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It has comprehended that my position of exile, that my love for my country, that my relationship to the great man were extenuating causes.

From Hortense Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

No one has comprehended and justified its follies and its amiable idiosyncrasies with a more poetic irony, with a deeper conviction.

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

Malory ought to be enough to set him right there: he need even not go much beyond Tennyson, who has comprehended Lancelot pretty correctly, if not indeed pretty adequately.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

Lamartine has comprehended nothing, that is clear, even if his amount of energy had been effectual....

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

The acute and splendid nauticality of this club, all fashioned out of an old warehouse, stamps Boston as a city which has comprehended the sea.

From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Bennett, Arnold