sufficed

The peculiar knowledge of the pilot and captain sufficed for many thousands of people who knew no more of the sea and navigation than I knew.

Chapter 1 2010

The reason ascribed for the glaring improbability that the Greeks should have left their camp and fleet unfortified during nine years, in the midst of a hostile country, is a purely poetical one: ‘So long as Achilles fought, the terror of his name sufficed to keep every foe at a distance.’

The Iliad of Homer 2003

According to the existing laws he was absolute ruler over all living beings of the metal world, his word sufficed for the immediate enforcement of the most severe punishment.

Spaceship of Ancestors Ernsting, Walter 1975

The peculiar knowledge of the pilot and captain sufficed for many thousands of people who knew no more of the sea and navigation than I knew.

Chapter 1 1904

Often, as formerly with Jesus, a look, a word sufficed Francis to attach to himself men who would follow him until their death.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

A word sufficed to set the whole gang recounting experiences, and comparing notes.

A Mummer's Wife 1892

Yet the mere announcement of her name sufficed to shatter his resolve.

In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

Her name sufficed; at once she was respectfully conducted to a small electric-lighted room, furnished only with a table and chairs, and hung about with portraits of theatrical people, where

The Whirlpool George Gissing 1880

When a reminiscence came to them a word sufficed, and they chuckled inwardly the whole afternoon.

A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871

For to meddle with such a retainer was perilous even for sheriff or judge; and the force which a noble could summon at his call sufficed to overawe a law-court or to drag

History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 John Richard Green 1860