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"Deprecation" Quotes from Famous Books

... adversaries, by the wonderful firmness of his conduct upon his trial, and his spirited resolution not to submit to any thing indirect and pusillanimous. He defended himself with a serene countenance and the most cogent arguments, but would not stoop to deprecation and intreaty. When sentence was pronounced against him, this did not induce the least alteration of his conduct. He did not think that a life which he had passed for seventy years with a clear conscience, was worth preserving by the sacrifice of honour. He refused to escape from prison, ...

— Lives of the Necromancers • William Godwin

... look of deprecation about him, that she exclaimed, 'One would really think you had been accepting this ...

— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge

... "Well, you mightn't guess it from my looks," he answered with an attempt to ingratiate himself by way of self-deprecation, "but I am pretty good at working ...

— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... as if recalled from an abstraction, Susanna gave a little laugh,—what seemed a slightly annoyed, half-apologetic little laugh,—and lifted her hands in a gesture of deprecation, of self-reprehension. ...

— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland

... just now, in deprecation of set courses of reading, was designed for private students only, who so often find a stereotyped sequence of books barren or uninteresting. It was not intended to discourage the pursuit of a special course of study in the school, or the society, or the reading class. This is, ...

— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

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