I must write to Fanny and tell her, in spite of her deprecations, just how perfect and rare and priceless a fact I know her existence in this Universe eternally to be.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
Verus listened to Apollodorus with increasing attention, and fixed a keen gaze on the young man, who interrupted his host's eager encomium with many modest deprecations.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
Brutus in the meantime gained Caesar's forgiveness for his friend Cassius; and pleading also in defense of the king of the Lybians, though he was overwhelmed with the greatness of the crimes alleged against him, yet by his entreaties and deprecations to Caesar in his behalf, he preserved to him a great part of his kingdom.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh