Short of that, it would be utterly insufficient for the case; and I believe that, with an energetic appeal made to the whole country, and an effort organised such as I have indicated, such an amount might be raised.

But I discovered, immediately, that they were totally insufficient for my purpose.

The escort had been reinforced by a squadron of dragoons from Fort Laramie, but its entire strength was less than three hundred men, a number obviously insufficient to defend a line of wagons six miles in length.

Of course, there is a certain amount of truth in this view; at the same time, it is lamentably insufficient.

The simple powers of the other letters are so manifestly insufficient to form any name, and so palpable is the difference between the nature and the name of each, that did we not know how education has been trifled with, it would be hard to believe even Murray, when he says, "They are frequently confounded by writers on grammar.

But what he allowed her, even with the addition of her alimony, was absurdly insufficient.

But what he really worked by was his own empirical perceptions, which exceeded and overflowed his miserably insufficient logical categories in every instance of their use.

It is needless, for the purpose of exciting our admiration, to endeavor to persuade us that it was done in a space of time materially insufficient.

He says that the food "was cruelly insufficient for those who had no friends to supply them."

Their doctrine was dismally insufficient, and sometimes, as the present writer has often pointed out, it was directly vicious.