Check and recheck, followed long periods of brooding forced him unwillingly into some dim comprehension of astronomical magnitudes.

The story of the dark ages of the human mind is the story of man's dim comprehension that he was more than an animal, but it is a story told against a background of mass animal actions, rooted in a pattern of narrow animal identifications.

He still had only a dim comprehension of orbital mechanics.

After giving us an excerpt from another eyewitness account - of Jews packed in cattle cars on the way to the death camps - Mendelsohn writes: "Whatever we see in museums, the artifacts and the evidence, can give us only the dimmest comprehension of what the event itself was like.

To his dim comprehension they were as much wonder-workers as gods are to men.

I was getting a dim comprehension of the difference between Hallie and me.

But finally they both nodded a sort of dim comprehension and, with a shrug of hope and despair, I shoved them toward the Uandakuari.

The princess smiled at Ptath, who had followed the conversation with a dim comprehension.

T'sais looked again in dim comprehension.

His suicide came 10 years later, but it was always - even in my dim childish comprehension - an inevitability.