2152 examples of sufficing in sentences

To thee, sufficing praise no tongue can give, We are thy creatures, and in thee we live!

what well of tears may serve To feed the streams of my foredulled eyes, To weep thy death, as thy death doth deserve, And wail thy want in full sufficing wise?

To Hamlet's condition and behaviour, his mother, her past and her present, is the only and sufficing key.

[Footnote 14: The man who has chosen his friend thus, is hardly himself one to act without sufficing reason, or take vengeance without certain proof of guilt.]

He who has sufficing ground and refuses to act is weak; but the ground that will satisfy the populace, of which the commonplace critic is the fair type, will not satisfy either the man of conscience or of wisdom.

The nervous system, however, possesses the power of modifiability to a marked degree, even a single impression sufficing to make striking modification.

"We of the nineteenth century" have a certain way of our own, however, of enjoying that most rarely fascinating class of literary productions known as stories,a critical, perhaps over-intellectual, way,but still sufficing, it is comfortable to know, to keep the story at very near its ancient dignity in the realm of letters.

He who knows that Love is at the heart of all things, and has realized the all-sufficing power of that Love, has no room in his heart for condemnation.

It is a self-sufficing little commonwealth, in which a quite surprising variety of professions or occupations are represented.

for duty, for desert, Sufficing; and, while Time preserves the roll Of Britain's naval feats, for good report.

The results showed that the easiest and most satisfactory way was to take 100 grains (this amount being preferred, as it reduces error to the minimum), dry thoroughly, powder finely, and macerate with frequent agitation for twenty-four hours in a few ounces of spirit, then to boil in this spirit for a short time, filter, and repeat the boiling with a fresh ounce or so; this, as a rule, sufficing to completely exhaust it of its resin.

My camp was a shelter of bark, raised on poles, open in front to the morning sun, just sufficing to shed the rain, while my bed was a layer of the branches of the fir-trees that grew around.

It is the compensation of such natures that they are self-sufficing and are as indifferent of such recognition as they are superior to it.

To M. Maeterlinck she is the supreme instance of the self-sufficing soul, independent and regardless of the material event.

But the book is another sufficing proof that the male sex has no monopoly of humour.

It is the all-sufficing cause and explanation of the mischief and evil doings which he has to set before us.

I could not tell him that the all-embracing and all-sufficing reason against his possibility of success was that he was himself.

Emily Brontë lived remote, unapproachable, self-sufficing and entirely detached, yet consumed with a fierce, unquenchable love of life and of nature, of the life which withheld from her all the gifts most prized of men, love, friendship, experience, recognition, fame; and of the nature which she knew only on a circumscribed space of the wild Yorkshire moors.

This, and her description of ecstasy, of the all-sufficing joy of the inner life of one who has tasted this experience, mark her out as being among those who have seen, and who know.

dreamed for a moment of the partition of France between Charles and himself, with the crown of France for his own share; demonstrations of joy took place at the court of London; and attempts were made to levy, without the concurrence of Parliament, imposts capable of sufficing for such an enterprise.

"Colonies are like fruits which remain on the tree only until they are ripe," said M. Turgot in 1750; "when they have become self-sufficing, they do as Carthage did, as America will one day do."

After a cursory examination, merely sufficing for an approximative estimate of its length, I would write down a hypothetical inscription based upon antecedent probabilities, and then proceed to extract from the characters engraven on the stone a meaning as nearly as possible conformed to this a priori product of my own ingenuity.

A literature has arisen which commands us all to arrogate to ourselves the liberty of self-sufficing deities at the same time that it exhibits us to ourselves as dingy maniacs who ought to be chained up like dogs.

The Common Pink, Dianthus Chinensis, Kurunful, and the Sweet William, D: barbatus, are pretty, ornamental plants, and may be propagated and cultivated in the same way as the carnation, save that they do not require so much care, or so good a soil, any garden mould sufficing; they are also more easily produced from seed.

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of Solitude.

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