Sentence examples for courage failed from inspiring English sources

But when she saw the poster above the grain shop that said "One child too many: a lifetime of punishments!" her courage failed her.

Other times, he seemed full of regret, explaining his failure to surrender or escape as his way of fulfilling "a moral obligation to stay" with the colonel before adding, "My courage failed me".

The disappointments of Nasa, the failure to return to the moon, the absence of bases on Mars – it seems that humanity's appetite for new worlds has dwindled, our courage failed.

But their courage failed them and they decided they'd go into the Wimpy: "It'll be alright, and it might not be them anyway, and there's no need to panic".

Once its courage fails, you wait impatiently for its inevitably tidy windup.

It shames me to say it — my courage fails when I try to pray that you might abide in it.

She confides that she wants to flee her country and Peter promises to help - but his courage fails him and he abandons her.

That might work if you're feeling really timid but it can also backfire in that that's the only thing you'll end up asking, as your courage fails you.

COURAGE rarely failed Bärbel Bohley.

Now, with the Fukushima plant spewing radioactivity, Mrs Merkel's courage has failed.

We examined it suspiciously for a while, and our courage having failed us, we ate a prawn.