" As it turned out they had an ample sufficiency; in fact, more than they needed.

" "Thinkest thou," said his father, "if we had Minerva and the king of skies to be our friends, would their sufficiencies make strong our part; or must we look out for some further aid yet?

But the most successful teachers and leaders are those who contrive to wound their sense of intellectual self-sufficiency least, and to offer them the strong food of dogmatic assertion sugared over and sparkling with the show of wit and reason.

To say that Mr. Laing is absolutely certain of the all-sufficiency of evolutionism to explain everything that is knowable to the human mind, that he does not hint for a moment that this philosophy is found by the "bell-wethers" of science to be every day less satisfactory as a complete rationale of the physical cosmos; is really to understate the case for sheer lack of words to express the intensity of his conviction.

" In other words, if we accept this very temperate and reluctant conclusion, we must confess that the one-sided progress, with whose all-sufficiency we are so thoroughly satisfied, is making straight for the extermination, not only of religion, but of morality in any received sense of the term.

" Isfendiyár felt so indignant and irritated by this apparent boasting and self-sufficiency of Rustem, that his first impulse was to cast a dagger at him; but he kept down his wrath, and satisfied himself with giving him a scornful glance, and telling him to take a seat on his left hand.

To my daughter Juanita de Mogente I left a sufficiency.

No one, it is hoped, will suppose that by what is here said I countenance the notion which is held by some authorsa notion implying either arrogant self-sufficiency or mercenary servilitythat to succeed, a man should write down to the public.

The plan was this: while poles were set against the upper portion of the leaf, to force it within the line of the suspended part, handspikes and crowbars, of which a sufficiency had been provided by Joel's forethought, were to be applied between the hinge edge and the wall, to cast the whole over to the other side.

If France doubted its sufficiency, how could they be content with it?

I tell you, my friend, a farmer is like an oak, his roots strike deep in the soil, he draws a sufficiency of food from the earth itself, he breathes the free air around him, his thirst is quenched by heaven itselfand there's no tax on sunshine.

Marry, before they met, he had other very pretty sufficiencies, which yet he retains some light impression of; as frequenting a dancing-school, and grievously torturing strangers with inquisition after his grace in his galliard.

THE WORLD'S WISE MAN Is an able and sufficient wicked man: It is a proof of his sufficiency that he is not called wicked, but wise.

Even the mountain grasses, for which Switzerland is so justly celebrated, grew thin and wiry; and by the time the travellers reached the circular basin at the foot of the peak of Vélan, which is called La Plaine de Prou, there only remained, in the most genial season of the year, and that in isolated spots between the rocks, a sufficiency of nourishment for the support of a small flock of adventurous, nibbling, and hungry goats.

As soon as the pigeons discover a sufficiency of food to entice them to alight, they fly around in circles, reviewing the country below.

However thick-skinned a man may be, and protected over all by the oes triplex of self-sufficiency, he cannot escape being wounded by furious and incessant attacks.

Now, having had a sufficiency of the deer I shall seek a brook.

Meanwhile, they had a sufficiency of everything they required for at least two or three months to come, and for the rest, as Grim said, they had "stout hearts and strong arms.

Probably, however, the indifferent light of the present season of the year made it difficult to get a sufficiency of prints from one negative.

MATTERN, JOHANNES. Geopolitik: doctrine of national self-sufficiency and empire.

" [200] Aristotle says, "He that cannot contract society with others, or who, through his own self-sufficiency [Greek: ay)ta/rkeian], does not need it, forms no part of the community, but is either a wild beast or a god.

It suffices that your hearts unfeignedly sob for greater strength, for continuance, and for final deliverance by Christ Jesus; that which is wanting in us, His sufficiency doth supply; for it is He that fighteth and overcometh for us.

It had struck me as singular that there should be no coffee in the house, but a sufficiency of tea.

Then there came a little gleam of satisfaction across the squire's face as he felt the sufficiency of his answer.

By this arrangement, the saucer being kept filled, or partly filled, as the plant may require, with water, the fibres of the root obtain a sufficiency of moisture for the maintenance and advancement of the plant without chance of injury to the bulb or stem, by applying water to the upper earth which is also in this prevented from becoming too much saturated.