All 16 Uses of
sufficient
in
Wuthering Heights
- I imagined, for a moment, that this piece of eloquence was addressed to me; and, sufficiently enraged, stepped towards the aged rascal with an intention of kicking him out of the door.†
Chpt 2
- On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into corners.†
Chpt 3 *
- A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.'†
Chpt 3
- Edgar Linton, after an inquisitive stare, collected sufficient wit to recognise her.†
Chpt 6
- 'Nonsense, I do — that's sufficient.'†
Chpt 9
- Before I recovered sufficiently to see and hear, it began to be dawn, and, Nelly, I'll tell you what I thought, and what has kept recurring and recurring till I feared for my reason.†
Chpt 12
- Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?'†
Chpt 15
- About twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights: a puny, seven-months' child; and two hours after the mother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss Heathcliff, or know Edgar.†
Chpt 16
- 'I recovered spirits sufficient to bear Joseph's eternal lectures without weeping, and to move up and down the house less with the foot of a frightened thief than formerly.†
Chpt 17
- When I reached the Heights, I explained that I had come to see everything carried on decently; and Joseph, who appeared in sufficient distress, expressed satisfaction at my presence.†
Chpt 17
- But that consideration is sufficient: he's as safe with me, and shall be tended as carefully as your master tends his own.†
Chpt 20
- Linton shivered, and glanced at her, half supplicating, half ashamed; but his cousin's patience was not sufficient to endure this enigmatical behaviour.†
Chpt 27
- He didn't cast a glance towards my companions, though they were sufficiently near for Linton's sobs to be audible; but hailing me in the almost hearty tone he assumed to none besides, and the sincerity of which I couldn't avoid doubting, he said — 'It is something to see you so near to my house, Nelly.†
Chpt 27
- He opened them suddenly, and resigned the object of dispute; but, ere she had well secured it, he seized her with the liberated hand, and, pulling her on his knee, administered with the other a shower of terrific slaps on both sides of the head, each sufficient to have fulfilled his threat, had she been able to fall.'†
Chpt 27
- 'No, no,' he replied, coolly; 'you'll leave sufficient behind to cover your debts, if you fail to return: I'm not in such a hurry.†
Chpt 31
- He had an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings, choosing rather to absent himself; and eating once in twenty-four hours seemed sufficient sustenance for him.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)