COMPREHEND in JANE EYRE - verbalworkout.com

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to understand something — especially to understand it completely

I could not quite comprehend it
Chapter 24 (7% in)

comprehend = understand completely

Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.
Chapter 1 (33% in)
I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere; for I too liked reading, though of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
Chapter 5 (80% in)
I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.
Chapter 6 (51% in)
And then my mind made its first earnest effort to comprehend what had been infused into it concerning heaven and hell; and for the first time it recoiled, baffled; and for the first time glancing behind, on each side, and before it, it saw all round an unfathomed gulf: it felt the one point where it stood — the present; all the rest was formless cloud and vacant depth; and it shuddered at the thought of tottering, and plunging amid that chaos.
Chapter 9 (55% in)
It opened clear on my comprehension that Helen Burns was numbering her last days in this world, and that she was going to be taken to the region of spirits, if such region there were.
Chapter 9 (61% in)
Only one thing, I know: you said you were not as good as you should like to be, and that you regretted your own imperfection; — one thing I can comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane.
Chapter 14 (78% in)
"I will put her to some test," thought I: "such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension."
Chapter 16 (12% in)
Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.
Chapter 21 (1% in)
Such a burden to be left on my hands — and so much annoyance as she caused me, daily and hourly, with her incomprehensible disposition, and her sudden starts of temper, and her continual, unnatural watchings of one's movements!
Chapter 21 (54% in)
"If you could but be persuaded to think no more of it, aunt, and to regard me with kindness and forgiveness" "You have a very bad disposition," said she, "and one to this day I feel it impossible to understand: how for nine years you could be patient and quiescent under any treatment, and in the tenth break out all fire and violence, I can never comprehend."
Chapter 21 (95% in)
Mr. Rochester had sometimes read my unspoken thoughts with an acumen to me incomprehensible: in the present instance he took no notice of my abrupt vocal response; but he smiled at me with a certain smile he had of his own, and which he used but on rare occasions.
Chapter 22 (76% in)
"And though I don't comprehend how it is, I perceive you have acquired a degree of regard for that foolish little child Adele, too; and even for simple dame Fairfax?"
Chapter 23 (27% in)
Something had happened which I could not comprehend; no one knew of or had seen the event but myself: it had taken place the preceding night.
Chapter 25 (8% in)
I could comprehend the feeling, and share both its strength and truth.
Chapter 30 (7% in)
In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension.
Chapter 30 (13% in)
"But you comprehend me?" he said.
Chapter 30 (70% in)
Some time elapsed before, with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature.
Chapter 32 (1% in)
He took it up with a snatch; he looked at the edge; then shot a glance at me, inexpressibly peculiar, and quite incomprehensible: a glance that seemed to take and make note of every point in my shape, face, and dress; for it traversed all, quick, keen as lightning.
Chapter 32 (97% in)
I waited, expecting he would say something I could at least comprehend; but his hand was now at his chin, his finger on his lip: he was thinking.
Chapter 33 (10% in)
It is a fine thing, reader, to be lifted in a moment from indigence to wealth — a very fine thing; but not a matter one can comprehend, or consequently enjoy, all at once.
Chapter 33 (43% in)
I walked fast through the room: I stopped, half suffocated with the thoughts that rose faster than I could receive, comprehend, settle them:— thoughts of what might, could, would, and should be, and that ere long.
Chapter 33 (73% in)
Perhaps, if you explained yourself a little more fully, I should comprehend better.
Chapter 33 (80% in)
My first aim will be to CLEAN DOWN (do you comprehend the full force of the expression?
Chapter 34 (6% in)
As I looked at his lofty forehead, still and pale as a white stone — at his fine lineaments fixed in study — I comprehended all at once that he would hardly make a good husband: that it would be a trying thing to be his wife.
Chapter 34 (18% in)
I comprehended how he should despise himself for the feverish influence it exercised over him; how he should wish to stifle and destroy it; how he should mistrust its ever conducting permanently to his happiness or hers.
Chapter 34 (19% in)
When I remembered how far I had once been admitted to his confidence, I could hardly comprehend his present frigidity.
Chapter 34 (33% in)
I saw his fallibilities: I comprehended them.
Chapter 34 (84% in)

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