He strove to think that she had failed to recognize him, yet feeling that the cut was deliberate.
He failed to catch a glimpse of her during luncheon and was in a bad humor when the team made an early start for the ball park.
Gamely they rallied in the fifth and again in the sixth inning, but failed to reach even terms again as Carver, the best pitcher of the Travelers, was holding them by clever work.
McCarthy had puzzled for two days over the odd conduct of Helen Baldwin, and her brief note, appointing that evening for the call, had failed to bring any solution of the riddle.
All the notoriety that suddenly was thrust upon McCarthy hadfailed to affect him, although Manager Clancy watched his "find" anxiously, and pleaded with the newspaper men not to spoil him.
They failed to increase their advantage in the first half of the inning and took the field determined to hold their lead.
Ellis struck the ball with one hand and sent a carroming down to Swanson, who failed in a desperate effort to throw out the runner.
The Bears failed to score in their half of the eighth, and the Maroons opened with a fierce assault upon Klinker that threatened to break down the Bears' inner wall of defense.
McCarthy spent the evening loitering around the hotel lobbies, still hoping for an opportunity to see Miss Tabor, and she failed to appear at dinner and was not with Mr. and Mrs. Clancy when they started out for a car ride.
And that surely was worth a trip to the Isle of Man, even if one failed to see one of their tailless cats.
Can it be that their teachers failed to invest these places with human interest, that they were but words in a book and not real to them at all?
I'd be decidedly uncomfortable, years hence, to find him but "the runt of something good" because I had failed to pay that debt.
Had there occurred a meeting, on the campus, between him and Zeus he would have been offended, I am sure, if Zeus had failed to set off a few thunderbolts in his honor.
I succeeded with the puppy, but failed with the boy.
Then I shall proceed to recount to them how Christopher Columbus, in an effort to circumnavigate the globe and reach the eastern coast of Asia, failed in this undertaking, but made a far greater achievement in the discovery of America.
Whether we have failed or not, the democratic principle remains unaffected.
The mode of choosing a President by the National House of Representatives, when the people have failed to elect one, is thoroughly anti-democratic.
I have failed to secure more than a very small fragment of it, which is itself only written down from memory by one of these old women.
Kitty gave him a sharp glance, as though some sudden emergency was clear before her which her tact failedto meet.
Even the English charge d'affaires, and a Commission sent thither by the Institute of France, failed to get him free!
Where Caspar, a strong man and experienced in the ways of the wilderness, has failed to find the lost ones, what chance will there be for Cypriano?
Naraguana had never before failedin any promise made to him.
Her beauty had not failed to make impression upon the heart of Aguara, long before his having become cacique.
Although my time had always been actively employed, I had regarded the progress of your education with so much interest, that I never failed to create opportunities for superintending your studies.
It's lucky you didn't throw it away as you did the frying-pan and coffee-pot, which I see you failed to carry along with you.
Perhaps since entreaties had failed something in the way of half-veiled threats would become more successful.
He had once met Mangas Colorado, the head chief of the tribe, who was called Red Sleeve, from the fact that he never failedto besmear his arms to the elbow, in the blood of his victims.
Hurriedly he told us that the party were not a mile away; but he had failed to discover the two braves with the prisoner, who were evidently lingering behind for some purpose.
Lardner's calculations, but failed to produce any effect upon the majority of those present, who were powerfully impressed by the lecturer's dogmatic assertions.
In one of these trials, the screw, having got into a bed of running sand, had no hold, andfailed to descend.
She was so often missing, that the announcement failed to excite any great apprehension in the mind of either her father or her aunt.
Fortunately the projectiles had failed to burst, otherwise the tramp would not be still afloat.
Either Osborne had failed to hear his chum's voice, or else he had made up his mind to charge the boom, in the hope that the steamboat's sharp bow would shear through the danger.
He realized the risk--he also realized the tremendous responsibility, for if he failed in the enterprise the rest of the survivors of the Portchester Castle were doomed.
In the World War he attempted to cause this Holy War but failed because the Mohammedans in Arabia did not recognize the Sultan of Turkey as Kalif.
Nor should it be forgotten that if General Pershing's army had failed in its almost impossible task, no armistice would have been asked for.
Sometimes he prefers to go down with his ship so that it may never be said that his soulfailed him.
Her motor launch failedto get alongside outside the harbor, and she had men enough for anything.
But the labor officials spent a long time trying to arrive at some agreement, and failed completely.
It would be a shame to her all her life to know she had failed in this trying time.
This initiative would be splendid if it could succeed; but it cannot, and for the same logical reasons as failed the recent initiative about belligerents.
If he hadfailed at Donelson, the strategians would have washed their hands, and thrown on Grant the disaster.
When posterity, in digging among the tombs of the friends of mankind, and of universal freedom, shall fail to find there the name of Edmund Quincy, it will be because the engraver failed to do his duty.
Happily the military publican soon afterwards failed in business, and William found a better master and a more congenial employment with Captain Cilvers, on board a steam-boat plying between St. Louis and Galena.
I smile scornfully at the "completion" that failed even of an attempt.
The result entirely failed to substantiate the accusations.
But after the expiration of five days my friend failed to return to his old cell, and I soon learned that he had been ordered into solitary confinement for refusing to betray the men who had trusted him.
Often I lash myself into wild anger with Carl for having failed to impress my comrades with the feasibility of the plan, to fire them with the enthusiasm of activity.
It is peculiar, however, that the conductor has failed to notice my closely cropped hair.
But greater minds have failed fully to grasp the iniquity of the established.
Had we strength,--but if the judicial murders of 1887 failed to arouse more than passive indignation, can I expect radical developments in consequence of my brutally excessive sentence?
The repeated searches have failed to unearth them.
Either the beef might have choked him or it might have given him ptomaine poisoning, or, if it failed of either of these, there are at least half-a-dozen fatal diseases which vegetarians say are caused by eating it.
For one thing, I had become infected with a tinge of the native enthusiasm about seeing the great game of the woods, and then down in my soul I rejoiced that Eddie had failed to capture the little calf.
Many a well-constructed camp has gone to wreck during a spell of bad weather because one or more of its occupants did not bring along imagination and a sense of humor, or failed to produce these articles at the critical moment.
In fact, he failed utterly to grasp the purpose back of the laws and like a great many others he regarded them as a restriction of individual liberty, and a violation as of no very great moment.
It was then that he remembered that in the subsequent excitement he had failed to give the view hallo when he had started the does and thus warn the others that game was afoot.
You will find that most of your companions are distinguished gentlemen of learning and ability, who, knowing their duty, failed to perform it.
Though it was very early, not a single one failed to appear.
Their courage had failed them at the moment of undertaking one of those excursions which, thanks to the ability of living aeronauts, are free from all danger.
The direction of the ship could not be accurately determined, as all the surrounding points constantly changed position, and thus failed to afford a fixed perspective.
Scholastique alone refused to listen to reason on the subject; but her efforts failed to prevent the unwelcome visitors from reaching her master, and from soon departing with some valuable object.
For a brief moment I forgot to "sit in the seat of the scorner" and failed to look at the matter from a ludicrous point of view.
I failed to learn the name of the unknown nocturnal writer.
For he saw that which he had failed to perceive before--Franz as he was in reality, and not as he seemed to superficial observers.
She was a pious and a God-fearing soul too, who had neverfailed in saying her prayers, nor had missed an early mass for years during his absence.
Notwithstanding my great and genuine regard for him, however, whenever a good opportunity was offered I never failed to mock his religious convictions, thereby very often hurting his feelings.
I should like to know at what time of history the English Merchant Service, the great body of merchant seamen, had failed to answer the call.
Her hesitation puzzled him; he failed to trace its origin and fretted against a barrier that he felt but could not see.
He showed her the truth about himself now only as it were by accident, only when he failed to perceive that the truth would not be to her liking.
Her voice rose a little and shook as the composure which she had so long kept failed her.
His pretences failed him, and he was assailed by the bitterness of truth and of death.
Then courage failed and she hurried off with a confused nervous farewell to her friends.
Not allowing for the value of the good manners which he lacked, he failed to see that he excited any hostility or any distaste.
In spite of the resentment to which Marchmont's scorn had stung her, she understood very well how it was that her friends failed to appreciate the motives of her action.
A genuine unmistakable surprise showed itself on his face; now there was even the indignation which a reference to non-payment of debts had failed to elicit.
The one so nearly had given what he wanted, the other tantalised with the exhibition of a feeling only just short of what he hoped for, but the more merciless because it seemed not to understand by how narrow an inch it failed of his desires.
She had not failed to understand the roughness of Aunt Maria's tones, her frightened eyes and the shaking of her hands.
