Comprehend

Examples

• Still, he said, I do not comprehend you. Plato. The Republic.
• If so, you must extend your suspicions and comprehend _Mr_. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And on another account, too, I can perfectly comprehend. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It is as much as I can do to comprehend this stupefying fact. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I never could comprehend how Mr. Weston could part with him. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• They have become the forms under which all things were comprehended. Plato. The Republic.
• He sees no hope of happiness or peace for mankind until all nations of the earth are comprehended in a single empire. Plato. The Republic.
• The hint, though conveyed thus tenderly and modestly (as Caroline thought), was felt keenly and comprehended clearly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Rosa Dartle's keen glance comprehended all of us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was the life as well as the light of the world, all knowledge and all power were comprehended in it. Plato. The Republic.
• I regret to state that I was not afraid of telling the enormous lie comprehended in the answer No. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• When the machine is pushed through the standing corn all the ears are comprehended by the teeth and cut off by them from the straw and drop into the machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Mr. Pickwick did not quite understand the last item of description, but, comprehending the first, said 'Yes,' at a venture. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The loss of Mary I must consider as comprehending the loss of Crawford and of Fanny. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He looked round gloomily at his eldest daughter; who, comprehending the meaning of his look, which asked unmistakably, Why the devil is she here? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The old man, with an apologetic action of his head and hands, as not comprehending the master's meaning, addressed to him a look of mute inquiry. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Oh, the rare happiness of comprehending every single word that is said, and knowing that every word one says in return will be understood as well! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He made no pretence of comprehending women, or comparing them with men. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn, comprehending it, inclines his head and says he is much obliged. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• How that woman comprehends me! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The brilliant and distinguished circle comprehends within it no contracted amount of education, sense, courage, honour, beauty, and virtue. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• What is called gross profit, comprehends frequently not only this surplus, but what is retained for compensating such extraordinary losses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But he is a liberal master, I suppose, and _that_ in the eye of a servant comprehends every virtue. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The public trade of the company extends no further than the trade with Europe, and comprehends a part only of the foreign trade of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Locke, No. 295,776, March 25, 1884, and comprehends many subsequent improvements patented by Miller, Delaney, North and others. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He too will frame an ideal, but his ideal comprehends not only abstract justice, but the whole relations of man. Plato. The Republic.

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