All 18 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.†
Chpt Pref.
- His height and breadth would have been sufficient to make his presence imposing, had they been exhibited with due consideration.†
Chpt 1-3
- The sympathetic man still looked the other way, and wondered when she would recover coolness sufficient to justify him in facing her again.†
Chpt 1-3
- Oak found that the value of stock, plant, and implements which were really his own would be about sufficient to pay his debts, leaving himself a free man with the clothes he stood up in, and nothing more.†
Chpt 4-6
- "Knowed yer grandfather for years and years!" continued the maltster, the words coming forth of their own accord as if the momentum previously imparted had been sufficient.†
Chpt 7-9
- He was close to her doors: his standing was sufficient: his qualities were even supererogatory.†
Chpt 19-21
- Her emblazoned fault was to be too pronounced in her objections, and not sufficiently overt in her likings.†
Chpt 22-24
- The pale lustre yet hanging in the north-western heaven was sufficient to show that a sprig of ivy had grown from the wall across the door to a length of more than a foot, delicately tying the panel to the stone jamb.†
Chpt 28-30
- He looked up at the sound of her pit-pat, and his changed appearance sufficiently denoted to her the depth and strength of the feelings paralyzed by her letter.†
Chpt 31-33
- Troy started visibly at the sound of the voice; yet he seemed to recover presence of mind sufficient to prevent himself from giving way to his impulse to suddenly turn and face her.†
Chpt 37-39
- That she had never, by look, word, or sign, encouraged a man to approach her—that she had felt herself sufficient to herself, and had in the independence of her girlish heart fancied there was a certain degradation in renouncing the simplicity of a maiden existence to become the humbler half of an indifferent matrimonial whole—were facts now bitterly remembered.†
Chpt 40-42
- She was not a woman who could hope on without good materials for the process, differing thus from the less far-sighted and energetic, though more petted ones of the sex, with whom hope goes on as a sort of clockwork which the merest food and shelter are sufficient to wind up; and perceiving clearly that her mistake had been a fatal one, she accepted her position, and waited coldly for the end.†
Chpt 46-48
- But by the time that he could reach an elevation sufficiently great to command a view of the sea beyond, dusk had set in, and nothing further was to be seen.†
Chpt 46-48
- A few months were sufficient to give him a distaste for this kind of life.
Chpt 49-51 *sufficient = adequate without being abundant
- He left the room, and when he thought she might be sufficiently composed sent one of the maids to her.†
Chpt 52-54
- He came in the afternoon, and his face, as the kiln glow shone upon it, told the tale sufficiently well.†
Chpt 55-57
- Facts elicited previous to the trial had pointed strongly in the same direction, but they had not been of sufficient weight to lead to an order for an examination into the state of Boldwood's mind.†
Chpt 55-57
- She was bewildered too by the prospect of having to rely on her own resources again: it seemed to herself that she never could again acquire energy sufficient to go to market, barter, and sell.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)