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- It lies wholly with the customer whether he will injure himself by means of either, or will derive from them the benefits which they will afford him if he uses their possibilities judiciously. [5]
- And the jealousy which, fool that she was, she had desired to arouse in her lover, what abundant nourishment it would derive from the events which had occurred on her return from the festival! [10]
- In a small way we were the same sort of simpletons as those who climb unnecessarily the perilous peaks of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, and derive no pleasure from it except the reflection that it isn't a common experience. [5]
- It was, indeed, very skillfully done, and yet it was a process from which I did not derive, somehow, much pleasure. [9]
- Ralph Hambleton was the only one who took it calmly, who seemed to derive a certain enjoyment from the affair. [9]
- She thinks it's the moral aspect, but it's really the revolutionary aspect, the menace to those precious institutions from which we derive our privileges and comforts. [9]
- Alas, the revenue the government will derive from these half-nomads will never pay the cost of enumerating them. [4]
- He should have taught her to derive happiness from virtue. [10]
- That gentleman had referred to the report made to the House by the Postmaster-General, and had intimated an apprehension that gentlemen would be disposed to rely, on that report alone, and derive their views of the case from that document alone. [7]
- In the first place, of the benefits Diodoros was to derive from the great Galen; then of her father, who this day must dispense with her assistance; and, finally, of the state of mind of her grave brother Philip. [10]
- In the train of these three every lover of horses vanished from the scene, with a number of Hippias' friends, and of flower-sellers, door-keepers, and ticket-holders-in short, of all who expected to derive special pleasure or profit from the games. [10]
- My demands had no object in view but to make you happy and derive comfort from you. [10]
- But you?--I have long striven for courage to tell you so--you derive no benefit from suffering because you lock it up in your breast--as if a man were to enclose some precious seed in a silver trinket to carry about with him. [10]
- He often, however, inhaled deep draughts of a concoction that he had made in the laboratory with his son's letter before him, and as he seemed to derive no benefit from it he would distil it again and mix with it new drugs. [10]
- This fact was impressed upon us by the inhabitants, who derive a good deal of comfort from it. [4]
- To this day I have not ceased to derive pleasure from it, and often I go out of my way, through Burton Street, although the view is cramped. [9]
- The advantage she hoped to derive was well worth the risk. [10]
- 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. [2]
- But whence did he derive the powerful, but indescribable something which gave nobility to his head, and of which it was impossible to say whether it lay in his eye, or in the lofty brow, arched so differently to that of either parent? [10]
- Kings and princes derive their governments from the Church. [9]
- Whence do I, by whose miserable weakness the battle of Actium was lost, derive the right to walk longer beneath the sun? [10]
- Joshua, now recognized by Moses and the whole Hebrew people as the commander of the fighting-men, led his new-formed troops to the widest portion of the valley, which permitted him to derive more advantage from the superior number of his force. [10]
- That the Government and the people will derive great benefit from this change in the banking systems of the country can hardly be questioned. [7]
- It is from an analysis communicated by him to the "Gazette Medicale de Paris" that I derive my acquaintance with the account of the trial at Naples by Dr. Panvini, physician to the Hospital della Pace. [3]
- Mr. Spence paused a moment to light his cigarette, and he seemed to derive infinite pleasure from this juxtaposition. [9]
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