Indeed, some are still unaware that they are the complements of each other.
But these twocomplements are not always separated by a sharp line, and the same dative may sometimes be referred indifferently to either head.
Complements may be roughly distinguished as essential or optional.
Still, as we have seen, the number of men employed on board a naval armament in the old times far exceeded the united complements of a modern fleet.
And then her enemies, by the offer of higher pay, could half unman the Athenian ships, and improve their own complements on the very eve of decisive operations.
Aeschylus in his next Play complements his Country with a great deal of Address in the Persons of the Eumenides.
And many French complements they used, and congees they made; and in y^e ende, seeing but 3.
Complements of the Crews of both Ships, and Names of the Officers.
Whichever of these two things precedes, complements the other.
Boys and girls, men and women, are complements of each other.
Thine in all complements of deuoted and heart-burning heat of dutie.
Harmony] This may be because of the necessary complements in colours, which we see in nature, and which prepossess the eye, and make it demand these modifications to satisfy the sense of harmony.
Over and above their complements of sailors and marines, these ships had on board an old Spanish regiment of foot, intended to reinforce the garrisons on the coast of the South-Sea.
It was my chance to sit on the weather side; fain would I have exchanged my place, but such complements are useless in a storm; so that I was constrained to endure patiently the indignation of my raging enemy.
The question then that naturally arises is--If the navy did not fill up its complements from the merchant service, how did it fill them up?
Respect him not so; for as he is a Gentleman he is noble; as he is wealthily furnished with true knowledge, he is rich, and therein adorn'd with the exactest complements belonging to everlasting noblenesse.
An Accident that will make pollicie blush, And all the Complements of wealth and state, In the succesfull and unnumbred Race That shall flow from it, fild with fame and grace.
The complements of nouns, adjectives, or participial adjectives, usually follow them.
The ideal conditions cannot be reached, unless the full complements have been kept on board, and the ships required to make frequent cruises.
For instance, the requirements of fire-control have within very recent years compelled the addition of a considerable number of men to the complements of battleships.
This Roman history is hard and prosaic; it was never clad with these ideological complements which were suited to Greek life.
Tame, an infinite number of concepts serving as means of explanation and as complements to the things related have been imposed upon the narrators by the natural voices of their immediate thought.
There is also a statement of the tonnage and complements of ships intended for an expedition to Guienne in the year 1324, which throws some light on the size of the vessels employed in the Scottish expedition.
More than half of them had complements of two constables and thirty-nine mariners, and the smallest had one constable and nineteen mariners.
One of Her Majesty's Yachts, and all Two-decked Ships whose war complements consist of 700 men and upwards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "complements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
