1 These observations comprise the whole of the case.
2 After the waste of a few minutes in saying the proper nothings, she began to give the invitation which was to comprise all the remaining dues of the Musgroves.
3 I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing will not comprise what I have to tell you.
4 Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole roll of our order.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling. 5 It appeared to comprise a poulterer's premises.
6 At the period of our arrival at the Island, the heaviest storage of the Pequod had been almost completed; comprising her beef, bread, water, fuel, and iron hoops and staves.
7 As a general thing, these ship-keepers are as hardy fellows as the men comprising the boats' crews.
8 Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of which is nicked out.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 9 To gain the sympathy and cooperation of the various elements comprising the white South was Mr. Washington's first task; and this, at the time Tuskegee was founded, seemed, for a black man, well-nigh impossible.
10 My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.
11 comprised in your initials written in books you have at different times lent me; but I never asked for what name it stood.
12 In Lydia's imagination, a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness.
13 Of this seventy-two feet, his skull and jaw comprised some twenty feet, leaving some fifty feet of plain back-bone.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton. 14 Three months comprised thirteen weeks.
15 Chichikov replied that such cases were common, since nature comprised many things which even the finest intellect could not compass.