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  • Vanuatu, which having been administered (until its independence) by an Anglo-French Condominium, retains both French and English as official languages (in addition to Bislama, or Bichelama); and Portugal, whose explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros became in 1606 the first European to discover the islands Vanuatu comprises.†   (source)
  • A thin circlet comprising dangling gold and jewels crowned her head.†   (source)
  • On both coasts, the segment of society that Mr. and Mrs. Lish "knew" was comprised of the kind of people who struck many Gravesend Academy seniors as the most fascinating people alive; Owen and I, however, had never heard of most of these people.†   (source)
  • But the grotto itself comprises its own slick universe, and inside this universe spin countless galaxies: here, in the upturned half of a single mussel shell, lives a barnacle and a tiny spindle shell occupied by a still smaller hermit crab.†   (source)
  • The Catskill Park comprises 700,000 acres of land in the Catskill Mountains owned jointly by state and local governments, including a 5 percent share held by New York City, which gets much of its water from reservoirs partly inside the park.†   (source)
  • Alongside them were white oaks, beeches, maples, walnuts, sycamores, birches, willows, cedars, pines, and hemlocks, all enmeshed in a lattice of wild grapevine, comprising one of the greatest assortment of forest trees in the Northern Hemisphere.†   (source)
  • I would disappear inside whole worlds comprised of Gulliver's Travels, Shane, and books by Beverly Cleary.†   (source)
  • Each must know what the Consul knew; only a group comprising a prime number of pilgrims might make the Shrike Church-sponsored trip north.†   (source)
  • The loveliest scenes, he found, were comprised of the simplest, most natural juxtapositions of native plants.†   (source)
  • Deuteronomy is the only book of the Pentateuch that refers to a written Torah as comprising the divine will: 'And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, from that which is in charge of the Levitical priests; and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LoRD his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them; that his heart may not be…†   (source)
  • "A McDonald's restaurant is just the window of a much larger system comprising an extensive food-chain, running right up to the farms," one of the company's Indian partners told a foreign journalist.†   (source)
  • She had everything Somerset Maugham had ever written (once Paul found himself wondering dourly if she had John Fowles's first novel on her shelves and decided it might be better not to ask), and Paul began to work his way through the twenty-odd volumes that comprised Maugham's oeuvre, fascinated by the man's canny grasp of story values.†   (source)
  • Of course, this merely begs the further question: of what is 'dignity' comprised?†   (source)
  • The large ghetto comprised the whole northern part of Warsaw, containing a great many narrow, evil-smelling streets and alleys and crammed with Jews living in poverty in dirty, cramped conditions.†   (source)
  • Name the component structures that comprise the hand.†   (source)
  • One comprises plants, and the other creatures.†   (source)
  • Nadia's flat comprised a studio room with an alcove kitchenette and a bathroom so small that showering without drenching the commode was impossible.†   (source)
  • My days are inconsequential, comprising simple moments and even simpler pleasures.†   (source)
  • A long plank and tubular chairs comprise a makeshift table, on top of which are scattered take-out pizza boxes, the thermos jar of coffee, paper cups, sheet music, a small tape recorder, and saxophone reeds.†   (source)
  • …arrived at Lansing after an eight-hour, four-hundred-mile car ride from Garden City, the newcomers had been stripped, showered, given close haircuts, and supplied with coarse denim uniforms and soft slippers (in most American prisons such slippers are a condemned man's customary footwear); then armed escorts marched them through a wet twilight to the coffin-shaped edifice, hustled them up the spiral stairs and into two of the twelve side-by-side cells that comprise Lansing's Death Row.†   (source)
  • The physicians who comprised our social group were an assortment of Americans and others, like Moody, who had traveled from their native lands to study and practice in the United States.†   (source)
  • He had a dark complexion and an intelligent face, and he casually shook hands with each of the men beneath the tree, men who as I laterdiscovered comprised the highest Thembu court of justice.†   (source)
  • Not long after Charles Monet died, it was established that the family of filoviruses comprised Marburg along with two types of a virus called Ebola.†   (source)
  • An assemblage of agricultural tribes from the area of East Africa now comprising Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique, the Somali Bantu had undergone more than three hundred years of almost uninterrupted persecution.†   (source)
  • They said: THIS IDEALLY SITUATED ESTATE, COMPRISING SIX ACRES OF EXCELLENT BUILDING LAND, IS TO BE DEVELOPED WITH HIGH CLASS MODERN RESIDENCES BY SUTCH AND MARTIN, LIMITED, OF NEWBURY, BERKS.†   (source)
  • At that time, my natural lore was comprised of a few rules, all of which I confused so that when the situation presented itself, I knew there was something to be done, but I did not quite know what exactly.†   (source)
  • "First of all, armadas are comprised of ships," Chubs said.†   (source)
  • The sixty-six highest-ranked wrestlers in Japan, comprising the makuuchi and juryo divisions, make up the sumo elite.†   (source)
  • Those who passed would be "platooned up"—assigned to one of twelve platoons on Team FOUR, each comprising sixteen men: two officers, a chief petty officer, and thirteen enlisted.†   (source)
  • The entire board was by now comprised of professional educators.†   (source)
  • The team was comprised of seven ocean-engineering majors, three mechanical-engineering students, and two computer science majors.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's just because my taste buds are so desensitized to sweet that anything not comprised of at least ninety percent sugar tastes wrong.†   (source)
  • Large and circular, set on a concrete base, it was an oddity among the other square or rectangular buildings that comprised the dorms on the hill.†   (source)
  • It was determined that Eledir would command the primary force of the allies' army—appropriate, given that it was comprised mostly of elves from the Blue Dragon.†   (source)
  • Once the reporting was finished, the elements of quoted dialogue, visible action, and interior thoughts were woven into the points of view of thirteen characters that comprise this book, edge to edge.†   (source)
  • Within four months, we were recording Collateral Damage, comprised of fifteen of the songs I'd written from the chasm of my childhood bedroom.†   (source)
  • In actuality, the whole team was comprised of African American boys.†   (source)
  • Commander Ryan Evans was temporarily on loan to an army joint-operational counterintelligence unit comprised of intel specialists from the army, the navy, and the air force.†   (source)
  • It was almost impossible: on earth, proteins were part of the cell wall, and comprised all the enzymes known to man.†   (source)
  • Twin hills comprised the Heights of the Dorchester peninsula, and the distance from these summits to the nearest British lines at Boston Neck was a mile and a half, well within range of a 2— or i 8-pound cannon.†   (source)
  • They comprised a sequence of photographs showing a crowd of people passing through metal detectors in one of the airport's international terminals.†   (source)
  • She was not at all sure right now that she was the person to lead the sprawling organization that comprised SMP.†   (source)
  • One, it seemed to Annie, was comprised of obligations and the other of possibilities.†   (source)
  • Three hundred acres of low rolling hills and shallow vales and broad lawns comprised the memorial park, a city of the deceased, Los Angeles of the dead, divided into neighborhoods by gracefully winding service roads.†   (source)
  • The rest of the movie was comprised of gruesome zombie attacks and endless screaming from the handful of people left alive, their numbers dwindling quickly.†   (source)
  • That was Aamon's realm and comprised much of what had once been Russia and northern Asia.†   (source)
  • In the present, medical school comprised a world all its own, both to him and, he thought, to most of his classmates.†   (source)
  • The president walks purposefully through the serenity of the White House Rose Garden, even as the Cuban exiles comprising Brigade 2506 are in grave danger, pinned down on a remote stretch of sand in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Within a few hours, I'll be back in London at my grandmother's house, preparing for the dizzying whirl of balls and parties that comprise the social season.†   (source)
  • Mr. Baldwin, the disposition of your clients' condition will comprise a substantial part of this tribunal's inquiry.†   (source)
  • It is comprised of compassion, care, security, and a leap of faith.†   (source)
  • For in my own way I comprised it, my yearning and wishing and my wanton hope, the sum of which, at end, amounted to a complete and utter fraudulence.†   (source)
  • Scales, however (and everyone knew that a scale comprised three men), were moderate and soothing, nearly invisible to sentries and observers, part of the landscape, and not so big that their apparent movement would appear unusual.†   (source)
  • More people than could possibly have fit into the twenty or thirty buildings that comprised the village.†   (source)
  • The halfling looked back over his shoulder at the dozens of low wooden cabins dotting the thick rows of trees that comprised Lonelywood.†   (source)
  • "This is one of four penthouses that comprise The Pavilion, built especially for the Novaks," Vivienne explained as she unlocked the oak door of a lavish penthouse.†   (source)
  • His world is insular, Lieutenant, comprised for the most part of himself alone.†   (source)
  • THE ENTIRETY OF the new city thus far comprised three buildings.†   (source)
  • This comprises …. well, a goodly bit of Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and the rural areas of Ontario.†   (source)
  • The territory owned by my wolf family comprised more than a hundred square miles, bounded on one side by a river but otherwise not delimited by geographical features.†   (source)
  • Male and female, the two voices comprised a cheering section, calling out such exhortations as I had never heard.†   (source)
  • The complete set comprises the most comprehensive account of the United States ever got together, and nothing since has even approached it.†   (source)
  • Some even dared claim that Heaven was comprised of an immortal aristocracy of wilful hedonists who played games with the world.†   (source)
  • The city comprises prominent (Jewish) synagogues, (Christian) churches, and (Islamic) mosques.†   (source)
  • In the spring of 1993, on the fortieth anniversary of the first ascent, a record fifteen expeditions, comprising 294 climbers, attempted to scale the peak from the Nepalese side.†   (source)
  • Her half-finished antidote, comprising fifty-two ingredients including a chunk of her own hair, bubbled sluggishly behind Slughorn, who had eyes for nobody but Harry.†   (source)
  • I had had in the meantime more opportunity to observe the house; it was taller than it was broad, comprising four floors, with ivy covering much of the front right up to the gables.†   (source)
  • One programme I listen to is called _Twice a Week or More--, which is in fact broadcast three times each week, and basically comprises two persons making humorous comments on a variety of topics raised by readers' letters.†   (source)
  • According to Aristotle, man's "form" comprises a soul, which has a plant-like part, an animal part, and a rational part.†   (source)
  • There were, in the revolutionary years, seven groups of "Whigs" (revolutionaries) in Boston, comprising some 255 men.†   (source)
  • The thick green paper got lost somewhere along the way, but I still have the original forty or so pages of typescript, comprising the sections titled "The Gunslinger" and "The Way Station."†   (source)
  • It comprises an extraordinarily powerful and flexible set of tools that can reliably assess a thicket of information to determine the effect of any one factor, or even the whole effect.†   (source)
  • In addition there is land currently in white pine and other timber farms which comprises an additional twenty percent of the total land area where sugar maple is harvestable.†   (source)
  • "The resolution which has taken place in this nation," he told Edmund Jenings, "is the result of a vast number and variety of events, comprising the great scheme of Providence…… When I recollect the circumstances, I am amazed, and feel that it is no work of mine."†   (source)
  • The client's financial system comprises vessels of constant volume that, when they overflow, overflow into other vessels of constant volume.†   (source)
  • The rest stemmed from all of those mingled elements comprising what, in that era so heavily burdened by the idiom of psychoanalysis, I had come to recognize as the gestalt: the blissful temper of the sunny June day, the ecstatic pomp of Mr. Handel's riverborne jam session, and this festive little room whose open windows admitted a fragrance of spring blossoms which pierced me with that sense of ineffable promise and certitude I don't recall having felt more than once or twice after the…†   (source)
  • The Order is comprised only of overage wizards,' he said.†   (source)
  • The Red Branch comprised the finest warriors of Ulster.†   (source)
  • Treadstone is comprised of a small group of men among the most trustworthy in the government.†   (source)
  • This domain will comprise all of New England and New York State.†   (source)
  • They knew that the panel was comprised of some impressive judges.†   (source)
  • The two infantry regiments comprise almost 800 fighters who can wage war only on foot.†   (source)
  • Author's Note History is comprised less of certainty than of supposition.†   (source)
  • The Adams domain comprised in all three farms.†   (source)
  • It was as if he saw clearly an army as it approached, but wanted to know what elements it comprised.†   (source)
  • The project comprised three sixteen-story buildings made of yellow-gray brick.†   (source)
  • The last words I've kept from the journal comprise a line of poetry, my own.†   (source)
  • Though much smaller and entirely round, the room somewhat resembled the Room of Requirement on the unforgettable occasion that it had transformed itself into a gigantic labyrinth comprised of centuries of hidden objects.†   (source)
  • "Really?" said Harry, taking care not to catch Ron's eye; the last time he had met Hagrid's half-brother, a vicious giant with a talent for ripping up trees by the roots, his vocabulary had comprised five words, two of which he was unable to pronounce properly.†   (source)
  • The headmaster attempted to have the matter turned over to the Executive Committee; but Dan Needham knew that Owen's chances of survival would be poor among that group of (largely) the headmaster's henchmen—at least, they comprised the majority in any vote, as The Voice had pointed out.†   (source)
  • It had been partitioned from a much larger flat and comprised three rooms: two modest bedrooms and a third chamber they used for sitting, dining, entertaining, and watching television.†   (source)
  • The traffic jam was comprised of climbers from three expeditions: the team I belonged to, a group of paying clients under the leadership of the celebrated New Zealand guide Rob Hall; another guided party headed by the American Scott Fischer; and a noncommercial Taiwanese team.†   (source)
  • Then he realized that it was a colossal skull, comprised of what looked like emerald stars, with a serpent protruding from its mouth like a tongue.†   (source)
  • The Hog's Head bar comprised one small, dingy and very dirty room that smelled strongly of something that might have been goats.†   (source)
  • Granta House was on the other side of Stortfold Castle, close to the medieval walls, on the long unpavemented stretch that comprised only four houses and the National Trust shop, bang in the middle of the tourist area.†   (source)
  • My new language universe was comprised of four monosyllables, three compound words, and two baby-talk repetitions.†   (source)
  • The museum's various levels were comprised of vast caverns linked by a network of subterranean streets, tunnels, staircases, elevators, escalators, ladders, slides, trapdoors, and secret passageways.†   (source)
  • Hagrid's cabin comprised a single room, in one corner of which was a gigantic bed covered in a patchwork quilt.†   (source)
  • The back, under what looked like a dirty brownish smock comprised of animal skins sewn roughly together, was very broad; and as Grawp slept, it seemed to strain a little at the rough seams of the skins.†   (source)
  • Four waves of arrows comprised of more than six thousand meter-long, chisel-pointed, clothyard missiles rose, seemed to hang in a cloud thirty meters up, and fell on the French.†   (source)
  • The second group was comprised of ten of the silliest girls Harry had ever encountered, who, when he blew his whistle, merely fell about giggling and clutching one another.†   (source)
  • The dense hedge walls that comprised the maze were ten feet tall, making it impossible to peek over them, even if you stood on top of one of the benches placed throughout the labyrinth.†   (source)
  • I dressed as quickly and quietly as possible, pulling on the worn corduroys, baggy sweater, and oversize coat that comprised my entire winter wardrobe.†   (source)
  • Squinting up at the shamrock, Harry realized that it was actually comprised of thousands of tiny little bearded men with red vests, each carrying a minute lamp of gold or green.†   (source)
  • And one has a right, perhaps, to feel a satisfaction those content to serve mediocre employers will never know - the satisfaction of being able to say with some reason that one's efforts, in however modest a way, comprise a contribution to the course of history.†   (source)
  • But after 1850 one can no longer speak of whole 'epochs' which comprise poetry, philosophy, art, science, and music.†   (source)
  • Dragons comprised entirely of green and gold sparks were soaring up and down the corridors, emitting loud fiery blasts and bangs as they went; shocking-pink Catherine wheels five feet in diameter were whizzing lethally through the air like so many flying saucers; rockets with long tails of brilliant silver stars were ricocheting off the walls; sparklers were writing swear words in midair of their own accord; firecrackers were exploding like mines everywhere Harry looked, and instead of…†   (source)
  • An almost invisible darkening hung above the horizon to the north and east, and those pilgrims who had lived on ocean worlds and knew it as a promise of the approaching sea had to remind themselves that the only sea now near was comprised of several billion acres of grass.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the crowd in the mysterious room at the bottom of the basin was comprised of adults, and Harry knew there were not nearly that many teachers at Hogwarts.†   (source)
  • For a while, they walked around the store, pacing the dusty, varnished two-by-fours that comprised a floor, pretending to consider various snacks, drinks, and minnows swimming in bait tanks.†   (source)
  • The cavalry comprise 79 soldiers on horseback, who can fight either in the saddle or as dismounted foot soldiers.†   (source)
  • Max blinked as the golden threads that comprised the mythical sea monster 'dissipated into tiny motes of light.†   (source)
  • Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions—we can alter the way we thin-slice—by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.†   (source)
  • Within the walls of Congress, he was at first dazzled by the other delegates, who, he decided, comprised an assembly surpassing any in history.†   (source)
  • As she spoke, she was nibbling from a box of raisins, which Sophia knew would comprise her breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the day.†   (source)
  • They drove through downtown and then got off the interstate in a part of the city that seemed to be comprised entirely of low-lying buildings with few window and even fewer signs informing visitors of their function.†   (source)
  • Indeed the horror of it was how central we were, how ingenuously and not we comprised the larger processes, feeding ourselves and one another to the all-consuming engine of the war.†   (source)
  • Some who were lauded as shining examples of patriotism looked hardly fit for battle, like the Connecticut unit comprised entirely of "aged gentlemen."†   (source)
  • It was decided that Singbe, Grabeau, and eight of the others who had shown the most progress in speaking, reading, and understanding the Scriptures should comprise the touring company.†   (source)
  • They stretched westward from the cliffs in a great curving arc, as though they comprised but one visible portion of a noose that was tightening around all of Rowan.†   (source)
  • She parked on Bergsgatan, took the elevator up to Bublanski's office, and picked up the three pages that comprised the meagre results of their search for Niedermann.†   (source)
  • Gazing down, Max surveyed a map whose general outline comprised what had been Europe and North Africa.†   (source)
  • In 1947, I helped organize an adult Catholic league that was comprised of the first baseball teams in Monterrey.†   (source)
  • Liberians, for example, often moved to Iowa, Somalis to Minneapolis or Lewiston, Maine, and Sudanese to Omaha, Nebraska, to seek out the support of communities comprised of family, friends, and countrymen.†   (source)
  • He continued on, though, through the darkened hallway that led to the tower's first level, marveling at the strange crystalline material that comprised the walls and floors of the structure.†   (source)
  • He had none of the misconceptions about wolves which, taken en masse, comprise the body of accepted writ in our society.†   (source)
  • Once, the driver stopped along the shoulder of the highway, where a rutted lane led to a distant village comprised of a few hovels.†   (source)
  • The Nguni can be divided into a northern group —the Zulu and the Swazi people—and a southern group, which is made up of amaBaca, amaBomyana, amaGcaleka, amaMfengu, amaMpodomis, amaMpondo, abeSotho, and abeThembu, and together they comprise the Xhosa nation.†   (source)
  • Bram's quarters comprised several old classrooms that had been modified into an apartment with a large common area, two small bedrooms, a snug study, and an old-fashioned privy.†   (source)
  • A series of small tents, each bearing the respective standards of the tribal kings, comprised the center of the assembly, surrounded by the open campfires of common soldiers.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bonn was directing the malakhim to lay out a suit of light armor comprised of ornate red plates sewn to an underlying garment of black leather.†   (source)
  • Rasmussen hastily flipped on the lights, transforming the black, mysterious forms into a fleet of aircraft that appeared to be salvaged from earlier eras to comprise a sort of aviation museum.†   (source)
  • Hacker Republic comprised a very exclusive club of the best of the best, an elite force that any defence organization in the world would have paid enormous sums to use for cyber-military purposes, if the citizens could be persuaded to feel any kind of loyalty to any state.†   (source)
  • Of course he did, Cesar sighed to himself as he gazed at the unwashed faces of the boys who comprised the Monterrey Industrial Little League team.†   (source)
  • Inspector Bublanski was accompanied by Modig and seven uniformed officers when Stefan Bladh of the Constitutional Protection Unit admitted them at exactly noon into the locked section that comprised the domain of the Security Police at Kungsholmen.†   (source)
  • The staterooms for the women comprised two tiny, airless cabins opening onto the main cabin where meals were served and the men slept.†   (source)
  • Prusias might have been king, but it seemed his kingdom comprised a somewhat fractious confederacy, where alliances shifted like the sand.†   (source)
  • "Your Vyndra is indeed one of the dukes," murmured Valya, pointing to a section of the map that comprised the majority of Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.†   (source)
  • Capitol Hill comprised a few stores, a few nondescript hotels and boardinghouses clustered near a half-finished sandstone Capitol.†   (source)
  • Set in a rolling sweep of land that lent a feeling of even grander scale, the estate comprised approximately 400 acres and was approached through a tremendous Corinthian arch.†   (source)
  • Built some forty years before, it comprised a handsome main edifice, two stories tall with a bell tower and arcaded wings joining smaller "offices" at either end, all of it done in red brick.†   (source)
  • On Christmas Day, 1780, longing for him, she had written a letter he would not receive until nearly summer: My dearest friend, How much is comprised in that short sentence?†   (source)
  • The two commissioners and a few workers at hand comprised the welcoming committee for the arrival of John Adams, the first President to occupy what only much later would become known as the White House.†   (source)
  • If they are wise they will improve …. the bloom of their health in acquiring such a fund of learning and knowledge as may render them useful to themselves, and beneficial to society, the great purpose for which they were sent into the world…… To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.†   (source)
  • Within days Adams appointed two special envoys who, with General Pinckney, would comprise a new commission to proceed to Paris.†   (source)
  • On these roads out of the manufacturing centers there moved many mobile homes, pulled by specially designed trucks, and since these mobile homes comprise one of my generalities, I may as well get to them now Early in my travels I had become aware of these new things under the sun, of their great numbers, and since they occur in increasing numbers all over the nation, observation of them and perhaps some speculation is in order.†   (source)
  • Both my dialect and my diction comprised a glib contrivance but they had succeeded in wildly amusing Leslie, and obviously winning her.†   (source)
  • A handful of Nathan and Sophie's friends turned up—six or seven of the young professionals and teachers at Brooklyn College who comprised what I had called the "Morty Haber group," including Morty himself.†   (source)
  • She had begun to drink, not heavily—what she drank did not even hesitantly slur her speech—but the three or four mild glasses of whiskey and water she downed during that gray wet afternoon comprised a surprising departure for one who, like Nathan, had been relatively abstemious.†   (source)
  • Wanda could scarcely be expected to know of the antipathy—call it indifference—which Sophie harbored toward husband and father, dead in their graves these past three years at Sachsenhausen; nonetheless, what she had said comprised a telling point of sorts, and Sophie detected in Wanda a consequent moderation of tone.†   (source)
  • I had removed them from the files, feeling a rather wistful affection for my piece on Gundar Firkin, and coveting especially my musings on Kon-Tiki, about which I had the odd suspicion that they might comprise someday an interesting sheaf of literary marginalia.†   (source)
  • In Newspeak it is called doublethink, though doublethink comprises much else as well.†   (source)
  • Yes, Henry: not Bon, as witness the entire queerly placid course of Bon's and Judith's courtship—an engagement, if engagement it ever was, lasting for a whole year yet comprising two holiday visits as her brother's guest and which periods Bon seems to have spent either in riding and hunting with Henry or as acting as an elegant and indolent esoteric hothouse bloom possessing merely the name of a city for origin history and past, about which Ellen preened and fluttered out her unwitting…†   (source)
  • This force comprises all our best-trained and our finest troops, including scores of thousands of those who have already measured their quality against the Germans and found themselves at no disadvantage.†   (source)
  • I agreed, my eyes being fixed on a family group comprising a gentleman with whiskers, a lady with a high 'front' of hair, a solid, thick-set boy, and two little girls tied up with a good many unnecessary bows of ribbon.†   (source)
  • Home in Greenwood was a four-room bungalow, comprising half of a double house that sat on a quiet shady road.†   (source)
  • Eurasia comprises the whole of the northern part of the European and Asiatic land-mass, from Portugal to the Bering Strait.†   (source)
  • Oceania comprises the Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa.†   (source)
  • Eastasia, smaller than the others and with a less definite western frontier, comprises China and the countries to the south of it, the Japanese islands and a large but fluctuating portion of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet.†   (source)
  • This brings me to a final consideration, which comprises, as it were, all the others.†   (source)
  • As a general thing, these ship-keepers are as hardy fellows as the men comprising the boats' crews.†   (source)
  • Thou speakest as one having tongues and who putteth the speed behind the ole rhombencephalon comprising the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata.†   (source)
  • A different group comprising one watch of topmen leaned over the rail of that sea-balcony, no small one in a seventy-four, looking down on the crowd below.†   (source)
  • These are they who are generally known as "commonplace people," and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind.†   (source)
  • …the world inhabited by Odette was not that other world, fearful and supernatural, in which he spent his time in placing her—and which existed, perhaps, only in his imagination, but the real universe, exhaling no special atmosphere of gloom, comprising that table at which he might sit down, presently, and write, and this drink which he was being permitted, now, to taste; all the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his…†   (source)
  • On the starboard side of the Indomitable's upper gun deck, behold Billy Budd under sentry, lying prone in irons, in one of the bays formed by the regular spacing of the guns comprising the batteries on either side.†   (source)
  • —Having looted the Madera Lumber Company's storehouses of $25,000 worth of goods and robbed scores of foreigners of horses and saddles, the rebel command of Gen. Antonio Rojas, comprising a thousand men, started westward to-day through the state of Sonora for Agnaymas and Pacific coast points.†   (source)
  • Since my father used always to speak of the 'Meseglise way' as comprising the finest view of a plain that he knew anywhere, and of the 'Guermantes way' as typical of river scenery, I had invested each of them, by conceiving them in this way as two distinct entities, with that cohesion, that unity which belongs only to the figments of the mind; the smallest detail of either of them appeared to me as a precious thing, which exhibited the special excellence of the whole, while,…†   (source)
  • 'Whales are generally considered as fishes by those little acquainted with the animal kingdom, but they belong to the class of mammals, which comprises man, the monkey tribes, the bats, the dogs and cats, all hoofed animals, whales and their allies, with other animals, the last on the list being the sloth.†   (source)
  • Ed. But as beautiful as it was, I could get only a quick look at this basin whose surface area comprises 2,000,000 square kilometers.†   (source)
  • It was a very beautiful figure, comprising a great deal of work for the arms, and was received with unbounded applause.†   (source)
  • In a remote and terror-inspiring angle was a square enclosure of eight or ten feet, comprising the sanctum, "during hours," of our principal, the Reverend Dr. Bransby.†   (source)
  • The white comprises part of his head, and the whole of his mouth, which makes him look as if he had just escaped from a felonious visit to a meal-bag.†   (source)
  • On this occasion she was so much disturbed in mind as to find it necessary to open the bedroom door, and make a course for herself, comprising the full extent of the bedrooms from wall to wall; and while Mr. Dick and I sat quietly by the fire, she kept passing in and out, along this measured track, at an unchanging pace, with the regularity of a clock-pendulum.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which were flung into this ravine the day after the combat.†   (source)
  • We shall all be hurried during the rest of our stay here; and though there's not a poorer man with whole elbows in Venice, than myself, I have not quite got all the Amateur out of me yet—comprising the trade again, you see!†   (source)
  • Mingled with this confused heap, which was tossed into the flames by armfuls at once, were innumerable badges of knighthood, comprising those of all the European sovereignties, and Napoleon's decoration of the Legion of Honor, the ribbons of which were entangled with those of the ancient order of St. Louis.†   (source)
  • They were mostly of a felonious character; comprising the pen with which a celebrated forgery had been committed, a distinguished razor or two, some locks of hair, and several manuscript confessions written under condemnation,—upon which Mr. Wemmick set particular value as being, to use his own words, "every one of 'em Lies, sir."†   (source)
  • Before three o'clock the large shed was invaded by the spectators, comprising Europeans and natives, Chinese and Japanese, men, women and children, who precipitated themselves upon the narrow benches and into the boxes opposite the stage.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S, WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow's abrupt exclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was carefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the conversation that ensued: which indeed bore no reference to Oliver's history or prospects, but was…†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 38 Comprises certain particulars arising out of a visit of condolence, which may prove important hereafter.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The first comprises the most theoretical principles, and those more abstract notions whose application is either unknown or very remote.†   (source)
  • ] The Constitution comprises under one head almost all the cases which by their very nature come within the limits of the Federal courts.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The same idiom then comprises a language of the poor and a language of the rich—a language of the citizen and a language of the nobility—a learned language and a vulgar one.†   (source)
  • This comprises all I need say on the subject; except that if I had seen occasion, I had resolved to reprint a few of these details of legal proceedings, from certain old newspapers.†   (source)
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