Cannot my kneeling serve, my teares prevaile, When all helpes faile mee, yet this will not faile: Proffer thy weapon to her beautious side, And with her heart my heart I will divide.
O be not blinded with a false surmise, For least my tongue should faile to end the tale Of our untimely fate-appointed death, Know young Allenso is as innocent As is Fallerio guiltie of the crime.
Shine not in pride and gorgeous attire, When clouds doe faile the pole where thou art fixt.
And bicause he would not faileto accomplyshe the perfection of his intent, hee inuyted all the Gentlemen and Gentlewomen that were his neighbours.
And I sweare vnto you by my faith not to faile to keepe my promyse, to cause you speake alone with mistresse Zilia.
Hereof they or any of them are not tofaile at their utmost perils.
And lest by her long talke she should be found to trip or faile in her words, she filled their laps with gold, silver, and Jewels, and commanded Zephyrus to carry them away.
Stand but to'th fate of this, and if it faile I will sitt downe a Convert and renounce All wanton hope hereafter.
Without witchcraft, sir, I have a stratageme to delude my husband And all his jealous waking eyes, a plott That cannot faileif you dare but expect me.
And coniure wisely, too; the devill will faile else.
Therefore whilest for temporall things they neglect spirituall, they faile in both.
O state of Nature, faile together in me, Since thy best props are warpt!
If his owne life, Answere the straitnesse of his proceeding, It shall become him well: wherein if he chance to faile he hath sentenc'd himselfe Esc I am going to visit the prisoner, Fare you well Duke.
Thus faile not to doe your Office, as you will answere it at your perill.
Howbeit, as the bountie of the Scotish dooth faile in some respect, so dooth it surmount in other; God and nature hauing not appointed all countries to yeeld foorth like commodities.
Powisy did six, and Gwinhedh fourteene, except my memorie doo faile me.
If any make default or faile at the day, he is mulcted, and punished very seuerely.
Adieu till then, then faile not: you haue wonne A wife of me, though there my hope be done Ber.
Ile to the Fryer to know his remedy, If all faile els, I haue the power to dye.
Thankes gentle Nurse, dispatch thy busines, And Ile not faileto meete my Romeo.
The king ayein began to crave, And tolde him the condicion, Hou ferst unto his question He mote ansuere and faile noght, Or with his heved it schal be boght: 400 And he him axeth what it was.
Largesce mai noght ben unknowe; For what lond that he regneth inne, It mai noght faile forto winne Thurgh his decerte love and grace, Wher it schal failein other place.
And with that word sche was forschape, Ther may no vois hire mouth ascape, What man that in the wodes crieth, Withoute faile Eccho replieth, And what word that him list to sein, The same word sche seith ayein.
They londe and faile of that thei seche Be coverture and sleyhte of speche: This false man Strangulio, And Dionise his wif also, That he the betre trowe myhte, Thei ladden him to have a sihte 1580 Wher that hir tombe was arraied.
And to this point withoute faile This kniht, whan he hath herd his lord, Is swore, and stant of his acord, As thei that bothe yonge were; So that in prive conseil there Thei ben assented forto wende.
For his nature is so divers, That it hath evere som travers Or of to moche or of to lite, That pleinly mai noman delite, 3160 Bot if him faile or that or this.
Justice which doth equite 3130 Is dredfull, for he noman spareth; Bot in the lond wher Pite fareth The king mai nevere faile of love, For Pite thurgh the grace above, So as the Philosphre affermeth, His regne in good astat confermeth.
And Samuel him seide anon, "The ferste day of the bataille Thou schalt be slain withoutefaile And Jonathas thi Sone also.
For who that can no conseil hyde, He mai noght faile of wo beside, Which schal befalle er he it wite, As I finde in the bokes write.
And efte I thenke forthermore, To som man hou the niht doth ese, Whan he hath thing that mai him plese 2860 The longe nyhtes be his side, Where as I faile and go beside.
If you who may command God concerning the work of his hand, shall faile to demand the workemanship of his hand in this worke, your children will proclaime you un-thrifts with bitter teares to the worlds end.
These words came to the hearing of the earle of Alanson, who said; "A man is well at ease to be charged with such a sort of rascals, that faint and faile now at most need.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
