All 11 Uses of
sufficient
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- In good faith, however, he is not sufficiently imaginative to flatter himself with the slightest hope of this kind.†
Chpt Pref. *sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Their companions, or those who endeavored to become such, grew conscious of a circle round about the Maules, within the sanctity or the spell of which, in spite of an exterior of sufficient frankness and good-fellowship, it was impossible for any man to step.†
Chpt 1sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Most of my likenesses do look unamiable; but the very sufficient reason, I fancy, is, because the originals are so.†
Chpt 6
- "Ah, I see how it is!" said he in a deep voice,—a voice which, had it come from the throat of an uncultivated man, would have been gruff, but, by dint of careful training, was now sufficiently agreeable,—"I was not aware that Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon had commenced business under such favorable auspices.†
Chpt 8sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- But the girl seldom failed to propose a removal to the garden, where Uncle Venner and the daguerreotypist had made such repairs on the roof of the ruinous arbor, or summer-house, that it was now a sufficient shelter from sunshine and casual showers.†
Chpt 10sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Chanticleer himself, though stalking on two stilt-like legs, with the dignity of interminable descent in all his gestures, was hardly bigger than an ordinary partridge; his two wives were about the size of quails; and as for the one chicken, it looked small enough to be still in the egg, and, at the same time, sufficiently old, withered, wizened, and experienced, to have been founder of the antiquated race.†
Chpt 10sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- In one corner stood a marble woman, to whom her own beauty was the sole and sufficient garment.†
Chpt 13sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- "Mistress Alice Pyncheon," remarked Matthew Maule, with the utmost deference, but yet a half-hidden sarcasm in his look and tone, "will no doubt feel herself quite safe in her father's presence, and under his all-sufficient protection."†
Chpt 13
- But a harsher sound succeeded to the mysterious notes; nor was the easterly day fated to pass without an event sufficient in itself to poison, for Hepzibah and Clifford, the balmiest air that ever brought the humming-birds along with it.†
Chpt 15
- —it would drive him mad!" exclaimed Hepzibah, but with an irresoluteness sufficiently perceptible to the keen eye of the Judge; for, without the slightest faith in his good intentions, she knew not whether there was most to dread in yielding or resistance.†
Chpt 15sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Their vivid and wild expression seemed likewise sufficient to illuminate them; it was an expression of scorn and mockery, coinciding with the emotions indicated by his gesture.†
Chpt 16sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)