The storm-lights had gone down and a half-deprecatory, half-embarrassed expression, made the face look so quite like any other man's, that Skag smiled.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
"Don't flatter me," said Swann, putting his hand out of the bed-clothes with a deprecatory gesture.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
"The present unworthy holder of the dukedom of Salolja," that person continued, with a deprecatory gesture, "-to leave ancient history behind us-is for the moment in one of those inexpedient positions to which his ancestors were occasionally liable, and from which they invariably took prompt measures to extricate themselves.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay