Example Sentences

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I am pursuing your directions and hope that I am deriving benefit from them.

From Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Lee, Robert Edward, General

"It is beautiful indeed, my dear boy; and I am deriving both refreshment and instruction while I look around me."

From Choice Readings for the Home Circle by Anonymous