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Deeming this insufficient for purchase of the site and payment of reasonable commissions to themselves, the men in charge of the matter asked for a larger sum, which was readily given.

Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

All these securities, however, would be found very insufficient without the restraint of frequent elections.

Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and- twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.

If they should not, it will be too heavy for me, and I must humbly apply to his majesty in whose service I am a sufferer; but this, and a much greater sum would be an insufficient compensation for the constant distress and anxiety of mind I have felt for some time past, and must feel for months to come.

In the second place, images without beliefs are insufficient to constitute memory; and habits are still more insufficient.

Under this the Abraham Lincoln attained the mean speed of nearly eighteen knots and a third an hour-- a considerable speed, but, nevertheless, insufficient to grapple with this gigantic cetacean.

There came three months of mental worry, hard rolling, remorse, and physical pain to drive home the lesson of insufficient experience.

When he went to see him, he saw the doctor glance at his club-foot; and on hearing that Philip was only in his fourth year at the hospital he said at once that his experience was insufficient: Philip understood that this was only an excuse; the man would not have an assistant who might not be as active as he wanted.

The combined jungle craft of the two had been insufficient either to trace the way that they had come, or point the general direction of the river.

Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

The temper of our governments, for a long time to come, would not permit those rigorous precautions by which the European nations guard the avenues into their respective countries, as well by land as by water; and which, even there, are found insufficient obstacles to the adventurous stratagems of avarice.