failure to thrive

In short, we found ways to couch messages of failure or inadequacy.

Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

That which is called nasality is caused by the failure of the tone to reach freely the anterior cavities of the nares.

All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.