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Definition
adequate (enough — often without being more than is needed)
- I do not know what is untried and afterward, But I know it will in its turn prove sufficient, and cannot fail.Book 3 — Song of Myself (84% in)
- Now I will dismiss myself from impassive women, I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those women that are warm-blooded and sufficient for me, I see that they understand me and do not deny me, I see that they are worthy of me, I will be the robust husband of those women.Book 4 — CHILDREN OF ADAM (57% in)
- To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.Book 4 — CHILDREN OF ADAM (79% in)
- The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.Book 7 — Song of the Open Road (3% in)
- Appearances, now or henceforth, indicate what you are, You necessary film, continue to envelop the soul, About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas, Thrive, cities—bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers, Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more spiritual, Keep your places, objects than which none else is more lasting.Book 8 — Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (94% in)
- A breed whose proof is in time and deeds, What we are we are, nativity is answer enough to objections, We wield ourselves as a weapon is wielded, We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves, We are executive in ourselves, we are sufficient in the variety of ourselves, We are the most beautiful to ourselves and in ourselves, We stand self-pois'd in the middle, branching thence over the world, From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn.Book 23 — By Blue Ontario's Shore.... (4% in)
- The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table, The mother with mild words, clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by, The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger'd, unjust, The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure, The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture, the yearning and swelling heart, Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the...Book 24 — AUTUMN RIVULETS (19% in)
- The preparations have every one been justified, The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.Book 29 — To Think of Time (66% in)
- Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me, Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me, I read the promise and patiently wait.Book 32 — FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT (17% in)
- Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my city is that word from of old, Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb, Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded, Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies, Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown,...Book 32 — FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT (49% in)
There are no more uses of "sufficient" in Leaves of Grass.
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