All 37 Uses of
sufficient
in
The Swiss Family Robinson
- We immediately searched about for what would answer the purpose, and fortunately got hold of a number of empty flasks and tin canisters, which we connected two and two together so as to form floats sufficiently buoyant to support a person in the water, and my wife and young sons each willingly put one on.†
Chpt 1sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- I chose those which had flowered, knowing that they were harder, and having cut a sufficient quantity of these, I selected one or two of the tallest canes I could find to assist me in measuring the height of the tree.†
Chpt 3sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- It was admirably suited to our purpose; the branches were very strong and so closely interwoven that no beams would be required to form a flooring, but when some of the boughs were lopped and cleared away, a few planks would be quite sufficient.†
Chpt 3
- 'How,' said I, 'can we thank the Giver of all these blessings, sufficiently?'†
Chpt 4sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- ' 'That would not be sufficient,' said Fritz.†
Chpt 4sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- It required our united strength to get the turtle hoisted on to the sledge, its weight being prodigious; we found it, indeed, with the addition of the sapling fruit-trees, quite a sufficient load.†
Chpt 5
- 'If we can collect a sufficient quantity, we will attempt bread-making.†
Chpt 5
- As my eyes became used to the dim light which entered the compartment through a chink or crevice here and there, I perceived how carefully every part of the pinnace was arranged and marked with numbers, so that if only I could bestow sufficient time on the work, and contrive space in which to execute it, I might reasonably hope for success.†
Chpt 6
- The natives, who first obtained it, used it to form bottles by smearing earthen flasks with repeated coatings of the gum when just fresh from the trees, and when hardened and sufficiently thick, they broke the mold, shook out the fragments, and hung the bottles in the smoke, when they became firmer, and of a dark color.†
Chpt 7sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- This we skimmed off and placed in a separate pot by the fire, ready for use, repeating the operation several times, until we had collected sufficient liquid wax for our purpose.†
Chpt 7sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- As it was I considered that one jackal was, with our young bull, quite sufficient an addition to our livestock.†
Chpt 7
- Franz and his mother had collected dry wood, of which a huge heap now stood before the tent sufficient to keep up a fire all the rest of the time we should stay on the spot.†
Chpt 7
- 'Brave little boy,' said I. 'Well, now, if the trunk be sufficiently hollow to contain a swarm of bees, it may be for all we can tell hollow the greater part of its length, for like the willow in our own country it might draw all its nourishment through the bark, and in spite of its real unsoundness retain a flourishing appearance.'†
Chpt 8sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Layer after layer of caoutchouc I brushed over it, allowing each layer to dry before the next was put on, until at length I considered that the shoes were of sufficient thickness.†
Chpt 8sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- A dam had to be thrown across the river some way up stream, that the water might be raised to a sufficient height to run to Falconhurst.†
Chpt 8
- Our dwelling was indeed crowded: the animals and provisions below, and our beds and household goods around us, hemmed us in on every side; by degrees, by dint of patience and better packing, we obtained sufficient room to work and lie down in; by degrees, too, we became accustomed to the continual noise of the animals and the smell of the stables.†
Chpt 8
- Fritz proposed that we should hollow out a cave in the rock, and though the difficulties such an undertaking would present appeared almost insurmountable, I yet determined to make the attempt; we might not, I thought, hew out a cavern of sufficient size to serve as a room, but we might at least make a cellar for the more valuable and perishable of our stores.†
Chpt 9
- The safest way of restoring it to its original state is to subject it to the action of fire; a few handfuls of blazing hay thrown into this hole may, if the place be small, sufficiently purify the air within to allow us to enter without danger.'†
Chpt 9sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- If there is sufficient oxygen to maintain a flame, the action of the flame increases air circulation, which then brings in more oxygen.
Chpt 9 *sufficient = adequate (enough)
- The flame goes out if the oxygen supply is insufficient for its supply; in this case, it takes the fireworks to create adequate circulation.†
Chpt 9insufficient = 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 next torch is able to blaze not because the air is purified, but because the oxygen is now sufficient to feed the fire.†
Chpt 9sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- In one year millions of these fish are caught, and yet the roes of only a small number would be sufficient to supply as many fish again.'†
Chpt 9
- These weapons appeared very curious, and insufficient to the children; but their use was speedily apparent: for darkness having come upon us almost before we reached the wood, I lighted the torches, and perceived, as I expected, that every branch was thickly laden with ortolans and wild pigeons, who were roosting there in amazing numbers.†
Chpt 10insufficient = 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 noise of rustling, crackling and creaking among the branches, with horrid cries, and shrieks, and chattering, increased to a degree sufficient to make us perfectly giddy; and then out from the forest poured the whole disorderly rabble of monkeys, scrambling, springing, leaping from the trees, racing and tumbling across the grassy space towards the house; when, at once attracted by the novelties they saw, they made for the jars and bowls.†
Chpt 10sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- To this, however, I would not consent, assuring him that our fate, as a solitary family, gave him quite sufficient idea of shipwreck on an uninhabited island, and that his lively imagination must supply the rest.†
Chpt 10
- 'Driving with open mouth through the congregated shoals of these little creatures, the whale engulfs them by millions in his enormous jaws, and continues his destructive course until he has sufficiently charged his mouth with prey.†
Chpt 10sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Fortunately there was a sufficient supply of other eatables, and the fresh, delicious cocoanuts and goat's milk put everyone in good humour again.†
Chpt 11sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- I could not venture to attack with insufficient force a monstrous and formidable serpent concealed in dense thickets amidst dangerous swamps; yet it was dreadful to live in a state of blockade, cut off from all the important duties in which we were engaged, and shut up with our animals in the unnatural light of the cave, enduring constant anxiety and perturbation.†
Chpt 11insufficient = 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.
- We took great pains to coil it round a pole in the museum, arranging the head with the jaws wide open, so as to look as alarming as possible, and contriving to make eyes and tongue which were quite sufficient to represent nature; in fact, our dogs never passed the monster without growling, and must have wondered at our taste in keeping such a pet.†
Chpt 11sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- The idea delighted all hands, but my wife, who was never happy when we were on the sea, declared that our chances of drowning were, with the pinnace and canoe, already sufficiently great, and that there was not the slightest necessity for our adding to these chances by constructing another craft which would tempt us out upon the perfidious element.†
Chpt 14sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- It was labourious work, but when I considered that the cut was sufficiently deep we took the ropes and pulled with our united strength.†
Chpt 14
- His mother consented 'to humour him', as she said, although without much faith in the value of the preparation; and in the course of two days a stock of pemmican, sufficient for a Polar expedition, was fabricated by our enthusiastic son.†
Chpt 15sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- One trial of the pemmican was sufficient, and it was handed over to the dogs.†
Chpt 15
- After earnest consultation on the subject, we decided that Fritz should go in search of the writer of the message, but not until he had so altered the canoe as to fit it for carrying two persons, as well as provisions sufficient to admit of his absence for a considerable time.†
Chpt 16
- The mere fact of meeting with any human being after so many years of isolation was in itself sufficient to raise the boys to the greatest state of excitement; but that this being should be one so handsome; so gay, so perfectly charming, seemed completely to have fumed their heads; and when I gave the sign for the breaking-up of the feast, and their new friend was about to be led to the night-quarters which had been prepared for her on board the yacht, the health of Edward Montrose was proposed, and drunk in fragrant mead, amidst the cheers and acclamations of all hands.†
Chpt 17
- For a long time she lay upon the sand almost inanimate; but, reviving sufficiently to move, she at length obtained some shellfish, and by degrees recovered her strength.†
Chpt 17sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- When they and the herd of lovely gazelles had been sufficiently admired, we again embarked, and steered towards Safety Bay.†
Chpt 17