Paul detested her with intense seriousness; he honoured her with his earnest fury; he pursued her vindictively and implacably, refusing to rest peaceably in his bed, to derive due benefit from his meals, or even serenely to relish his cigar, till she was fairly rooted out of the establishment.
" "I mean well; and, if you see that I mean well, and derive some little amusement from my efforts, why can we not be friends?
And yet—" "And yet, as we can derive no advantage from an eruption, it might be better it should not take place," said the reporter.
'" He seemed to derive a great deal of comfort from his reflections and Dick's visit.
Havisham had begun to derive a great deal of private pleasure and amusement from his society.
" Then the brutal minions of the law fell upon the hapless Toad; loaded him with chains, and dragged him from the Court House, shrieking, praying, protesting; across the marketplace, where the playful populace, always as severe upon detected crime as they are sympathetic and helpful when one is merely "wanted," assailed him with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words; past hooting school children, their innocent faces lit up with the pleasure they ever derive from the sight of a gentleman in
There are several ways to derive such numbers, but the latest study uses a combination of two fundamental quantities which can be measured directly: an element's atomic radius and a property called electronegativity which describes how strongly an atom attracts electrons to itself.
For natural selection to favor the evolution of mimicry, the mimicry must derive a reproductive advantage from modeling itself after another organism or object: its fitness, measured as the number of offspring produced that survive into the next generation, must be increased as the result of deception.
Think of all the benefits you can derive from scoring high grades.
The British Museum is launching an initiative intended to counter the perception that its collections derive only from looted treasures.
But in the short term, the shortages derive from Beijing's ambitious attempt to redesign the energy-use patterns of much of the northern half of the country.
We know that almost all the cells in the human body require energy, and they derive this energy from the sugars in the food we eat.
All living flowers ultimately derive from a single ancestor that lived about 140 million years ago, a study suggests.
Machine learning systems derive insights from large amounts of data.
can maximise both their managerial effectiveness and the pleasure they derive from their jobs," he wrote last year.
It will be able to derive all knowledge in the world — past, present, and future — from data.
Think of all the benefits you can derive from scoring high grades.
That is why they make sure to derive the most benefit out of what they are learning.
Interestingly, recent research suggests smarter people tend to derive less satisfaction than most people do from socializing with friends.
For natural selection to favor the evolution of mimicry, the mimicry must derive a reproductive advantage from modeling itself after another organism or object: its fitness, measured as the number of offspring produced that survive into the next generation, must be increased as the result of deception.
