The whole history of the case adds one to the thousand instances of the miserable failures men make who seek by the indulgence of their own caprices to obstruct the decrees of Providence.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
I had served on two of his expeditions without pay; I had watched his successes and his failures; I had admired his strong qualities, and I had shivered with the shocks of his wrongdoings.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
He has had successes, failures, joys, sorrows, and experienced the passions, the problems, the difficulties you have experienced.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter