comprehend

• Moderation Moors cannot comprehend, they can neither drink moderately, nor eat moderately; they must either abstain altogether or eat or drink like beasts. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• This seems to be a point which many do not thoroughly comprehend, and we would advise a close study of Fig. —  An Analysis of the Lever Escapement
• He was bored and angered by our way of speech which he did not comprehend, and finally he spoke up and said: 'And this is Vesta Van Warden, one-time wife of Van Warden the Magnate--a high and stuck-up beauty, who is now my squaw. —  The Scarlet Plague
• You won't, of course, but most people come back at one with one's inability to comprehend--they always say 'comprehend' the Great Design. —  We Three
• But some of the things he had partly failed to comprehend, and about these he was vague And they have a--a Power, mother, shut up in a hard thing, so that it can't get out unless they let it, and it drives the big canoe through the water. —  The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole

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