All 7 Uses of
sufficient
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- In fact, my mother had been weaned at three months old, that the babe of the mistress might obtain sufficient food.†
Chpt 1 *sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- This is sufficient to satisfy him.†
Chpt 13
- I was thankful when there came a day sufficiently mild for me to wrap myself up and sit at the loophole to watch the passers by.†
Chpt 21sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- The same was offered to me, but I declined to accept it, telling them that my grandmother had given me sufficient to pay my expenses to the end of my journey.†
Chpt 31sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Perhaps they expected to return to the south some day; and Ellen's knowledge was quite sufficient for a slave's condition.†
Chpt 32
- Of course they lived in the most primitive manner; it could not be otherwise, where a woman's wages for an entire day were not sufficient to buy a pound of meat.†
Chpt 37
- During the two years we had lived together I had often resolved to tell her something about her father; but I had never been able to muster sufficient courage.†
Chpt 39