Comprehends

Examples

• 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.
• But when this change begins, it goes on; and by and by he nods or moves his eyes or even his hand in token that he hears and comprehends. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It comprehends both the inland and the coasting trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The first comprehends those which it is scarce in the power of human industry to multiply at all. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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