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1  In her own room, she tried to comprehend it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
2  Anne could perfectly comprehend the exquisite relief, and was only the more inclined to wonder at the composure of her friend's usual state of mind.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
3  He defended himself; though professing that he would never willingly admit any ladies on board a ship of his, excepting for a ball, or a visit, which a few hours might comprehend.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
4  She could only compare Mr Elliot to Lady Russell, in the wish of really comprehending what had passed, and in the degree of concern for what she must have suffered in witnessing it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
5  She had a strong impression of his having said, in a vext tone of voice, after Captain Wentworth's interference, "You ought to have minded me, Walter; I told you not to teaze your aunt;" and could comprehend his regretting that Captain Wentworth should do what he ought to have done himself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
6  She could not distinguish, but she must guess the subject; and on Captain Wentworth's making a distant bow, she comprehended that her father had judged so well as to give him that simple acknowledgement of acquaintance, and she was just in time by a side glance to see a slight curtsey from Elizabeth herself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
7  In fact, Anne could never see the crape round his hat, without fearing that she was the inexcusable one, in attributing to him such imaginations; for though his marriage had not been very happy, still it had existed so many years that she could not comprehend a very rapid recovery from the awful impression of its being dissolved.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
8  The remainder of Anne's time at Uppercross, comprehending only two days, was spent entirely at the Mansion House; and she had the satisfaction of knowing herself extremely useful there, both as an immediate companion, and as assisting in all those arrangements for the future, which, in Mr and Mrs Musgrove's distressed state of spirits, would have been difficulties.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13