Nor had he failed once to pay his week's board into Mary's hand.

They'd both failed once at the most important of relationships, marriage.

And having failed once, it was unlikely he would stop.

The program has a young man who once failed a course because he lost his book and didn't know how to go about replacing it.

His mouth opened and closed, words for once failing him.

Equipment that had failed once for no apparent reason could do so again.

One might fail once in four or five centuries: certainly no more often.

A receiver does fail once in a great while, you know.

In other words, they did not fully trust these two agents, who had failed once to get the information.

He attempted to rise, failed once, made it the next time.