A word only was sufficient to throw him from a "good" mood into a "bad" one.
Also, it annoyed him that he should not have sufficient vital force to resist getting chilled by a whiff of wind on a day so mild as this.
The least sound or touch was sufficient to rouse him now.
Lady Wychcote might consider it quite sufficientif she arrived in time for dinner.
Algernon Carfew--that her son is the same as lost to her if she cannot find sufficient reasonableness to have him committed to a sanatorium for his own good?
This did not seem a sufficient reason to Loring's friends for selecting such an out-of-date, deserted spot as Washington Square in which to live for the next four years.
This solitude of the sufficient self was ecstasy, after the long, feverish contact with others.
John, first baron, acquired the Abbey from a misguided supporter of the '15 and left it with sufficient means for its upkeep to his grandson William, the second baron and first viscount, who built on sure foundations.
Oakleigh rose with sufficient alacrity and accompanied her for an hour through the ruins of the Abbey, the Elizabethan reconstruction and the Georgian incrustation.
I doubt if there is any discussion of moral matters in common life in which this form of appeal is not present in a measure sufficient to obscure the merits of the question at issue.
This formula is entirely sufficient as a summary of your conduct, even after you have learned to respect my property.
By a secular society I mean a society held to be self-sufficient as it is; a society in which only those interests are acknowledged which are actually present, or have actually been admitted to a place of power or prestige.
It is sufficient for our purposes to know that art does exercise and develop human nature in all of these ways.
But though these considerations are sufficient to expose moral snobbery, they do not fully define justice.
Yet, for ordinary purposes, a pint bottle was sufficient for a year's consumption.
An army, therefore, which less than half a century ago would have been ample, is at present far fromsufficient for our protection.
Before the present deep wells were bored, oil was not produced in sufficientquantities to cause such a conflagration, and there was never seen upon the creek a stratum of the fluid of such consistency as to be inflammable.
What is sufficientground in this country for killing a man?
In the midst of great difficulties, sufficient to appal and disconcert any ordinary mind, our stupendous fiscal affairs have been conducted with unrivalled firmness, ability, and success.
The question was now to be tested whether the petroleum would present itself in sufficient quantities to justify further proceedings, or whether it was, like many another dream, to vanish in darkness, or dissolve in tears.
If this could be done with sufficient precision, it would certainly account for the exactitude of the register.
The newest book illustrator is perhaps Mr. Charles Robinson, whose work appears to be full of invention, though I have not yet had sufficient opportunities of doing it justice.
A concrete slab 4 to 8 inches thick with the bottom 4 to 6 inches below the surface provides a sufficientfoundation for medium-sized structures where frost is negligible and the soil is well drained and firm.
If too small, they may function properly but do not throw out sufficient heat.
For soot to burn, the gases in contact with it must have a temperature high enough to ignite it and sufficient air to support the combustion.
Where suitable stone is difficult to get in sufficient quantity, the exposed surface may consist of a shell the thickness of the stone and the inner portion of the wall be made of concrete or large stone bedded in concrete.
Through his poems are scattered many fine passages; but not even his large influence on the better poets who followed is sufficient to justify our listening to him longer now.
To him, as to Cowper, the benignities of nature restored peace and calmness and hope--sufficient to enable him to look back and gather wisdom.
Embers of the watch-fires gave sufficient light to distinguish the sleeping figures of the troops, with horses picketted near.
But these were speedily settled; and a sufficient force being now ready for service, the preparations, which had already been too long delayed, were actively begun for the purpose of attacking the Mexican coast.
In one place they found the rocks so steep that they had to take off their boots in order to obtain sufficient foothold, and at one point a counter attack on the part of the enemy in overwhelming numbers pressed them back for a bit.
The only obstruction at present is the famine price of food, which prevents the Company employing sufficient black labour (which they have to feed).
In Mashonaland they have only one line of road to the coast for their supplies, and if that gets cut, we cannot help them; we have not sufficient for ourselves.
Our only chance of maintaining our hold on the country is to plant outlying posts, and to fill them up with a sufficient stock of food to keep them throughout the four months of the rainy season.
Owing to rinderpest, it seems almost impossible to get sufficient waggons in Cape Colony to bring up the required supplies.
The moon was then getting low, and we agreed the only thing to be done was to turn back while there was yet sufficient light to see the track to rejoin the patrol, and to turn them back once more for a second time to the Gwelo River.
Their chief solicitude was to arm the federal government with sufficient power to enable it to resist, within its sphere, the encroachments of the several states.
The substitution of paid for unpaid functionaries is of itself, in my opinion, sufficient to constitute a serious revolution.
A single glance upon a French and an American newspaper is sufficient to show the difference which exists between the two nations on this head.
The acquittal by a jury of those arraigned for the murder of General Lingan, proves only that there was not sufficient evidence to identify the accused, or that the jury was governed by passion.
But this is amply sufficient to endanger the maintenance of the Union.
The Anglo-Americans settled in a state of civilisation, upon that territory which their descendants occupy; they had not to begin to learn, and it was sufficient not to forget.
The publication of the first volume alone would therefore seem to be sufficient to accomplish in the main the objects of the publishers above stated.
It is a slave to its animosity or its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
This tendency, which is sufficient to prevent estates from being divided ad infinitum, is not strong enough to create great territorial possessions, certainly not to keep them up in the same family.
The rival boat was gaining on them; the usual fuel failed to give sufficient speed.
But it seemed as if the mere sense of our situation, should have beensufficient to prevent the like conduct in all on board our craft.
Between these islets and the shore, extended shelving ledges, with shallows above, just sufficientto float a canoe.
There were but two to be taken care of; but I resolved to lay in sufficient store of both meat and drink for four; at the same time that the supplemental twain thus provided for were but imaginary.
Indeed, these spines are not sufficientto prevent some animals from obtaining the watery insides of these plants, for we read that mules and wild horses kick them open and greedily devour their succulent flesh.
There would, therefore, be a cavity formed sufficient to prevent all cohesion, be the graft tied on ever so tightly.
No species or variety is omitted which is known to be in cultivation, or of sufficient interest to be introduced.
In all other particulars, these two species are almost identical, so that where space is limited either the one or the other will be sufficient to represent both.
The illustration is sufficient to show the beauty of this little creeping Cactus, which, although so long known, is not grown in English gardens, though it is common enough in Continental collections.
The spiny character of this species is surpassed by that of many of the more recently introduced kinds; still it is sufficient to justify its being compared to a hedgehog.
During winter very little water is needed, just sufficient to prevent shrivelling being safest.
Anybody knows that much," was Crosson's sufficient answer, and Drury changed to another topic.
I was assuming that potash and phosphate were present in sufficient quantity.
Your creation of new avenues of service, such as The Nutshell is sufficient evidence of your resourcefulness in a difficult and most important office.
The precipitation was plentiful during the winter months so that the water table was sufficient to tide over a slightly dry June and a much more serious drought in September and early October.
We haven't found any way to make that an annual crop, because when it sets a crop, it sets a bumper crop, and there is simply not enough food in the tree to set a sufficient number of fruit buds for the following year's crop.
If sufficient tests at hand, allow cotton to remain on some buds.
Topworking, using the veneer crown graft, has been quite successful as long as sufficient sap drawers are left on the stock (Fig.
While it is doing this the terminal bud is being formed for next year's crop, and if there isn't a sufficient amount of carbohydrates in the tree at that critical period, there is not likely to be a flower bud formed.
Our thinking was that to raise the dues beyond the present level would result in sufficient loss of membership to offset any gain in revenue.
The natural range of the black walnut may be said to have been limited on the north by winter cold, on the west by lack of sufficient rainfall and on the south by a winter climate too mild for the required dormant rest period.
It would simply consist of budding the figured stock on the root at as low a point as possible, then when the figured growth has reached sufficient height, of budding again to the desired variety for nut production.
That, strange as it struck on their ears, appeared to be quite sufficient to all, albeit the necessity for it was not so very clear.
It was sufficient that the ladies should lend the inspiration of their bonnets to this fine match.
Yes,' added Miss Carrington, 'that must be quitesufficient qualification.
Ordinarily Evan had sufficient common sense and was as prosaic as mankind could wish him; but he has had a terrible fall in the morning, and a young woman rages in his brain.
If, sir, you will deign to challenge a man who is not the son of a gentleman, and consider the expression of his thorough contempt for your conduct sufficient to enable you to overlook that fact, you may dispose of me.
JUNE 22nd THOSE thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
JULY 22nd It is a sufficient proof that we are not an essentially democratic state that we are always wondering what we shall do with the poor.
The verses which immediately precede this, require explanation, but perhaps our knowledge is hardly sufficient to enable us to give it fully.
Surely if a sufficient certainty of interpretation be attainable in common literature, the revelation of God cannot be the solitary exception.
There has been a sufficient field for emulation: there have been examples and instructions for good; there have been results of credit and of real improvement made attainable to them, which might have lasted all their lives long.
Things not impossible in themselves are believed upon sufficient testimony; and with all the carelessness and exaggeration of historians, the mass of history is notwithstanding generally credible.
The blood of Jesus Christ is the sole and sufficient oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world.
His swift compassion, His all-sufficient power to heal, and the conditions of receiving His healing, are all wrapped up in the words.
The animal does so, and, as a rule, its instincts are its sufficient guide.
Now, all this is not to be taken as casting cold water on any such efforts to improve matters, but only as a protest against its being supposed that these alone are sufficient to rectify the ills and cure the sorrows of humanity.
But it is true with sufficient frequency to warrant the great a fortiori argument which Jesus bases on it.
Those who have learned that it is their task to feed the multitude, and who have said 'We have no more than such and such scanty resources,' are prepared to be the distributors of His all-sufficient supply.
The conviction that they had not sufficient to finish is the very conviction that Christ wished to root in the minds of the crowds.
Christ's loving forbearance and condescending affording of more than sufficient evidence show how little changed He was by Death and Resurrection.
It is sufficient to note that in them He gives what He does not taste, and that, in giving, His thoughts travel beyond all the sorrow and death to reunion and perfected festal joys.
We have not pictured to ourselves with sufficient vividness the Templars and the Hospitallers in the midst of one of those great battles in the Holy Land in which the fate of the world was in the balance.
They had not sufficientrespect for the weakness of the Church nor for other failings.
The dates of these buildings, so grand in their conception, so solid in their execution, would be sufficient of themselves to show the wealth and activity of the Church during the reigns of the Conqueror and his sons.
If he can no longer collect in a week such an army as fought at Ashdown, he can still, without much delay, bring to his side a sufficient force to hem the pagans in and keep them behind their ramparts.
She was the person to reestablish chivalry, which in her found the purity of its now-effaced type; but she died too soon, and had not sufficient imitators.
There is a sufficient proof that this succession was considered doubtful, and, consequently, that there was an unusual delay in the proclamation of "the king's peace.
All corridors, passages, and courts leading to the Tower will be held in sufficient force, but not a man is to make so much as a threatening gesture without orders.
Yes; said the people must be fleshed,--there was not sufficient enthusiasm.
He was quite ready to strangle Mathieu with those strong hands of his, but had sufficient wit to realise that such a proceeding would probably not help Madelon.
This adjuration produced sufficient effect to make Mlle Ange pass Madelon on the road that very afternoon with no more than a dozen words on either side.
Even her inexperience was aware that she was being cheated, but she had sufficient intelligence to know herself completely in the woman's power, and enough self-control to bridle her tongue.
It is the rule of the casual ward that a man who enters must stay two nights and a day; but I had seen sufficient for my purpose, had paid for my skilly and canvas, and was preparing to run for it.
There were not many, but I found them, usually in the singular, for one appears to be considered sufficient for a poor man's family in which to cook and eat and sleep.
In the low wages of his father, and of other men in the same walk in life, he found sufficient reason for branding wife and children as encumbrances and causes of masculine misery.
Not only was one room deemed sufficient for a poor man and his family, but I learned that many families, occupying single rooms, had so much space to spare as to be able to take in a lodger or two.
For a period nothing seems to have happened to the community of sufficient importance to be recorded, and for the next few years the imagination must supply the story of the settlement.
Its business men had accumulated sufficient capital to revive trade, at least partially, on its past scale; additional industries were started, new homes and buildings sprang up and there was the beginning of a general and steady improvement.
Seymour White, who was at that time Mayor of the City, obtained a sufficient sum to purchase a lot and build a small house of a few rooms.
It is sufficient to say that the first heavy fighting began along the Turnpike near Wilderness Run, on May 4 and 5, and that shortly afterwards the lines were heavily engaged on each side of, and parallel to, the Plank Road.
Is his fortune sufficient to maintain me in the manner I have been accustomed to live?
But writing alone was not now sufficient to exercise his very vigorous faculties.
Inheriting sufficient means to live in great comfort, not to say in luxury, he nevertheless engaged in business; but he had a high sense of the obligation which wealth lays on its possessors.
Every youth should have sufficientmilitary training to fit him to take his place at a moment's notice in the national armament.
There was in me then, as there has always been, a mingling of skepticism and of deep reverence for those who dealt with reality, and I had not had sufficient opportunity to determine whether Roosevelt was real or not.
It had sufficient land to carry on farming and to sustain the necessary horses and domestic cattle.
His father's death left him the possessor of a sufficient fortune to live on comfortably without need of working to earn his bread and butter--the motive which determines most young men when they start in life.
