All 21 Uses of
sufficient
in
Emma
- He was looked on as sufficiently belonging to the place to make his merits and prospects a kind of common concern.†
Chpt 1.1-2 *
- Emma was not sorry to have such an opportunity of survey; and walking a few yards forward, while they talked together, soon made her quick eye sufficiently acquainted with Mr. Robert Martin.†
Chpt 1.3-4
- He had a comfortable home for her, and Emma imagined a very sufficient income; for though the vicarage of Highbury was not large, he was known to have some independent property; and she thought very highly of him as a good-humoured, well-meaning, respectable young man, without any deficiency of useful understanding or knowledge of the world.†
Chpt 1.3-4
- "—and "Dear Miss Woodhouse," was all that Harriet, with many tender embraces could articulate at first; but when they did arrive at something more like conversation, it was sufficiently clear to her friend that she saw, felt, anticipated, and remembered just as she ought.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- And in this style he talked on for some time very properly, not much attending to any answer, but altogether sufficiently awake to the terror of a bad sore throat; and Emma was quite in charity with him.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- There was always sufficient reason for such an attention; Mrs. and Miss Bates loved to be called on, and she knew she was considered by the very few who presumed ever to see imperfection in her, as rather negligent in that respect, and as not contributing what she ought to the stock of their scanty comforts.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- He might be superseded by another; he certainly would indeed; nothing could be clearer; even a Robert Martin would have been sufficient; but nothing else, she feared, would cure her.†
Chpt 2.3-4
- He was delighted with every thing; admired Hartfield sufficiently for Mr. Woodhouse's ear; and when their going farther was resolved on, confessed his wish to be made acquainted with the whole village, and found matter of commendation and interest much oftener than Emma could have supposed.†
Chpt 2.5-6
- Donwell and Randalls had received their invitation, and none had come for her father and herself; and Mrs. Weston's accounting for it with "I suppose they will not take the liberty with you; they know you do not dine out," was not quite sufficient.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- He contrived that she should be seated by him; and was sufficiently employed in looking out the best baked apple for her, and trying to make her help or advise him in his work, till Jane Fairfax was quite ready to sit down to the pianoforte again.†
Chpt 2.9-10
- Every door was now closed, the passage plan given up, and the first scheme of dancing only in the room they were in resorted to again; and with such good-will on Frank Churchill's part, that the space which a quarter of an hour before had been deemed barely sufficient for five couple, was now endeavoured to be made out quite enough for ten.†
Chpt 2.11-12
- They are very important—and sorry I am that you cannot feel them sufficiently to act upon them.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- Emma made as slight a reply as she could; but it was fully sufficient for Mrs. Elton, who only wanted to be talking herself.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- She was to convey Harriet, and they drove to the Crown in good time, the Randalls party just sufficiently before them.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- —About a fortnight after the alarm, they came to a sufficient explanation, and quite undesignedly.†
Chpt 3.3-4
- —She felt that she had been risking her friend's happiness on most insufficient grounds.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- A few minutes were sufficient for making her acquainted with her own heart.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- —My plea of concealing the truth she did not think sufficient.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- She had no difficulty in procuring Isabella's invitation; and she was fortunate in having a sufficient reason for asking it, without resorting to invention.†
Chpt 3.15-16
- —No; she heard nothing but the instant reply of, "Beg her to walk up;"—and a moment afterwards she was met on the stairs by Jane herself, coming eagerly forward, as if no other reception of her were felt sufficient.†
Chpt 3.15-16
- As soon as Mrs. Weston was sufficiently recovered to admit Mr. Woodhouse's visits, Emma having it in view that her gentle reasonings should be employed in the cause, resolved first to announce it at home, and then at Randalls.†
Chpt 3.17-18
Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)