"Blowin '!" groaned one, as if that single word comprehended the essence of all the miseries that seafaring man is heir to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lighthouse] Reference

The old common version says "comprehended"; the revisions, both English and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on John's Gospel] Reference

'comprehended' or 'surprised' or 'overcame;' that the passage in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"] Reference

This comprehended both the theory and cure of disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

What is meant by "water comprehended in God's command"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference

All this is comprehended in one word, = sanctification =.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanctification] Reference

What I have said in a page can be comprehended in a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Folks do that anyway, for reasons I've never fully comprehended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Collins: Mayor Bloomberg Weighs Cash for Trash] Reference

A century of ceaseless invention is comprehended between the two!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dominion in 1983] Reference

The whole of this region is comprehended under the name of Colorado.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

The diplomat alone did not change color, for he comprehended nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The possibilities of faith can not be comprehended by the finite mind of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference

Does not this signify all that can possibly be comprehended in justification?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanctification] Reference

Montfanon comprehended that every additional word would pain the wounded heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

As he looked into the face of his wife, he comprehended in part her sufferings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

"Come on!" urged Ned softly, realizing that his chum had not fully comprehended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune] Reference

"I don't understand you," I answered, though I comprehended her meaning only too well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

I know not, but it seems to me I have never as clearly seen and comprehended it as to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

For some reason, on the instant only half comprehended by myself, I was sorry he had come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

Certain incidents of her American life recurred to her, which she comprehended more clearly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Whose way (to speed and prosper in it) must be through a way, that is not easily comprehended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

Madame de Bergenheim comprehended that in such circumstances prudish airs would fail of their effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

John 1 gives us more clues, "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Hunting: Holy Bible, Holy Mirror: How Looking Beyond Literal Meaning Enhances the Bible's Sanctity] Reference

At first Michael listened to her attentively, and when he comprehended her meaning, he gave the child back to its mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Indeed, it's a truism among academic Holocaust scholars that the "final solution" can't be adequately described or comprehended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Out Of The Silence] Reference

She has never comprehended what a glorious thing it is to be a woman -- she has not comprehended what it is to be a woman at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

But he stopped suddenly, as if he comprehended, despite his inebriety, that he was in danger of going too far and doing some harm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The nature of the "something else" the young girl comprehended, on recalling her mother's face during the perusal of Maud's letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The cab that time started off leisurely, for the man comprehended that the mad desire to arrive hastily no longer possessed his fare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Try to name another prime-time drama whose protagonist ends up glorified and vilified for a deed he neither intended nor comprehended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rediscovering America] Reference

His brilliant victory at Nashville was necessary to mine at Savannah to make a complete whole, and this fact was perfectly comprehended by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference