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Example sentences for "never failed"

  • He never failed to confirm the sentences of death passed by courts-martial on deserters.

  • He never failed to detect the key-point of a position, or to make the best use of the ground.

  • In my own private communications with him, which were frequent, he never failed to give proofs of a similar disposition.

  • He was constant in his attendance in Parliament whenever the question was brought forward; and he never failed to exert his powerful eloquence in its favour.

  • He fully understood that his knowledge would give him a power which a man of less information could not obtain, and he never failed to use that knowledge as a power.

  • He never failed to make a single delivery of stores, or to be absent from his post on the beach at Whitehall one single day during the whole three months.

  • The latter especially excited his uncompromising hostility, and he never failed to attack their doctrines with all his forces wherever he encountered them.

  • In the Homeric ages each one received his share of meat and wine,[XXXIV-3] and the man who at that epoch piqued himself on his knowledge of the science of life, never failed to offer his neighbour a part of his dinner.

  • The atrocious Vedius Pollio, who understood these matters, never failed to have sea-eels served him after their odious repast, that he might have the pleasure of eating some part of the body of his victim.

  • The lunar observation, which I never failed to take every opportunity, and which Lieutenant Bradley also paid constant attention to, gave me reason to think, by their near agreement with the watch, that it continued to go well.

  • When Socrates, on the other hand, found any who soothe themselves up in the belief that they are well instructed, and who boast of their own sufficiency, he never failed to chastise the vanity of such persons.

  • He never failed to be at the hall, or courts of justice, at the usual hour of assembling there, and the rest of the day he was at the places where the greatest companies generally met.

  • This promise he never failed to keep, and four of us invariably slept in the lock-up.

  • During the remainder of the time I served I never failed to use this canteen whenever I was punished, and the fact was never found out.

  • They found out that he never failed them.

  • Mrs. Macartney found that Meg never slighted anything, never failed in a task, and never forgot one, so she gave her plenty to do.

  • I believe I never failed him in this part, though in so many of our enterprises and projects I was false as water through my temperamental love of backing out of any undertaking.

  • He made no great show of sympathy with people in their anxieties, but it never failed, and at a time when I lay sick for many weeks his letters were of comfort to those who feared I might not rise again.

  • He held my hand, and looked into my eyes with the sunny kindness which never failed me, worthy or unworthy; and I went away to bed.

  • Though his labor consisted in dealing with the most familiar statements, yet he never failed to shed upon his theme a new and diviner light, and to invest it with rare and universal interest.

  • This was a markedly prominent feature in his feelings; and children, too, never failed to make friends with him at once.

  • By an excellent talent for composing differences and dissensions, he never failed to reconcile persons at variance, and to appease all seditions that happened in his time, either at Fiesoli, or at Florence.

  • She was humble, obedient, and meek; never failed of assisting with her mother at the daily performance of the whole church office; besides spending many hours on her knees in private devotion in her closet.

  • The saint often met with injurious treatment, and very reviling words, which he ever repaid with such meekness and beneficence as never failed to gain his very enemies.

  • Pious meditation, and the study of the holy scripture, were his beloved entertainments: and he never failed to carry about him that excellent book, called the Spiritual Combat.

  • I could go straight to the very spot to-day, and often as I passed over that line afterwards I never failed to see that light-brown package lying upon the bank.

  • The betrayal of Wallace was his trump card which never failed to cause our little hearts to sob, a complete breakdown being the invariable result.

  • His looms sank greatly in value, and it became necessary for that power which never failed in any emergency--my mother--to step forward and endeavor to repair the family fortune.

  • He made a success of it--he never failed to do that in any mining or mechanical operation he undertook--and he soon cleared the cost of the works.

  • This pest of a woman,” said a maid servant who followed, “never failed to take advantage of every opportunity, and yet entertained an extreme jealousy of my master and me.

  • His way of placing the chair proclaimed that he never failed to do all that became a gentleman, no matter how neglectful emotional people might sometimes become.

  • In the shadows of the room she had not seen him distinctly until now, and the sight of his trouble touched her as it never failed to do even when she believed it to be imaginary.

  • Of course he did not expect a brief, until his round was trodden well; but he never failed to be in court; and his pleasant temper and obliging ways soon began to win him friends.

  • This noble view expanded always the great heart of the Rector; and he never failed to point out clearly the boundary-line of his parish.

  • And he never failed to do so--partly through inspiration of other divines, but mainly by summing up all the sins of his parish, and then forgiving them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    divine love; never can; never failed; never fails; never had; never heard; never hearn; never leave; never left; never loved; never marry; never more; never occurred; never occurs; never once; never seed; never should; never take; never tell; never trust; never wanted; never would; never would cry old; never wrote; take pity; wicked life