Nor must I avoid mentioning what, I grieve to say, rather derogates from the grave and honourable character of these ancient gentlefolk; that, during the architectural season, they are subject to great dissensions among themselves; that they make no scruple to defraud and plunder each other; and that sometimes the rookery is a scene of hideous brawl and commotion, in consequence of some delinquency of the kind.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Even some of her admirers admit a want of straightforwardness in her; she has no passion, which rather derogates from the merit of her conduct in any case; and though she is abominably ill-treated by almost everybody, one's pity for her never comes very near to love.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
This with me derogates little, or rather nothing at all, from the political value and importance of the fact.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke