1 Prissy went off at a trot, the letter gripped in her hand, and Scarlett went back upstairs, trying to think of some plausible lie to explain Mrs. Elsing's failure to appear.
2 To be poor seemed to her such a confession of failure that it amounted to disgrace; and she detected a note of condescension in the friendliest advances.
3 It could not be that one conscious of such aptitudes for mastery and enjoyment was doomed to a perpetuity of failure; and her mistakes looked easily reparable in the light of her restored self-confidence.
4 Lily's passing light-heartedness sank beneath a renewed sense of failure.
5 She read their incredulity in their averted looks, and in the mute wretchedness of the men behind them, and for a miserable half-second he thought she quivered on the brink of failure.
6 She saw, too, in the same uncompromising light, the train of consequences resulting from that failure; and these became clearer to her with every day of her weary lingering in town.
7 Gerty had tried to veil her failure in tender ambiguities; but Carry, always the soul of candour, put the case squarely to her friend.
8 She tried to be inconspicuous, but she was betrayed by her failure to glow over the boosting.
9 Heyward was far from regretting that his mummeries were to be performed on one who was much too ill to take an interest in their failure or success.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 10 The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.
11 The vessels were to be launched in the July of that year, and in failure thereof, Mr. Gardner was to lose a considerable sum; so that when I entered, all was hurry.
12 The ground for his refusal was a failure on my part, one Saturday night, to pay him for my week's time.
13 This failure was occasioned by my attending a camp meeting about ten miles from Baltimore.
14 Besides the pain of separation, the dread and apprehension of a failure exceeded what I had experienced at my first attempt.
15 His failure to discover any mite of resemblance in their viewpoints made him more miserable than before.