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1  Because, when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  Miss Ingram, I am sure you will not fail in evincing superiority to idle terrors.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  When I heard this, I was beginning to feel a strange chill and failing at the heart.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  On closer examination, you detected something in his face that displeased, or rather that failed to please.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  St. John called me to his side to read; in attempting to do this my voice failed me: words were lost in sobs.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquillity was no more.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
8  It was a wailing child this night, and a laughing one the next: now it nestled close to me, and now it ran from me; but whatever mood the apparition evinced, whatever aspect it wore, it failed not for seven successive nights to meet me the moment I entered the land of slumber.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII