Meanings of derive comfort in English

The vulgar have strange sources from which to derive comfort.

In the season of winter they derive comfort from fire, warm clothes, and the sun.

They don't deny their impending fate but derive comfort from simple acts of love and care.

Instinctively he turned his steps toward St. George's Hall, as if from its contemplation he could derive comfort.

This would humble me; yet conscious that I had acted rightly I would easily derive comfort from that conviction.

She also listened with pleasure to some pieces of poetry which were read, and amongst them appeared to derive comfort from the hymn beginning,-

She derived comfort from the thought that Dorothy was eight-and-twenty and not married.

But the very sources whence he should have derived comfort and peace were fountains of disquiet.

It is reported that one derives comfort from his confessional, and I for my part believe it.

And Mrs Verloc waited in silence the good pleasure of her saviour, deriving comfort from his reflective silence.

Amidst all the troubles of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, Pitt derived comfort from the signs of returning prosperity.

On the tabletop, their hands were tightly clasped, as if they were both dispensing and deriving comfort from the contact.

Creb and Iza tried to fill it with closeness, deriving comfort from contact with each other, but it was small comfort.

In spite of the cruellest inflictions of Fate, I derived comfort from her looks, and from the conviction that I now possessed her undivided affection.