All 9 Uses of
sufficient
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- A woman of orderly and industrious appearance rose from her knees in a corner, with sufficient haste and trepidation to show that she was the person referred to.†
Chpt 2.1
- Allowing for my learned friend's appearance being careless and slovenly if not debauched, they were sufficiently like each other to surprise, not only the witness, but everybody present, when they were thus brought into comparison.†
Chpt 2.3
- If I knew which rascal threw at the carriage, and if that brigand were sufficiently near it, he should be crushed under the wheels.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- Up the broad flight of shallow steps, Monsieur the Marquis, flambeau preceded, went from his carriage, sufficiently disturbing the darkness to elicit loud remonstrance from an owl in the roof of the great pile of stable building away among the trees.†
Chpt 2.9
- "And so," said Mr. Lorry, who could not sufficiently admire the bride, and who had been moving round her to take in every point of her quiet, pretty dress; "and so it was for this, my sweet Lucie, that I brought you across the Channel, such a baby!†
Chpt 2.18
- If the impression were not produced by a real corresponding and sufficient cause, how came he, Jarvis Lorry, there?†
Chpt 2.19
- Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as of most other sauce to wretched bread.†
Chpt 2.22
- His indifference to fire was sufficiently remarkable to elicit a word of remonstrance from Mr. Lorry; his boot was still upon the hot embers of the flaming log, when it had broken under the weight of his foot.†
Chpt 3.9
- It was nothing to her, that his wife was to be made a widow and his daughter an orphan; that was insufficient punishment, because they were her natural enemies and her prey, and as such had no right to live.†
Chpt 3.14
Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)