A simple yes or no would have sufficed.
But for the moment each seemed necessary to the other; and that sufficed.
Nevertheless they sufficed to attract the eye, when the whole petiole was viewed as a transparent object beneath the microscope.
Then, secondly, there arose the question whether the methods of exact science sufficed to explain the connexion of phenomena, or whether for the explanation of this the thinking mind was forced to resort to some hypothesis not immediately verifiable by observation, but dictated by higher aspirations and interests.
Two battles, one at Karkar in the north, another at Rapih (Raphia) on the border of Egypt, sufficed to quell the disturbance.