All 19 Uses of
sufficient
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.†
Chpt 1
- Chapter 3 Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley.†
Chpt 3
- The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic.†
Chpt 4 *
- They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.†
Chpt 6
- Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion.†
Chpt 10
- Having now a good house and a very sufficient income, he intended to marry; and in seeking a reconciliation with the Longbourn family he had a wife in view, as he meant to choose one of the daughters, if he found them as handsome and amiable as they were represented by common report.†
Chpt 15
- Jane met her with a smile of such sweet complacency, a glow of such happy expression, as sufficiently marked how well she was satisfied with the occurrences of the evening.†
Chpt 18
- This he considered sufficient encouragement; and the avowal of all that he felt, and had long felt for her, immediately followed.†
Chpt 34
- If I have wounded your sister's feelings, it was unknowingly done and though the motives which governed me may to you very naturally appear insufficient, I have not yet learnt to condemn them.†
Chpt 35
- He had some intention, he added, of studying law, and I must be aware that the interest of one thousand pounds would be a very insufficient support therein.†
Chpt 35
- From herself to Jane—from Jane to Bingley, her thoughts were in a line which soon brought to her recollection that Mr. Darcy's explanation there had appeared very insufficient, and she read it again.†
Chpt 36
- Words were insufficient for the elevation of his feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.†
Chpt 38
- It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire, nor of any of the remarkable places through which their route thither lay; Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenilworth, Birmingham, etc. are sufficiently known.†
Chpt 42
- Had his first appearance, or his resemblance to the picture they had just been examining, been insufficient to assure the other two that they now saw Mr. Darcy, the gardener's expression of surprise, on beholding his master, must immediately have told it.†
Chpt 43
- For such an attachment as this she might have sufficient charms; and though she did not suppose Lydia to be deliberately engaging in an elopement without the intention of marriage, she had no difficulty in believing that neither her virtue nor her understanding would preserve her from falling an easy prey.†
Chpt 46
- But it was a hope shortly checked by other considerations, and she soon felt that even her vanity was insufficient, when required to depend on his affection for her —for a woman who had already refused him—as able to overcome a sentiment so natural as abhorrence against relationship with Wickham.†
Chpt 52
- You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.†
Chpt 58
- Four sides of paper were insufficient to contain all her delight, and all her earnest desire of being loved by her sister.†
Chpt 60
- It had always been evident to her that such an income as theirs, under the direction of two persons so extravagant in their wants, and heedless of the future, must be very insufficient to their support; and whenever they changed their quarters, either Jane or herself were sure of being applied to for some little assistance towards discharging their bills.†
Chpt 61
Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)