Do we say comprise or compromise

comprise 181 occurrences

"Yes; those, with a dozen battle cruisers and a score of torpedo boats, comprise the main fleet.

This poem is written in the heroic metre; and the extracts given do certainly comprise some telling and felicitous lines.

Our spaceship is vibrating at the atomic rate of the collective atoms that comprise the material makeup of said ship.

Her books of poems comprise Life-Chords, consisting of "Under His shadow,""Her last poems""Loyal Responses," and "Her earlier poems;" Life Mosaic, comprising "The Ministry of Song," and "Under the Surface;" Swiss Letters and Alpine Poems, written during several tours in Switzerland.

The majority of gentlemen's establishments probably comprise a servant out of livery, or butler, a footman, and coachman, or coachman and groom, where the horses exceed two or three.

"In order that all these forces may comprise a single army, the term of enlistment in the three is equalized and will be for the period of the emergency.

The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary General and such secretaries and staff as may be required.

Meredith's novels comprise the largest and most noteworthy part of his writings.

His works in prose comprise such subjects as literary criticism, education, theology, and social ethics.

Englishmen had a right to know the laws by which they were to be governed; it was easy to collect from the present system all that was really useful; to improve it by necessary additions; and to comprise the whole within the small compass of a pocket volume.

What countries does the island of Great Britain comprise?

The list of artillery implements removed from the arsenals of Douai, Lyon, Besançon, Toulon, and Cherbourg, and forwarded to Versailles from the 18th March to the 21st May, comprise 80 cannons of 0.16m (6 in.

The stories are selected from the five principal narrative poets, Dante, Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso; they comprise the most popular of such as are fit for translation; are reduced into one continuous narrative, when diffused and interrupted, as in the instances of those of Angelica, and Armida; are accompanied with critical and explanatory notes; and, in the case of Dante, consist of an abstract of the poet's whole work.

A paragraph of the version will sometimes comprise many pages.

The works of M. Veyre comprise the various styles of shorter poems.

Each estate therefore, if its owner expected it to last a lifetime, must comprise an area in forestry much larger than that at any one time in tillage.

He was positive the party did not comprise more than fifteen or twenty warriors.

Children, who can focus their eyes on very near objects, must be able to comprise in a single mental image much more than a half of any small object they are examining.

It were to be wished that some man, whose experience and authority might enforce regard, would propose that our encampments for the present year should comprise an equal number of men and women, who should march and fight in mingled bodies.

These inflections comprise three sorts of movements affected by each gesture, which usually unite and constitute a synthetic form.

These comprise an edict of Diana to the effect that any nymph found guilty of a breach of faith shall suffer death at the altar unless some one offers to die in her place; likewise a custom whereby a nymph between fifteen and twenty years of age is annually sacrificed to the goddess.

These three great classes, viz., American Indian natives, Mongolian natives, and Turko-Yakut natives, comprise all the aboriginal inhabitants of north-eastern Siberia except the Kamchadals, the Chuances, and the Yukagirs.

She had been deceived, and in that word, when applied to a young, aspiring, trusting mind, what anguish does it not comprise.

As to the kind of questions arbitrated upon, they comprise most of the hard nuts familiar to students of the Labour problem.

In the case of Scotland, such changes comprise much that is interesting and amusing.

compromise 1698 occurrences

There was a slight hesitation among some of the Leftwho were ardent sympathisers with young Italybut who didn't care to compromise themselves by taking part in a religious ceremony.

The Doctor's StoryA Slippery FishA Lawsuit and a Compromise CHAPTER V.

Let us compromise and call him the Adorned C., in the manner of Mr. Wemmick.

Patricia wore black-and-white for some six months, and Colonel Musgrave accepted the compromise tacitly.

"Above all, remember, Mr. Yankee, that you are in a certain sense a civilian now; you must not compromise us by free speech in Richmond," Rosa added.

If he answered at all, he must compromise Carmel.

He therefore inclined his order of march to the right, so as to enable his right wing and centre to come into collision with the enemy on as favorable terms as possible, although the manoeuvre might in some respect compromise his left.

"Never mind, Louise," she said, with remarkable cheerfulness; "We'll compromise matters.

" The superintendent had just wired instructions to put the outlaw in jail when Mr. Merrick reached the telegraph office, but after an hour spent in sending messages back and forth a compromise was affected and the little millionaire had agreed to pay a goodly sum to the company by way of damages and to satisfy the crew of the freight trainwhich he succeeded in doing by a further outlay of money.

The repast was a compromise between frugality and luxury.

They come of mixed blood, and have been accustomed for many long centuries to settle their differences by compromise and mutual accommodation.

If no decision can be reached, the accused is acquitted for the time, or, in a civil dispute, a compromise is imposed.

"I have listened with great interest to the somewhat flattering remarks of my esteemed fellow members, and have come to the conclusion that, if agreeable to Her Judgeship, a compromise might be effected.

At length sir William by his generous interposition affected a compromise.

And because impatience has been the salvation of the movement, and because the suffragette will not believe that the fiery charger which has carried her so far can not really climb the last ridge of the mountain, but must be replaced by a mulethat miserable compromise between a steed and an anti-suffragistthe awkward age is also the dangerous age.

Evidently a man of great gifts, he knew how and when to yield and how and when to be firm; the compromise which solved the situationat all events, for the timewas mostly his work; statesman and patriot, he saved his country.

Good temper, the wisdom that comes of sober counsel, the energy of thoughtful and unselfish men, the habit of cooperation and of compromise which has been bred in us by long years of free government in which reason rather than passion has been made to prevail by the sheer virtue of candid and universal debate, will enable us to win through to still another great age without violence.

Can we do better than to recommend a compromise, that he may return without delay to his own Calabria?" "The concern is weighty, and it demands deliberation.

It's a compromise, it's an alliance!"

But he shortly afterward dismissed the entire matter from his mind; it would, at best, be but a compromise, an evasion of the pact he had made with himself.

We came to a compromise on the great question, and the time was settled for the last day of summer.

There was no compromise here.

The suit was commenced, and urged to trial, notwithstanding several attempts at compromise on the part of the banker.

I could not compromise my position.

And in the meantime, I compromise, like the rest of the world; and hear Jane making the children every week-day pray that they may become God's children, and then teaching them every Sunday evening the Catechism, which says that they are so already.

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