All 45 Uses of
sufficient
in
Bleak House
- CHAPTER V A Morning Adventure Although the morning was raw, and although the fog still seemed heavy—I say seemed, for the windows were so encrusted with dirt that they would have made midsummer sunshine dim—I was sufficiently forewarned of the discomfort within doors at that early hour and sufficiently curious about London to think it a good idea on the part of Miss Jellyby when she proposed that we should go out for a walk.†
Chpt 4-6
- CHAPTER V A Morning Adventure Although the morning was raw, and although the fog still seemed heavy—I say seemed, for the windows were so encrusted with dirt that they would have made midsummer sunshine dim—I was sufficiently forewarned of the discomfort within doors at that early hour and sufficiently curious about London to think it a good idea on the part of Miss Jellyby when she proposed that we should go out for a walk.†
Chpt 4-6
- When I am here, I have sufficient possession of it and have neither trouble, cost, nor responsibility.†
Chpt 4-6
- I was apprehensive that his illness might be of a dangerous kind, but of course I begged her to be quiet and not disturb any one and collected myself, as I followed her quickly upstairs, sufficiently to consider what were the best remedies to be applied if it should prove to be a fit.†
Chpt 4-6
- I was sufficiently engaged during the remainder of the evening in taking my first lesson in backgammon from Mr. Jarndyce, who was very fond of the game and from whom I wished of course to learn it as quickly as I could in order that I might be of the very small use of being able to play when he had no better adversary.†
Chpt 4-6
- Mrs. Rouncewell might have been sufficiently assured by hearing the rain, but that she is rather deaf, which nothing will induce her to believe.†
Chpt 7-9
- But he still remains so absorbed by the portrait that he stands immovable before it until the young gardener has closed the shutters, when he comes out of the room in a dazed state that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest and follows into the succeeding rooms with a confused stare, as if he were looking everywhere for Lady Dedlock again.†
Chpt 7-9
- In the question how the trusts under that will are to be administered, the fortune left by the will is squandered away; the legatees under the will are reduced to such a miserable condition that they would be sufficiently punished if they had committed an enormous crime in having money left them, and the will itself is made a dead letter.†
Chpt 7-9
- I am not sufficiently acquainted with such subjects to know whether it is at all remarkable
Chpt 7-9 *sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- I'm sure of it—that's quite sufficient."†
Chpt 7-9
- In case you should think better at any time, however distant—THAT'S no consequence, for my feelings can never alter—of anything I have said, particularly what might I not do, Mr. William Guppy, eighty-seven, Penton Place, or if removed, or dead (of blighted hopes or anything of that sort), care of Mrs. Guppy, three hundred and two, Old Street Road, will be sufficient."†
Chpt 7-9
- A thick and dingy Turkey-carpet muffles the floor where he sits, attended by two candles in old-fashioned silver candlesticks that give a very insufficient light to his large room.†
Chpt 10-12
- Still, although I had no doubt that they were very beautiful, and very improving, and very sufficient for a great many purposes of life, and always remembered all through life, I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much.†
Chpt 13-15
- Now, with reference to placing Mr. Richard with some sufficiently eminent practitioner.†
Chpt 13-15
- We have only, in the first place, to discover a sufficiently eligible practitioner; and as soon as we make our want—and shall I add, our ability to pay a premium?†
Chpt 13-15
- All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday.†
Chpt 13-15
- As I trusted that I might have sufficient influence with Miss Jellyby to prevent her taking any very rash step if I fully accepted the confidence she was so willing to place in me, poor girl, I proposed that she and I and Peepy should go to the academy and afterwards meet my guardian and Ada at Miss Flite's, whose name I now learnt for the first time.†
Chpt 13-15
- I found the academy established in a sufficiently dingy house at the corner of an archway, with busts in all the staircase windows.†
Chpt 13-15
- "You have sufficient reason, I dare say," said Mr. Jarndyce, "for being chafed and irritated—"†
Chpt 13-15
- Her face is veiled, and still she sufficiently betrays herself to make more than one of those who pass her look round sharply.†
Chpt 16-18
- "I am aware of the circumstances," returned my guardian with a smile, "and am sufficiently obliged."†
Chpt 16-18
- Grandfather looks at the cushion but has not sufficiently recovered his late exertion.†
Chpt 19-21
- Some time elapses in the present instance before the old gentleman is sufficiently cool to resume his discourse, and even then he mixes it up with several edifying expletives addressed to the unconscious partner of his bosom, who holds communication with nothing on earth but the trivets.†
Chpt 19-21
- Two good names would be sufficient for my friend in the city.†
Chpt 19-21
- But on Mr. Tulkinghorn's coming into the room, the veil is raised and a sufficiently good-looking Frenchwoman is revealed, though her expression is something of the intensest.†
Chpt 22-24
- From mere force of habit, Mr. Chadband in saying "My friends!" has rested his eye on Mr. Snagsby and proceeds to make that ill-starred stationer, already sufficiently confused, the immediate recipient of his discourse.†
Chpt 25-27
- …loosened by any less coercive instrument than an iron rake or a curry-comb—as he rubs, and puffs, and polishes, and blows, turning his head from side to side the more conveniently to excoriate his throat, and standing with his body well bent forward to keep the wet from his martial legs, Phil, on his knees lighting a fire, looks round as if it were enough washing for him to see all that done, and sufficient renovation for one day to take in the superfluous health his master throws off.†
Chpt 25-27
- "I supposed, sergeant," Mr. Tulkinghorn resumes as he leans on one side of his chair and crosses his legs, "that Mr. Smallweed might have sufficiently explained the matter.†
Chpt 25-27
- That's sufficient.†
Chpt 25-27
- Miss Volumnia, displaying in early life a pretty talent for cutting ornaments out of coloured paper, and also for singing to the guitar in the Spanish tongue, and propounding French conundrums in country houses, passed the twenty years of her existence between twenty and forty in a sufficiently agreeable manner.†
Chpt 28-30
- The alacrity with which Charley brought my bonnet and veil, and having dressed me, quaintly pinned herself into her warm shawl and made herself look like a little old woman, sufficiently expressed her readiness.†
Chpt 31-33
- Inside the coach, and consequently not so manifest to the multitude, though sufficiently so to the two friends, for the coach stops almost at their feet, are the venerable Mr. Smallweed and Mrs. Smallweed, accompanied by their granddaughter Judy.†
Chpt 31-33
- My poor little visitor made me a present of the account, and when as the evening began to close in she rose to take her leave, lest she should miss the coach by which she was to return, she was still full of the shipwreck, which I had not yet sufficiently composed myself to understand in all its details.†
Chpt 34-36
- Therefore I make the entreaty I have now preferred, and I hope you will have sufficient consideration for me to accede to it.†
Chpt 37-39
- The struggle in Mr. Guppy's breast and the numerous oscillations it occasioned him between his mother's door and us were sufficiently conspicuous in the windy street (particularly as his hair wanted cutting) to make us hurry away.†
Chpt 37-39
- The shutters are more or less closed all over the house, and the ground-floor is sufficiently dark to require candles.†
Chpt 37-39
- My reasons are not of a personal nature at all, but they are amply sufficient for myself.†
Chpt 37-39
- It appears impossible for mademoiselle to roll the letter "r" sufficiently in this word, notwithstanding that she assists her energetic delivery by clenching both her hands and setting all her teeth.†
Chpt 40-42
- He had a reason for going away, though it was an insufficient one.†
Chpt 46-48
- But he has sufficient presence of mind to conduct his visitor into the little counting-house and to shut the door.†
Chpt 46-48
- But even this disinterestedness was attended with no inconsiderable cost, to my knowledge, for before Peepy was sufficiently decorated to walk hand in hand with the professor of deportment, he had to be newly dressed, at the expense of Caddy and her husband, from top to toe.†
Chpt 49-51
- Something or nothing, I have acted up to Miss Summerson's wishes in letting things alone and in undoing what I had begun to do, as far as possible; that's sufficient for me.†
Chpt 55-57
- Cold, wet, and fatigue are sufficient causes for my being found dead, but I shall die of others, though I suffer from these.†
Chpt 58-60
- "I have no capital myself, but my mother has a little property which takes the form of an annuity"—here Mr. Guppy's mother rolled her head as if she never could sufficiently enjoy the observation, and put her handkerchief to her mouth, and again winked at me—"and a few pounds for expenses out of pocket in conducting business will never be wanting, free of interest, which is an advantage, you know," said Mr. Guppy feelingly.†
Chpt 64-65
- As I had sufficient hopes of the will to be in a flutter about it, Allan and I agreed to go down to the court that morning.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)