"And I shall most cheerfully abdicate," said he.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
To-morrow I abdicate," she continued, with a strange little sigh, half-tearful, half-joyous, "to-morrow I shall own a master.
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
I should not ask you to abdicate your authority, but I tell you frankly I should follow all the operations of your house very closely indeed.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain