Word: enough
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hard men," by their antics during the performance, they should at once be informed that no upper classman regarded their conduct as at all "tough" or "manly." On the contrary, it was considered extremely "soft" and "childish." To say, however, that '83's behavior was childish, is not enough; it was disgraceful. For any conduct on the part of students is disgraceful that calls forth disapproval of its rowdiness from such professed North-End rowdies as packed the Globe Monday, and draws out a rebuke of their want of self-respect and decency from a low comic actor...
Tutor (severely). - Well, what have you been good enough to substitute, pray...
...upholsterer's.) "This set of Shakespere is a stunner. (I looked at the volumes; they were uncut, and Othello was standing on his head; I sympathetically put him on his feet) "And this set of Marryat's works looks very well on the shelves." (The books certainly did encumber enough space for Thackeray and Jane Austen's works and looked as if they at least had been read.) And so he went on. He had already "ragged" a sign, bearing the inscription "Harvard Laundry," which brilliant witticism he intended to hang over his mantel...
...second reason is one which would be expected to be convincing enough to any gentleman in the Faculty, and, indeed, to any man of a balanced and logical mind. If the Bursar has a right to say who shall black our boots, he has a right to say who shall put down our carpets, who mend our furniture, who cut our trousers, and who shave us. In spite of our logical, philosophical, and metaphysical training, I have not yet seen a man good enough at drawing distinctions to distinguish two different principles in these several cases. Thus, while every...
...this is the first attempt to hold class races in the autumn, it is to be hoped that they will prove successful enough to be continued in the future, for almost any system is preferable to the old scratch races...