"failed" in the Big Book

Ominous warning—which I failed to heed.

Potential alcoholic that I was, I nearly failed my law course.

I failed to persuade my broker friends to send me out looking over factories and managements, but my wife and I decided to go anyway.

His human will had failed.

For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his

This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.

Every attempt failed.

All went well for a time, but he failed to enlarge his spiritual life.

Our sound reasoning failed to hold us in check.

I reasoned I was not so far advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.

Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.

Had not all efforts at flight failed before?

Wasn’t it because self-reliance failed us?

Perhaps your story will help him see where he has failed to practice the very precepts he knows so well.

One of our Fellowship failed entirely with his first half dozen prospects.

These attempts to do the impossible have always failed.

While grateful that he drinks no more, they may not like the idea that God has accomplished the miracle where they failed.

I wanted to throw up my hands in discouragement, for I saw that I had failed to help my banker friend understand.