All 23 Uses of
sufficient
in
The Mayor of Casterbridge
- At the upper end stood a stove, containing a charcoal fire, over which hung a large three-legged crock, sufficiently polished round the rim to show that it was made of bell-metal.†
Chpt 1sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- A glance was sufficient to inform the eye that this was Susan Henchard's grown-up daughter.†
Chpt 3sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Having sufficiently rested they proceeded on their way at evenfall.†
Chpt 4sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- They came to a grizzled church, whose massive square tower rose unbroken into the darkening sky, the lower parts being illuminated by the nearest lamps sufficiently to show how completely the mortar from the joints of the stonework had been nibbled out by time and weather, which had planted in the crevices thus made little tufts of stone-crop and grass almost as far up as the very battlements.†
Chpt 4
- 'Twas afore he came to Casterbridge," Solomon Longways replied with terminative emphasis, as if the fact of his ignorance of Mrs. Henchard were sufficient to deprive her history of all interest.†
Chpt 5sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- The interruption was sufficient to compel the Mayor to notice it.†
Chpt 5
- But I should like to have it proved; and of course you don't care to tell the steps of the process sufficiently for me to do that, without my paying ye well for't first.
Chpt 7 *sufficiently = adequately (in enough detail)
- "These few grains will be sufficient to show ye with," came in the young fellow's voice; and after a pause, during which some operation seemed to be intently watched by them both, he exclaimed, "There, now, do you taste that."†
Chpt 7sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- The fact that he had met her at the Three Mariners was insufficient to account for it, since on the occasions on which she had entered his room he had never raised his eyes.†
Chpt 14insufficient = not adequate (not enough)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insufficient means not and reverses the meaning of sufficient. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- The Casterbridge doctors must have pined away for want of sufficient nourishment but for the configuration of the landscape on the north-eastern side.†
Chpt 19sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Indeed, her present position was so different from that of the young woman of Henchard's story as of itself to be sufficient to blind him absolutely to her identity.†
Chpt 26
- The testimonials you showed me when you first tried for't are sufficient.†
Chpt 26
- He had purchased in so depressed a market that the present moderate stiffness of prices was sufficient to pile for him a large heap of gold where a little one had been.†
Chpt 27
- This disappointed him, for he had been sufficiently disturbed by what the man had said to wish to speak to her more closely.†
Chpt 27sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- He became so absorbed in the circumstance that he scarcely had sufficient knowledge of what he was doing to think of helping her up beside him.†
Chpt 29sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- She was so alarmed at his silence that she murmured something about lending him sufficient money to tide over the perilous fortnight.†
Chpt 29
- This was sufficient.†
Chpt 35
- "Yes," said Henchard shortly, though little dreaming of Jopp's complicity in the night's harlequinade, and raising his eyes just sufficiently to observe that Jopp's face was lined with anxiety.†
Chpt 40sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- For Elizabeth's sake the former had fettered his pride sufficiently to accept the small seed and root business which some of the Town Council, headed by Farfrae, had purchased to afford him a new opening.†
Chpt 42
- The busy time of the seed trade was over, and the quiet weeks that preceded the hay-season had come—setting their special stamp upon Casterbridge by thronging the market with wood rakes, new waggons in yellow, green, and red, formidable scythes, and pitchforks of prong sufficient to skewer up a small family.†
Chpt 42sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- And, Mr. Farfrae, as you provide so much, and houseroom, and all that, I'll do my part in the drinkables, and see to the rum and schiedam—maybe a dozen jars will be sufficient?†
Chpt 43
- Among the many hindrances to such a pleading not the least was this, that he did not sufficiently value himself to lessen his sufferings by strenuous appeal or elaborate argument.†
Chpt 44sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Thither he went, and settled in lodgings in a green-shuttered cottage which had a bow-window, jutting out sufficiently to afford glimpses of a vertical strip of blue sea to any one opening the sash, and leaning forward far enough to look through a narrow lane of tall intervening houses.†
Chpt 45