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Meanings of prove a failure in English

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Usage of prove a failure in English
1
Were the invention to prove a failure-butthere was small hope of this.
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2
If it prove a failure, there is plenty of time to try over again.
Plays by August Strindberg, Second series
3
I want to work as you are working, even if I prove a failure.
There was a King in Egypt
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On the contrary, if they were weak and poor, the hops would prove a failure.
Round About a Great Estate
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Any attempt to describe it must prove a failure.
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
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He had heard him repeat several times that the Coup d'État must prove a failure.
The Fortune of the Rougons
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Unless these obligations are carefully regarded the community life will be sure to prove a failure.
The True Citizen: How to Become One
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Otherwise, your work will prove a failure.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
9
Was this meeting, on which they had so greatly depended, destined to prove a failure, after all?
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
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Would not any search that was based upon such vague indications as these be sure to prove a failure?
Ticket No. "9672"
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Should he enter it before the latter had got near, the chances were that their ambuscade would prove a failure.
The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico
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Furthermore, he was convinced that he was without literary ability and that a book by him would prove a failure.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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The world will not be destroyed; Christianity will not prove a failure,-butnew forces will arise over the old, and prevail.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04: Imperial Antiquity
14
Like so many other promises, this also may prove a failure, though I have reason to believe that it will not.
The Underground Railroad / A Record of Facts, Authentic Narrativ...
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The experiment might again prove a failure, and the water rise yet higher in the cone; but the risk must be run.
Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
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In this way, should his mission prove a failure, as far as the widow was concerned, he would not be out much.
The Young Treasure Hunter; Or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska
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