All 13 Uses of
sufficient
in
Great Expectations
- And I soon found myself getting heavily bumped from behind in the nape of the neck and the small of the back, and having my face ignominiously shoved against the kitchen wall, because I did not answer those questions at sufficient length.†
Chpt 9
- If only Estella had come to be a spectator of our proceedings, I should have felt sufficiently discontented; but as she brought with her the three ladies and the gentleman whom I had seen below, I didn't know what to do.†
Chpt 11
- If the villain had stopped here, his case would have been sufficiently awful, but he blackened his guilt by proceeding to take me into custody, with a right of patronage that left all his former criminality far behind.†
Chpt 13
- Biddy sat quietly sewing, shedding no more tears, and while I looked at her and thought about it all, it occurred to me that perhaps I had not been sufficiently grateful to Biddy.†
Chpt 17
- And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.†
Chpt 17
- There is already lodged in my hands a sum of money amply sufficient for your suitable education and maintenance.†
Chpt 18 *
- As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him in the neighboring streets; but he was gone.†
Chpt 27
- Still, the coincidence of our being together on the coach, was sufficiently strange to fill me with a dread that some other coincidence might at any moment connect me, in his hearing, with my name.†
Chpt 28
- In one or two instances there was a difficulty respecting the raising of fees, and then Mr. Wemmick, backing as far as possible from the insufficient money produced, said, "it's no use, my boy.†
Chpt 32
- Under its influence (and perhaps to make up for the want of the softer feeling) I was seized with a violent indignation against the assailant from whom she had suffered so much; and I felt that on sufficient proof I could have revengefully pursued Orlick, or any one else, to the last extremity.†
Chpt 35
- And now I began to wonder at myself for being in the coach, and to doubt whether I had sufficient reason for being there, and to consider whether I should get out presently and go back, and to argue against ever heeding an anonymous communication, and, in short, to pass through all those phases of contradiction and indecision to which I suppose very few hurried people are strangers.†
Chpt 52
- The accuracy of these recitals was sufficiently obvious to me, to give me great confidence in Joe's information.†
Chpt 57
- I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore—yes, I do well.†
Chpt 59
Definition:
-
(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)