Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy …distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
puhekieltä To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.
(w) (1688-1744)
Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain.
Sir (w) (ca.1554-1618)
The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.