... fair means failing... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete」
..."Breath is failing my breast!" said Don Fernando in avery weak voice...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
... “I will deliver her to you safe and sound,” said he, “and, failing that, I will make her queen...
Anthony Hope 「The Prisoner of Zenda」
...Behind the cage Tarzan adjusted the lion's skin about him, just as hehad upon that memorable occasion when the apes of Kerchak, failing topierce his disguise, had all but slain him...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
...“After a combat of two hours and a half, the Griquas, finding their ammunition failing, determined, at great risk, to charge the whole body...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...—Got under way, and went down the river about three miles, when, the wind failing, we anchored...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...A free colored woman, who washed for the family, was suspected of knowing something of her going, but they failing to get aught out of her, she was discharged...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...Jones, who was the principal agent for the Canada Company; but failing to fulfil his agreement, regarding the payment for a large tract of land, it so exasperated Mr...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
... He himself formerly possessed a herd of such crossed cattle, and all were perfectly fertile; so much so, that he cannot remember even a single cow failing to calve...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
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