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

To see the homes of those whom we know and respect, though they are but working men, stripped of every bit of furnitureto see long-cherished books and pictures sent one by one to the pawn-shop, that food may be hadand to see that food almost loathsome in kind, and insufficient in quantity,are hard, very hard things to bear.

Post-pituitary insufficients of this type, patent or concealed, gradually become corpulent as they grow older.

The Duke of Wellington alarms his fellow-subjects by suggesting that their national defences would all prove insufficient against the assaults of a certain terrible Frenchman, and an American cabinet official echoes the suggestion that England may, perhaps, try her strength in turn against us.

Fourteen Points, announced; affirmative guaranty in; insufficient as programme; text.

At the commencement of 1917 the allowance to ships was two of Type D and two of Type D*, and the supply was insufficient at that time to keep up the stock required to maintain on board four per destroyer, the number for which they were fitted, or to supply all trawlers and other patrol craft with their allowance.

And so she must content herself to sink down in the old ruts, and plod on in work which was daily becoming more insufficient to her intellectual and spiritual needs.

If this proportion was no more than sufficient to secure the convertibility of its notes with the whole of Great Britain and to some extent the continent of Europe as a field for its circulation, rendering it almost impossible that a sudden and immediate run to a dangerous amount should be made upon it, the same proportion would certainly be insufficient under our banking system.

This was cutting the enemy off once more from the road to Montreal; but Louisbourg, protected in 1757 by the fleet of Admiral Dubois de la Motte, and now abandoned to its own resources, in vain supported an unequal siege; the fortifications were in ruins, the garrison was insufficient notwithstanding its courage and the heroism of the governor, M. de Drucourt.