He dashes into the lists with good-humoured confidence, bearing the banner of clear common sense, and Disclaiming sympathy with extreme persons of either side.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
And Tonelli, taken in his weak point of literature, could make but a feeble pretence of Disclaiming the child of his fancy, while the Paronsina, being in this reckless humor, more than once responded to the Doctor in such fashion that in the end the inspiration of her altered and amended letter was Tonelli's.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
The man half smiled as he shook a slow-Disclaiming head-one that would have remembered so gladly, if it could.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan