1 Now, if to this consideration you superadd the official supremacy of a ship-master, then, by inference, you will derive the cause of that peculiarity of sea-life just mentioned.
2 On the contrary, those motions derive their most appalling beauty from it.
3 He reluctantly admitted that he could not sit still and with a mental slate and pencil derive an answer.
4 Words derive from St. Augustine's.
5 Rebecca, thou canst derive no benefit from the evidence of this unhappy knight, for whom, as we well perceive, the Enemy is yet too powerful.
6 She felt the want of his society every day, almost every hour, and was too much in want of it to derive anything but irritation from considering the object for which he went.
7 She did not mean, however, to derive much more from it to gratify her vanity, than Mary might have allowed.
8 I could not derive benefit from the late knowledge I had acquired of your character.
9 Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE 10 That person is the person from whom you derive your expectations, and the secret is solely held by that person and by me.
11 We shall try to understand them fully during these few days so that we may derive from the understanding of them a lasting benefit to our souls.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 12 All the benefit he might derive from a course of treatment he would lose as a result of the disputes about Buonaparte which would be inevitable.
13 Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP 14 While exclaiming loudly against duels and brawls, they excited them secretly to quarrel, deriving an immoderate satisfaction or genuine regret from the success or defeat of their own combatants.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE 15 In no instance, let us say, was this worthy gentleman accused of deriving personal advantage from the cooperation of his minions.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE