don’t give these students grades, they will all fail,” Morrie had a solution: “Let’s give them all A’s.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those efforts failed because of the Spaniards’ far superior armament. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he did not lie, because he was scared that he would fail at lying and would eventually have to tell her the truth and that way make it all doubly damaging. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If a student takes four courses and gets A’s in two but fails the other two, he receives a GPA of 2.0, or a C average. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

So she could tell him that they were doing something wrong, that they were going to fail. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And who failed math? Who do you come to for help with your math homework even though you’re a grade ahead?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a way of surviving, and it was a preview of what her life would be if their plan failed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I am here because they fail, they have already failed, they will fail some more.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t believe they were faithless, but sincerity failed to give them substance, and they were swept away by other, stronger currents. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But just like their open flame, they have failed to consider the consequences. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

These heroes go largely unnoticed by politicians who prefer to blame those who fail, rather than praise with admiration and awe all those who somehow manage, despite seemingly insurmountable hurdles, to survive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Your letter to her, and this, her answer to you, failed in their objectives. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beaten with whips if they fell, beaten if they failed to keep the pace, they headed slowly away from everything they had once known. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kidnap plot failed because on the night it was to happen Arnold loaded his American Legion, including Champe, on board a transport and sailed to Virginia, where he attacked Richmond. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had proved that by finding Tormund where seasoned rangers of the Watch had failed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this time, when you fail, you’ll wonder if it’s worthwhile slaving for the gods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t shake the feeling that the weasel was anxious to watch her fail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“When the new Receiver failed, the memories that she had received were released. They didn’t come back to me. They went...” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The country that experiments on and kills children who fail the Trial. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But in what I knew to be the context of our conversation it meant, “I have failed you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Trina's father, Walter Garnett, was a former boxer whose failed career had turned him into a violent, abusive alcoholic well known to local police for throwing a punch with little provocation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While the terminology is well intentioned, it utterly fails to convey the gravity of the situation facing people upon their release from prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To them it seems as though Vincent is pursuing another path that will inevitably fail. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It would probably be a mistake, however, to conclude thereby that McCandless failed to appreciate the beauty of the country around him, that he was unmoved by the power of the landscape. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If zero were nothing, the student could claim that the grades for the courses he failed did not exist, and demand a 4.0 average. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You failed to mention Indochinese casualties, or refugees, or bombing tonnages, which in fact are trending up,” he said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When meaningful change fails to materialize following the achievement of superficial diversity, those who remain locked out can become extremely discouraged and demoralized, resulting in cynicism and resignation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For the people, it was that simple, and when they failed, the humiliation fell on all of them; what happened to the girl did not happen to her alone, it happened to all of them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But where Fermi had succeeded, Heisenberg had failed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether Goll lied about sending the alarms or whether the alarm box failed to work will never be known. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The RPGs we had failed to explode when they were fired. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

For understandable reasons, it would fail to meet that deadline. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baker’s face was pinched when we came back into the class—the disappointment of a failed assassination plot. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Einstein also failed to live long enough to see that he had backed the wrong horse. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I have never seen him. Others have sought him and failed. We should have only faint hope. But that is better than none at all.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

As Ernest could not fail to recognize, much of the physics community was lined up behind Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t gone to such lengths to kidnap Miss Peregrine only to give up after one failed attempt. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Instead he had failed miserably, had choked up once again in the face of opposition from a stronger personality. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Only idiots aren’t scared of things that are scary,” Taryn says, which is undoubtedly true, but still fails to dissuade me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I failed the math final if it’s any consolation. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’d failed to make the national team five years before, it had forced me to commit myself to becoming a better gymnast. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He may have simply failed to recall it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was ticking past horses one by one, watching them waver and fail as his colt powered by. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called him by his first name and could persuade him to do things when other officers failed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And that if I fail now, I might get very angry. And if she stops breathing in the very near future, it is entirely possible that you will catch the same fatal illness?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Bas would announce that we were all going to Koco's, and that he would personally fail the test to help the grading curve for the people who were so concerned with studying. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She could accept death if she had to, but if the Athena Parthenos was destroyed their quest would fail. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mathis, the Big Hill Trading Company owner and the guardian of Anna Brown and her mother, was a member of the inquest into Brown’s murder that failed to turn up the bullet. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nights when he failed to get up, he paid the price by having to start a new fire from scratch while he shivered in his underwear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I’m still around, but from here on in, for reasons I’m not at liberty to disclose, I’ve disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

You find in your Western civilization that when a man’s wife’s physical beauty fails, she loses her attraction. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was little she always caught me, but as I got older I got faster, and when speed failed her she’d use her wits. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I wanted to do well, but no matter how many great answers I had in my head, if I couldn’t spell words right, I was going to fail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hed hoped but failed to “boil them down” to fighting trim by now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Both Haldeman and Henry seem to have an idea—which I think is mistaken—that even if we fail in Vietnam we can still survive politically,” the president wrote in his diary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There are off-hour trips to silent museums, where the boy tries and fails to walk through galleries as quietly as his instructor does, cringing when each footfall echoes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But as the day wore on and all too soon the dim light began to fail, Frodo stooped again, and began to stagger, as if the renewed effort had squandered his remaining strength. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And here we all are, five centuries later, masked just like Taius the First, waiting for the old devils line to fail so one of us can become the shiny new Emperor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And as I turned to go, he never failed to say, “Be careful.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He failed, however, to produce much in the way of evidence, and the theory was considered too crackpot to merit serious attention. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She knew when Trip had failed a math test by the shredded scraps in his trash bin, when Moody had been writing songs by the crumpled wads of paper in his. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“One shall be lost. One shall perish. That sounds rather nasty, doesn’t it? What if you fail because you try to cooperate?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Every day more and more city officials failed to show up at work: judges and clerks, aldermen and secretaries. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The Army had failed to fight them, and thousands were already dead. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The revolution in the old country had failed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In other words, science evolves, and it does so because theories that fail to develop, or that are unable to adapt in the face of new discoveries, are eliminated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever escaped detection, and nobody ever failed to confess. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When their talk touched on matters of state, it was in low tones, for the king never failed in his discretion. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Wistar failed completely to recognize the bone’s significance and merely made a few cautious and uninspired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As a result, by the time Jefferson had arrived in New York in March, sixteen possible sites had been proposed but had failed to muster a majority. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realise. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And finally you,” he said fiercely to Teenie, “I trusted to obey me. Your responsibility was to me and you failed.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another irony he failed to appreciate: His struggle to mold me in his image had been successful after all. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never fails. But you only want to use it if you don’t mind being brought to the doctor.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He did not need to tell the Convocation he had failed. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“If you fail, they send you a thick envelope so that you can reregister.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the market fails to distribute some vital commodity, such as housing, to all who require it, the usual liberal-to- moderate expectation is that the government will step in and help. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two climbers failed to return to their tent that night, however, and neither Mallory nor Irvine was ever seen again. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, despite his powers of anticipation, Burnham failed to realize that Chicago might see his choices as betrayal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her interests broadened and she listened intently to the radio, captivated by the political and financial stories, which failed to engage me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I make another leap and fail again, my fingers slipping once more. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What happens when those lungs start to fail? I’m right back to square one.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It seems Principal Wertz called my mother when I failed to come back for the rest of third period, or show up for my fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-period classes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

While I didn’t fault anyone for the confusion, as someone who had failed to qualify, it was a painful reminder every time I had to correct someone to say, “Sorry, I’m not an Olympian.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That was pretty comforting, because I didn’t want to fail all of my finals after the massive makeup effort I had done before my flu episode, and Annette always got A’s in everything. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to believe Mrs. Walton, but I can feel Beatriz’s ghostly presence hovering over me, waiting for me to fail. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

My kidneys and lungs began to fail, and soon I was near death. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If all else failed, I had another drill. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stench of exertion, failed bladders, and most of all, fear, stunk worse than any livestock. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And if he fails, the deal is sealed. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the Interzonal and Candidates’ tournaments began as eliminating contests for the World’s Championship in 1948, the Soviet grandmasters failed to capture first prize. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when Maurice failed to disengage himself immediately, I feared that out of politeness he would ask Rosy to join us for tea. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The recipe was guaranteed not to fail by the company which made the shortening. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With your help, I will not fail. Ophelia, promise me your aid!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As he looked through the old manuscripts, he wondered why he had failed to send any of them off, for each was excellent in its own way. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I wanted to do was create a world to replace the one that I felt had failed me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As one private eye put it, he might be a “miserable snake,” but he was also “the silent, secret, and effective Avenger of the outraged Majesty of the Law when everything else fails.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Instead of saying “Not on your street roller coaster” or “Yeah. No way, Jose,” my sisters’ voices failed to come to my rescue. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My backpack was totally unsalvageable: With the seam blown out, the straps had failed as well. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He subsequently published the story after deciding that Jefferson had failed to pay him adequately for his hatchet job on Adams. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“If the glamor fails, they will kill you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You will fail to save what matters most in the end. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When they failed to find their man, this half of the crowd moved off in search of others on their “death list.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The patrolman failed to notice he was being summoned. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pendulum having failed, she went out to look for her by carriage, hoping that her instinct would guide her in her search, but that method also was unsuccessful. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so deep in reverie that I failed to hear Kimbro approach. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It never fails; she always uses me as the “good” example. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the survival man­ual failed to mention that a turtle caught was not a turtle had. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The condition she’d fallen into as proof of her despair had failed. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But after landing, the spacecraft returned a twenty-second fragment of a featureless television picture to Earth and then mysteriously failed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mission fails if she is not found quickly.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

"Certain charges have just been made . . ." "Charges? Have I failed to carry out some directive?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Concrete pilings were poured around the perimeter of the Sixth Borough, but they, too, failed. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me immediately, or I will simply fail you all for the semester.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

However, if you fail, you will be eliminated from the competition.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There was an alarm strobe light on the ceiling that would be triggered if the air system failed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To these people, capitalism had failed, and ordinary Americans were bearing the brunt of its collapse. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I have so far failed to uncover that fact.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said the autumn never failed to amaze her; to elate. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We failed in our last selection,” the Chief Elder said solemnly. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t fail. You tried! Amelia, that makes me so proud,” Mom says, pulling me into a crushing embrace. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

If both rovers fail, problem is likely with Pathfinder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They leapt into the open sky and...failed to fall. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I failed a bunch of times. That’s the absolute truth. I missed some things. And people died.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Something about how he didn’t fail ten thousand times, he just found ten thousand ways that didn’t work. Or took ten thousand steps to success, or something like that.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But her nefarious plot to bore me to death failed again, because The Tempest was even better than The Merchant of Venice. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

These realities suggest—if the past two decades of endless war somehow did not—that the drug war is doomed to fail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the silk sleigh and its passengers failed to return? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The runs all failed; Mandela lost control of the ball once, and twice it was stolen by Santos defenders. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He is kicking himself for coming so close only to fail, when there is a tap on his shoulder. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every Monday, without fail, they walked in rain, heat, or humidity to La Cocina to have lunch and get their week started. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“But the other two failed their final test and were dismissed.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Toby might have failed at being a father once, he thought as Cady headed back to the kitchen, but there was no way he was going to fail again. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When that failed to elicit a response, the voices of young children pleaded for help. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But the Augurs, considered holy even then, saw in their visions that Taius’s line would one day fail. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I failed he was always severe, insisting I try over and over again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then right in front of her, the thing happened, the coordination failed, the hands fumbled, the muscles panicked, the nerves telegraphed to a dead operator, the responses did not come back. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the sterile wonders of movies and television and radio will fail to wipe it out—a living man in communication with a living audience. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We shall fall in battle valiantly. Yet there is still hope that they will not fail.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She kept apologizing to me, saying she failed me as a mother and provider. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I trip and fail against him."I need the bathroom,"I whisper, my voice hoarse. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Lamb may have failed to find this clot because of changes caused by the embalming process. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This phrasing of the question seemed to set off a series of weak and distant lights where the other had thrown a spark that failed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His attempts failed, however, and senators supported Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were aware of no significant anomalies where their theories failed to correspond to reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He understood that his influence was not limitless, and if he made a move that failed to conform to journalistic expectations, the image that he had painstakingly cultivated could be ruined. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You once told me that your parents failed you. Do you remember?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I have tried to be better than them, and I have failed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We smile at expressions like these out of relief, because were braced for the numbing cliche that fails to arrive. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the many ways to fail on a dating website, not posting a photo of yourself is perhaps the most certain. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Another fifteen minutes’ fiddling by Francis failed to find anything wrong, though for brief intervals my stomach felt uneasy when I saw him frowning. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Or what if it was something ordinary, a common crisis, and she panicked, froze, failed to stop the hemorrhage in time? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“All efforts to save me from you will fail,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Despite all his wiles, Moose failed to sway the professor. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when she said she failed everyone, I knew whom she meant. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A quick glance around the car failed to reveal anything amiss. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If it failed, the reserve parachute that was strapped to my belly like a baby kangaroo would be my last hope. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last year the freezers failed so there was no ice for”—the wind went out of my sails as I realized how lame this was going to sound—“the sushi bar.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

He would gladly have killed the red woman for that, yet what chance would-he have where a maester of the Citadel had failed? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I continued teaching six-, seven- and eight-year-olds the little I knew about tennis, with the hope that they might someday succeed where I had failed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she failed, she rolled her eyes and leaned back into the bed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At the Courthouse, Schaffer and Brown would hear Dorsey’s alarm, but, assuming it was simply another signal telling them about the original fire, they failed to call out more engines. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or, describing a sunset from Daniel Deronda, he failed to notice the one that was presently falling over Michigan. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The meals provided by Min’s wife were simple, but they never failed to delight his friend, who opened the gourd parcel each evening as if it were a gift of royal jewels. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Her knees failed, and her heart failed as she listened to the words, and all her power of speech went out of her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this most essential way, she had failed him—seven times she had failed him—and now she was nothing but a burden to him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

With the Aeron, the effort to collect consumers’ first impressions failed for a slightly different reason: the people reporting their first impressions misinterpreted their own feelings. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Making your third grader go for a spray tan instead of playing in the park just so Mom can outsource her failed dreams to her kid? So wrong.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He wondered if his talents had failed him, if he had, in trying to compensate for months of undertraining, thrown too much work at his horse at once. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been making high marks and now I made low ones and finally began to fail altogether. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't believe I'd come this far, lost Tyson, suffered through so much, only to fail—stopped by a big stupid monster in a baby-blue tuxedo kilt. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her lilting accent never fails to capture the music of the language. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

As the third day of their voyage wore on the lands changed slowly: the trees thinned and then failed altogether. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But if the children failed to make a good impression at the party, might that change? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

If the conscience of the Scythedom fails, replaced by the avarice of privilege, we could become our own worst enemy again. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The old king had tried to control the water and the people with force, a method that was eventually doomed to fail. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’m so fixed on the scene that I have failed to realize what’s going on in the house. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You will fail,” his father called after him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He failed because his detection apparatus was not capable of sensing neutrons and positrons—that was an understandable oversight, for neither particle yet had been discovered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? I failed my Trial.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for Napoleon, his plan to exclude English products failed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Had the Americas not been in the way, Columbus’ expeditions would have failed utterly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When blacks got close up on it, the gleam of full citizenship failed to shine as brightly as they had hoped. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then she spoke to those whose nerve failed them, whose glance would climb no higher than the long black fingers at her side. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I failed my last exam. I got the result just before you came.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That’s pretty much how it went for Meryl Lee and me until recess, which had become a whole lot safer since Mrs. Baker’s failed assassination plot. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When I once failed to pass an exam in my studies, a few colleagues asked me why, and I responded, to much laughter, “Don Davis!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What we fail to appreciate is that our modern institutions function on exactly the same basis. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another bomb tossed onto Dr. King’s front yard somehow failed to go off. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

So this is what the Republic thinks of children who fail the Trial. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Three years later, after many attempts to remove him from the police department failed, Parker was finally removed for “gross neglect of duty.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“As usual, Mr. Director, you fail to see the whole picture. We could use the show to expose her. Can’t you see it?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Big problem, though. The memory serum virus is in the Weapons Lab. The one Nita just tried—and failed—to break into.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Nurse Cramer was there in the middle suddenly like a spinning policeman, trying desperately to restore order, dissolving helplessly into tears when she failed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Worse still, he had failed to pass the minimum mental faculties test, which made him in popular parlance a chickenhead. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The teacher of Latin was a pale intense young man who had failed in divinity school and yet had enough education to teach the inevitable grammar, Caesar, Cicero. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer did all he could with the equipment in his bag, but he knew even the Brigham’s emergency room probably would have failed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I was annoyed that I had failed to see him first. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I remembered Ares s warning, spoken on the beach in Los Angeles so long ago: When you need it most, your sword will fail you. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around and his heart seemed to fail: Death Eaters had penetrated Hogwarts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Whether the story was true or not, suspicion and dislike settled upon the family, and thirty years had failed to dissipate it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or was he leaving because of me, because I had failed him in some way? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And I thought, the power of God failed where Ultima’s worked; and then a sudden illumination of beauty and understanding flashed through my mind. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the left was the high hill, Cemetery Hill, that Ewell had failed to take the day before, the hill that had worried Longstreet. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commander from 2, a middle-aged woman named Lyme, takes us on a virtual tour of the Nut, its interior and fortifications, and recounts the failed attempts to seize it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

By that point, nearly every effort to send a US agent behind the Iron Curtain had failed; the KGB was simply too well entrenched and too vigilant for the Americans to sneak past its nets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could see by the tremulous light that even Van Helsing’s iron nerve had failed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Let me guess—the desalination plants failed and people rioted.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

After more than four years in court and dozens of prosecutors, thousands of documents and tens of thousands of pages of testi-mony, the state had failed in its mission. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot tell if this is a test he expects me to pass or one he wants me to fail. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A winter during which Tessie’s worries about her children immobilized her, so that she failed to return Christmas presents that didn’t fit, and merely put them in the closet, without getting a refund. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The power of the doctors and the power of the church had failed to cure my uncle. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still think not failing in the first place has got to be the better than getting up after you fail. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“He failed to hear the prophecy. You know as well as I do, Narcissa, that he does not forgive easily.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

If it fails, no one on Earth will ever hear from us again. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not told my mother or brother or aunt that I knew I would fail. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I failed the father,” he said, “but I will not fail the son.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Brother Hang landed inside these walls because of a system that failed him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Christian Crusades in the Holy Lands failed, as the Europeans could not hold on to any sites taken from the Muslims for very long. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She failed first grade by pretending to be stupid, but the setback didn't seem to bother her. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“If he does, you will have failed. It would be best if he takes no note of you at all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The civil suit failed to slow down the State of Alabama, which moved ahead aggressively with more execution dates. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Papa, who would take the strap to our backs if we failed to finish our chores. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Previous experiments using the stadium as shelter had failed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And I explained briefly that I had come up looking for work to pay my way through college and had failed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Eddie, our building super, delivered the worst line of all: And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the space between dreaming and wakefulness, I think of a real argument, long ago—four years ago—after our first and only round of IVF failed, when I wanted to try again. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen carefully. You are going to open the Abbey door for me, my friend. If you fail, your precious little family will pay the penalty! Now, here is what you must do.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Foliage turned yellow, plants failed to mature, and many crops were killed outright. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“This is totally going to fail,” Bongo said at the very same instant. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“My job is important and has enormous honor. But that does not mean I am perfect, and when I tried before to train a successor, I failed. Please ask any questions that will help you.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Should that fail, they were not shy about bursting into fits of bellicosity: cursing or even openly bullying customers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I guess you could say we failed the first test.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One could suggest that the new section on magnetism was added at the last minute, and that della Porta simply failed to revise his introduction in the light of his new conclusions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I refuse to quit, and I won’t let my companions fail, either. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The goddess disappeared, or maybe Jason’s eyesight simply failed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Agents would develop one, then simply drop it, or fail to corroborate it or to conclusively disprove it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It is to be deplored that the experiment failed utterly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The first hint of it came when the Spot heifer failed to show up one evening at milking time. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Able-bodied seamen or mates who failed to leap when Dad barked an order did in fact receive a flogging with a piece of rope. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What happens if the probe fails, Beth?" her father asked. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lunge, attacking after the parry, he retreats, but not far enough; his defense fails. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She let her mind connect dots between the accident and his failed mission. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He failed to show up for work, and when he did, he worked listlessly, and condescended to his father’s employees. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"So there's nothing Gilgamesh failed at and pretended to have done?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I fear now that I failed to engage her; that I was too sallow a character. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Florent would have him fail more visibly. In his son's sight, with a noose about his neck." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He ran for the Nevada legislature and failed again. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You have already failed me, Thorn,” he said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

My serve is what is called an epic fail, and some of the girls start doing the slow clap. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He began telling Julia of something that had happened, or rather had failed to happen, on another sweltering summer afternoon, eleven years ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He said it's being willing to fail but try again—pushing through and sticking with something even if it’s hard. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I can see Lyme’s frustration building because so many variations of this plan have already failed, so many of her soldiers have been lost. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“You like him because he’s a lost boy. Believe me, I’ve seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I tell you this and I tell it once: stop the man in black. Stop him for good and all. If you fail, there will be no excuses; I will find another giant.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His enthusiasm bordered on mania, yet still it failed to inspire us. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For half an hour, the cops and government thugs tried everything to shackle my father’s hands, and each time, they failed. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The room was very still, when the clear voice failed suddenly at the last line of Beth’s favorite hymn. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I pray God I may not fail,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one could persuasively explain how it had managed to cross two thousand miles of hostile ocean but then failed to find its way around the corner of a 200-mile-wide island. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We failed at that as well. No one threw coins.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Brother Ugo clutched his chest as though there was a real danger his heart might fail him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’d failed at protecting, and now, as a result, I failed at remaining myself. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We both know without mentioning it that she must have failed her year, despite the new school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before following the men north into the jungle, she dug her hands into the earth and narrowed her eyes, promising herself that this time she would not fail. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

While those questions of proximate cause remain unanswered, the ultimate reasons why Norse colonization of Greenland and America failed are abundantly clear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. William Currie completely rejected Rush’s bloodletting and the use of mercury, saying such methods “cannot fail of being certain death.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“We see from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout. Not that we cause things to fail, you understand.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huygens pumped away, air was removed, but the water level failed to fall. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the end it can be said with some degree of certainty that Prohibition failed for two overriding reasons. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A tricky situation needs to be resolved through a complex series of steps — and somehow the pilots fail to coordinate and miss one of them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“The connection between Olympus and America is dissolving. If it fails—” “The gods won’t move on to another country this time,” Thalia said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Each evening, without fail, he summons his courage and goes to the Nuevo Laredo city hall with a large plastic paint bucket and two rags. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Following a failed escape attempt, Strijdom had been found guilty of car theft. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly, it was quite a strenuous walk - though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty - the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Periodically, he will run a shifting maze, but when he fails and finds himself in a dead-end, he reacts violently. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We had these highly motivated individuals—radar operators and pilots—who would miss attacks or drop bombs on the wrong cities. Why did they fail?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The other inhabitants of Shell Cottage could hardly fail to notice that something was going on now that Harry, Ron, and Hermione only emerged for mealtimes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“When the apartment was empty that night, I sat on the floor and read the letter from my father. I read about the vase. I felt like I’d failed him.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could hang on for a little longer, getting weaker and weaker, but eventually his fingers would fail and he’d slip off. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had tried to stop them and he had conspicuously failed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lately my breasts and belly ached, though my bleeding had failed to commence. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He’d known it from the moment the duel started, and began sweating when she had the opportunity to bestow a winning blow and failed to deliver it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was there the day I failed my Trial, the day I was supposed to die. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You still do not follow what I mean. Suppose he had gone as a merlin last night, and failed in the ordeal, and lost his nerve?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, trying to figure out why they had failed to transform her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After the failed drop, we stood outside, huddled around the video camera as Dari played it back for us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She’d given me the roses to give to Mamá and I had failed to deliver them in time, because somewhere along the line they had lost their magic. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He gave the sword another fruitless tug, tried and failed to mount the fat pony, gave up, and cried, “On foot then, good sirs and gentle lady! On! On!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I had never thought about it before—too much happened after my failed execution for me to dwell on the details of my rescue. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

—When you were born, I wanted to give you something my father had tried, but failed, to give me—a name to be proud of. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like everyone else, they had failed even to make a scratch. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On the smooth walls were several paintings whose nature he tried to make out, but failed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it never failed that during the dry' years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When I got to know the families and their struggles, I knew I couldn’t fail,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In one of the dumbest moves of the war, he’d failed to prepare for a Japanese naval attack. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, a student from Yu-cai High School killed himself because he failed the university entrance examination. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even this particular assignment involved him—if Brother Jacques failed to come up with the cue, then Obie had to find a way to feed it to him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel was dead and Holly’s expedition had totally failed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember also one passenger who failed to turn up. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

On each of his three expeditions to explore the Antarctic, Shackleton had failed in his mission. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“We really need the last council meeting records. We might fail if we don’t get them.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And at the best he would have come out of Efrafa with no more than a couple of does, because his nerve had failed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 5, 1958, the hapless Vanguard team tried again for orbit and failed, although this time their rocket managed to at least clear the gantry before it blew up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

School failed to interest him on any level, and the neighbors were greatly relieved when he finally retired his trumpet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’ll get to save myself the embarrassment of being the only moonstone badge recipient to fail a tryout and be sent home. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Conger, Baker, and Doherty had failed to give them any orders at all on the subject. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The system failed me, so I decided I didn’t need the system.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Despite his lead codpiece, the dust—undoubtedly—filtered in and at him, brought him daily, so long as he failed to emigrate, its little load of befouling filth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

If I’m not going to fail as campaign manager, we’ll have to think of something better. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They had failed at rehabilitating the dangerous ones and hauled them off in the night, but the so-called “improvements” didn’t stop there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For east or west all woods must fail... The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He failed to recognize that though the immigrants felt injury in losing the job, the insult lay in losing out to blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They play her death in full, the spearing, my failed rescue attempt, my arrow through the boy from District 1's throat, Rue drawing her last breath in my arms. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

You will fail to save what matters most in the end. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And, most telling of all: “No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Georgia trader paid high prices, and if the masters were in debt, or a crop had failed, or they had been gambling heavily and losing, they sold off another lot of slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nowhere is the stratification of education more vivid than in Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson once tried, and failed, to set up the nation’s first public high schools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The moment the war touched her life, at the first moment of pressure, she had failed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nok was so distracted that she failed to notice that the forest path led straight into a sinkhole. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The expedition he’d been hoping to join had failed for lack of funds even before it had left Amsterdam, so he was stranded. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the king reasoned that a maiden might melt the dragon's heart and succeed where warriors had failed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Nor could he search very long; the mechanism had almost failed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A robot, by its very nature, cannot bear to fail its function. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever my Farsi failed me, I just made up what the characters were saying to each other with words I could remember. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He spurred the stot onward, waving the peace banner so they could not fail to see it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even his famously toothy grin failed to put me at ease. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn’t love me,” began Laurie, leaning his head on his hand in a despondent attitude. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

James Garfield suffered through multiple surgeries as his doctors tried and failed to treat his gunshot wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She felt like someday there would be a test that didn’t involve getting an A in pretty, and she would fail it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

This battalion of heroes ventured out into the stricken city every day without fail. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We contended that his attorneys had failed to provide effective assistance of counsel at trial when they didn't uncover Avery's history or present his disabilities as relevant to his criminal culpability and sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I have never before been hot, on Winter; I never will be again; yet I fail to appreciate the event. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What people fail to see is this: If Europe had cared more about Africa, the Jewish Holocaust would not have happened,” Odenigbo said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Joe had failed at every job, his father in despair put him to herding sixty sheep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She inspects George’s right shirt pocket for the treat he brings her every night without fail. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

"Gods, how did we come to this? You here, and me killed by a pig. We won a throne together . . ." I failed you, Robert, Ned thought. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She seemed to be taking the library’s lack of useful information on the subject as a personal insult; it had never failed her before. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“But you said you’d be proud of me when I go a whole day without earmuffs, and I failed at school. And today, too...” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He meant that I had failed to call him Mr. Pease. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the usual insects and the well-publicized starving people in India, we failed to see any potential takers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I could tell she wanted to say something, but words seemed to fail her. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As it happened, they failed in this new land, failed in just about every way possible. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

For all the years that I was in prison, I never failed to be surprised when the warder called, “Time up!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted the sign over my head and walked through the crowd, showing them all what they failed to see for themselves. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Who else will I fail to save from the Capitol’s vengeance? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me feel vulnerable and seen, and it gets me teary eyed, like when someone sings “Happy Birthday” to me—seriously, every year, it never fails. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She stopped there, hand on the door’s handle, and she said, “Do not fail him. Strike when the time comes. Be true.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Rather than depending on just a few crops that could fail, they minimized risk by developing an economy based on a great variety of wild foods, not all of which were likely to fail simultaneously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That should be interesting. I would hate to see your handsome head on a spike if you fail.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since he doesn’t know that President Snow thinks I have failed, he can only assume that I think we have succeeded. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I again proclaimed that a countrywide campaign of noncooperation would be launched if the state failed to hold such a convention. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the scholars were seeing him for the first time, and you could almost feel their carefully cultivated skepticism fail. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The thermostat had failed, and the heat would not go off. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If so, it was a test that Bowman failed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But when the does’ deputation to the Council failed, Blackavar turned to the idea of escape. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in England, Clarkson and his friends saw their chance: France was no longer in the midst of a revolution, and Napoleon’s sugar dreams had failed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“There is your ‘Society for Humanity’ which is strong in the North, but naturally fails to find many recruits in tired, old Europe, which is quite willing to let feeble Humanity alone for a while. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, Dermer failed to execute his part of the plan, too. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its similar to what we’ve seen in the South with the Negro, where the plague often fails to spread widely within populations of colored peoples.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He failed to explain convincingly how mountain ranges were formed and overlooked glaciers as an agent of change. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad failed to point out that writing wasn't exactly the most stable career, either. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This hypothesis, too, has failed to stir enthusiasm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways, as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Westley let go of the vine without a qualm, because he had come too far to fail now; failure was not even a problem to be considered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He devoted the rest of his life to searching for a way to tie up these loose ends by finding a grand unified theory, and always failed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hecate has failed you, as she fails all of her followers in the end. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I had failed to anticipate the need for soccer/non-American football gear when I packed. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

On one occasion, after he failed to appear for several potentially lucrative races, his agent found him starring in a bull-riding exhibition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The failed invasion cost the Germans heavily: More than one million German lives were lost. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A life of frequent concerns that the next interception may not work, that the trap or the drive will fail, or that the herds will not appear this season. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It started with a period—it might have been a month, maybe longer—when the pranks went on pretty steadily, but Tommy failed to lose his temper. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried and failed to imagine her, this woman who could after so many years renounce altogether her husband, break the bond that must surely have existed despite his long absences. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in reply Alkinoos observed: “Friend, my child’s good judgment failed in this— not to have brought you in her company home. Once you approached her, you became her charge.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After authorities failed to investigate—“They never would have done anything,” one of Lewis’s relatives said—her family hired a private detective. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun failed in its attempt to light the room through the single window, and the press of bodies and scents and sounds melted to give us an aromatic and artificial twilight. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Selitos spoke in a great voice, “Never before has my sight been clouded. I failed to see the truth inside your heart.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Having apparently failed with witch doctors, she began exploring other options. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The civil rights assault had failed because of defections in the ranks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“He was dead when I got here. I tried to bring him back the way I brought you back when you were drowning. I failed.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to pluck it away but failed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonviolence has not failed us,” he said, “we have failed nonviolence.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The witches’ spell had failed, but his father had healed him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell someone I’d failed the exam, but something stopped me from calling Tyler. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was lucky, but he always knew in the back of his mind that if he failed in football it didn’t really matter anyway. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d failed to communicate for years when she had the chance; she wasn’t going to give up now. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a strange sort of stillness from Mamma’s side of the couch, which Dimple tried, and failed, to decipher. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At first Balthamos didn’t speak, but then he said, “Yes. Yes, of course I must. Sleep now, Will, and I shall stand guard, I shan’t fail you.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This painful trade-off is why ecologists argue that any attempt by tropical forest societies to grow beyond small villages has always been doomed to fail. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yet he had determined to do this thing; his ninety-three-year-old pride would not allow him to fail. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I therefore conclude that, since Fortune varies and men remain obstinate in their ways, men prosper when the two are in harmony and fail to prosper when they are not in accord. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Winner Lane: how could he fail with a name like that? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Breakfast was an hour later than usual, and after breakfast there was a ceremony which was observed every week without fail. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

So Lena Feldt failed to see or to care about what Mrs. Coulter did next. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ever. By any means. Which is why our nineteen-eighties expedition was doomed to fail.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Let me remind everybody, we are not here to win or lose. Justice often fails because it seeks to punish, not to heal. Jails and fines harden people.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The combined campaign failed, but Cyrene was not returned to Alexandria’s full control for decades. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Well yeah, but...I’m not an arcade fanatic. I have failed you.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Most of the time I fail before I even open my mouth. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I knew that others had tried it before me and had failed, but I was hoping to be lucky. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we fail—well, then I suppose we must come back here, or find some other farm. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at him, trying to re-hear what he just said, but I fail. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“They deliberately failed us, the bloody Boers!” shouted a student. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edie shoots me a weird look, either a grimace or a kind of failed attempt at a smile, and leaves without another word. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The book was filled with the minutiae of his many failed runs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I am satisfied. I’ve done what I undertook, and it’s not my fault that it failed. I comfort myself with that,” said Amy with a little quiver in her voice. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taran could not be sure how close the warriors were; he knew the Cauldron-Born could hardly fail to track them, by sound if nothing else, for they no longer attempted to move silently. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I had been thinking how the medicine of the doctors and of the priest had failed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snickered, remembering the pitiful look on Tamika’s face after her failed spy attempt. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In the other comer was a Ye Olde English version of a 7-Eleven, which for some reason was also a post office and a drugstore and sold newspapers out front if all else failed. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of human life, and the chill in the air was increasing by the minute as the light failed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If she failed them on this quest, zonked out when they needed her most... she couldn’t bear that idea. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Why did God fail to protect innocent students from the police? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sprang onto the barge and took a place on the railing next to me, flushed and scant of breath and—something I had somehow failed to notice before—quite pretty. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Redwall contingent had stolen a march upon him, and the battering ram had failed miserably. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Ranofer’s lips parted, then closed again as his courage failed him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Uriah glances at me, but I cant read his expression well enough to know if he succeeded or failed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What happen to your brother? Why he fail? He never fail.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once he told me that, being so slow-thinking, he had to guide his acts by a general intuition of which way his “luck” was running, and that this intuition rarely failed him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the confessions, though they answered questions of how and why, failed to satisfy his sense of meaningful design. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Burnham, with his failed attempts at getting into Harvard and Yale and his lack of formal architectural training, sitting down to dinner with these men was like being a stranger at someone else’s Thanksgiving. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After tests were returned and grades given, the student body, which acted like an extended family, knew who did well, who excelled, and what piteous ones had failed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intuition underlying moral-uplift strategies is fundamentally sound: our communities will never thrive if we fail to respect ourselves and one another. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He refused it. I shall not fail to take it. Shall you?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons that confound medical science, the product also fails to affect those working in certain professions—the editors of fashion magazines, for example. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For he is a man of observation, but his own creations fail to take. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You’re about to be late with your paper. Either turn it in now or fail the class,” she replied. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When the caterpillars died or their pupae failed to produce an adult, she repeated her investigations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She felt like she was being handed back a quiz that she’d definitely failed and was doing her best to turn over the paper as slowly as possible. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Armin warded the blows easily enough but often failed to return them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gaylyn even wondered about how people come home after a failed mission. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jack and I both tried—and failed—to win anything, but we heard Amos won a yellow hippo and gave it to Ximena. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Through the broken doorway was a fallen tower of trunks and dressers; a failed blockade. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I look through the rest of the notebook, trying to find other, failed deadlines. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Anyone who failed to get his message through in three minutes, as I sometimes failed to do when trying to impress him, Phineas, with my sanctity, wasn’t trying. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So again the power of the priest has failed, I thought. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Lillian Woodward failed to show for her prelude, and Turner found himself taking her place at the organ bench and looking over a mighty small congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

If they chose wrong, they would fail, and the entire world would be destroyed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If the crop of minute sea vegetation fails, the young shellfish will starve. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You help me with this new normalization campaign, and I’ll help you with that paper you almost failed.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her letter failed because she couldn’t conceive of the profundity of your problem—she couldn’t fathom the pressures brought to bear upon you because of environment, intellectual frustration and a growing tendency toward isolationism. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cars whizzed past, the suckers failed to connect, the faces fell back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Dominican government has used much concrete to make this ditch, to bring water to the cane fields when the rains fail. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it only two months before he had tried to write those very words and failed so miserably? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler, imprisoned for leading the Beer Hall Putsch, the failed coup attempt to seize power in Munich, read about Ploetz and race science while jailed in the 1920s and was immediately transfixed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Any man who failed to report was considered a traitor and, when caught, was shot or hanged from a lamppost without question. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Subsequent efforts to align musical pace with horological time, however, failed to ignite general enthusiasm; indeed, others were still attempting to match musical pulse with less scientific external sources. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“You should hurry back. It would be a shame if you failed your community service requirements right at the end of the year.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Uh . . .” If this was a test he had just failed it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, when the delegates had all assembled in Alkonost to cross the desert together, Thyon Nero had failed to recognize him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t want to fall asleep thinking about all the ways he’d failed in life, so he decided to imagine what he would do differently if he was ever rescued. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The danger about being the best knight in the world was that if you were always being tested about it, the day was bound to come when you would fail to retain the title. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I failed, but you—The dead boy’s words are showing the way. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was common knowledge that Snape really wanted the Dark Arts job, and he had now failed to get it for the fourth year running. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He wanted to try to drink water again but he didn’t want her to see him fail. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You are a side effect,” Van Houten continued, “of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

My mother, listening to this debate, couldn’t fail to notice the stark contrasts between her two suitors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For instance, the prosecutor agreed that there was no reason to bring in Reggie’s failed mission, and he had never intended to. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I watch Ruby trudge sullenly through the four-o’clock show, and I wonder: What will happen if I fail? The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And here is a thing that most of us fail to appreciate: we are still in an ice age, only now we experience it for just part of the year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because his subjects had not gotten full-blown yellow fever, many scientists thought that Finlay had failed to prove the relationship between mosquitoes and the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

That question never failed to reduce Franklin D. Roosevelt to silence touched with awe. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve all heard of punishment beatings and fines in rebel- held cities for women who fail to dress a certain way. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Borrowing Jamie’s gloves, I hold the belay line—letting out slack as Jay rises, ready to snap it back if his legs slip or his grip fails. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And I knew that he could not fail to see me as he passed. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you must fail,” he said grandly, “fail spectacularly!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The trainees who had failed to help Martinez probably just didn’t realize what was going on or what was expected of them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I am weary, and our hunt has failed. Or at least others were before us; for these horsemen are riding back down the orc-trail. We may get news from them.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as Christiansen saw the photos he realized why he had failed to spot the caldera: virtually the whole park–2.2 million acres–was caldera. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

So while the bow oarsman must be strong, like all the others, it’s most important that he or she be technically proficient: capable of pulling a perfect oar, stroke after stroke, without fail. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

These revelations failed to inspire an outcry by the press or the public, and the committee presently ended its investigation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Our relationship remained rocky for two or three years after my failed attempt on the Eiger, but the marriage somehow survived that rough patch. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her vision was fickle and wild as the sea, and it had already failed her once today. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“But...change is scary. What if I fail at what I’m trying to do?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But, sir,” I said, “even without my mother tongue, my average comes out higher than a second-class pass. So how could I have failed?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s this half-blood kid we brought to camp last winter. He, uh . . . he asked me to guard his sister on a quest, and I failed. She died. Now he blames me.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There is nothing about her that fails to draw me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single day, without fail, for over two years.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You are going to have advantages—and education. You’ll be around better role models. Mrs. Moss had several violent, failed marriages.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t fail,” she said, but didn’t sound too convinced of it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Justyce asks himself the same question as he watches her try—and fail—to shift to her knees. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The faces of all the kings that he had served and failed floated before him in the darkness, and the faces of the brothers who had served beside him in the Kingsguard as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday, without fail, Dad and I went to Ming Palace, a Chinese restaurant wedged between Planet Fitness and the Price Chopper supermarket out on Route 24. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It’s bad enough to fail, but far worse to see another succeed at the very accomplishment you’d hoped to achieve. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I guess she passed the test, and I failed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My courage failed me at the sight of a countinghouse or shop crowded with men, bartering and contending loudly with one another. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why have we failed to domesticate such a prized food source as acorns? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After basketball was a total fail for me, he thought volleyball could be good. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I sat down at the translation of Caesar I was doing for him, since he had to pass Latin at last this year or fail to graduate. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir,” I demanded softly, “with the respect due to me as your student, tell me why Mr. Sharpe wishes me to fail.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If I fail this class,” I said, “I’ll lose my scholarship.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Not only were the lights about to fail and the supplies about to run out, but the water system was breaking down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The scrying device hadn’t failed at all, Luna realized with a start. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were still out there, waiting for his courage to fail, but for the moment Tendai gave himself up to the feeling of strength. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The law failed to stem the cotton tide. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My appetite vanished and my digestive system, which required abundant oxygen to metabolize food, failed to make use of much of what I forced myself to eat; instead my body began consuming itself for sustenance. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But to complete it, he had to track, down the current holder of that position, which he failed to do, as you know. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Harry shook his head, wondering, as he did so, how he could have failed to ask Neville this, in almost four years of knowing him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My arms, like wings, spread out, but they fail to send me soaring. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It would take some time, but I finally understood that I hadn’t failed at that meet. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The cows that the Bantu acquired from the tsetse-free Sahel zone failed to survive the Bantu expansion through the equatorial forest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

All this summer he had failed, and there was no help for him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

To complicate matters, one of the Soviets leaked to the press that if Fischer failed to come for the second game, Spassky would probably return to Moscow. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Arturo, if we go around acting as if we are desperate to win the favor of the community, then we will fail.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I failed the test somehow. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was her burden, because she’d claimed him and then failed him. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Nailed it. Either that or I failed horribly. Could go either way, based on subjectivity and revisionist history,” Sean murmured. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She was the lovely, golden-haired harper who had tried for her talent and failed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And if I failed, Falconer would not be pleased. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pai either failed to hear or chose to ignore the correction. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Go ahead, then, fail math and be lonely the rest of your life. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good-bye, Mina, if I fail; good-bye, my faithful friend and second father; good-bye, all, and last of all Mina! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then—this was starting to get embarrassing—a sergeant responding to the incident failed to secure a gate and had liquid of an unknown nature thrown in his face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his letters failed to arrive, nightmares dogged her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Either the copper percussion cap might fail to spark, or the black powder in the barrel might fail to ignite because of dampness. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Mallow, to whose Mark—the Right Fore—he had been sent on trial, had praised his courage and endurance but had not failed to notice the proud detachment of his nature. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But I still feel that they are looking at me, or thinking about me: making some other plan, perhaps. If this light were lowered, or if it failed, they would quickly come again.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

How else can one explain why the Aborigines of northeastern Australia failed to adopt bows and arrows, which they saw being used by Torres Straits islanders with whom they traded? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On this occasion, however, Lawrence’s immense credibility as the biggest of the big scientists failed to carry the day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I had failed to convince my sisters to stay away from the creature and now we were being invited into his cave. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“The only way we could lose the war,” said physicist Philip Morrison, “was if we failed in our jobs.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After landing, Mars 3 may have made a few bounces, hit a boulder or other example of Martian relief, tipped over, lost the radio link with its carrier “bus” and failed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d saved her life so many times on their quest to Alaska; but when he had needed Hazel’s help in Rome, she’d failed him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Are you telling me it was a fail?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Never did O’Brien fail to understand what was said to him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When once I failed, I felt a flurry of starbursts on my ankles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

If he failed and everyone laughed, Ryan might not give back the motorcycle after all. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

After what felt like my hundredth failed attempt at a backflip, I finally fell down and didn’t get back up. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Have the students who failed the exam take the supplementary. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nay, nay, whatever may now betide in war, my line too is ending, even the House of the Stewards has failed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Of all the reasons that we fail to know the truth about mass incarceration, though, one stands out: a profound misunderstanding regarding how racial oppression actually works. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t fail to notice that Nicolas discreetly asked about her but made no attempt to visit her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be stupid, boy. The girl clearly has no interest in our cause. I gave you the chance to win her over and you failed. But not to worry...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Without fail, the people started to inch closer, surrounding Mark and Alec. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Since I've failed at drinking both the alcoholic beverages Tiny bought me, Jane tosses the keys back to me in a high arc. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

When I failed to answer, a stocky female avatar stepped out of the shadows and into the chamber’s flickering torchlight. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And you, too, have failed. But, since your journey was the longer, I ask you which of us wasted more of his labor and pains?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I would do just about anything to accomplish the goal she failed to achieve. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, there was no information that failed to reach him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again and again she replayed what had happened in the fight against Gaia, trying to figure out how she could have failed Leo so badly. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And yet somehow—even with everything lined up to help her—she’d failed. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It must have been a good two hours, and would, Kit suspected, have been much longer had not the minister’s voice grown increasingly hoarse till it threatened to fail altogether. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

About the president’s visit, about Gale, about how we’re all going to die if I fail. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It must also have failed to do preliminary research to discover the minimum amount of the chemical that would accomplish its purpose. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A space center that housed mankind's most advanced knowledge of rocketry yet had still failed to execute today's launch. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family grew and prospered and argued and failed and loved and laughed. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But when the body failed to come alive and scar my mind forever by breaking the glass and going for my jugular, my initial panic subsided. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I never failed to cite that even Billy Graham, challenged in Africa, had himself made the distinction, “I believe in Christ, not Christianity.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I must stay beside my son. He might still speak before the end. But that is near. Follow whom you will, even the Grey Fool, though his hope has failed. Here I stay.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z