Sentence:  Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, <WSD>comprised</WSD> the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To compose, to constitute. "See usage note below."