He went on analyzing his characteristics, talking with great interest in the subject, and after a didactic style, but not with the heavy egoistic method that he had often employed years ago.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
And the same author says elsewhere: "The anti-social, egoistic development of the individual predisposes to, if it does not predetermine, the mental degeneracy of his progeny; he, alien from his kind by excessive egoisms, determines an alienation of mind in them.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
Charlotte, a wild, torn, drenched figure, stood contemplating her for a moment, half in contempt; then, as the burden of the other's cry pierced her brain, a sudden wave of pity and affection swept aside the egoistic defiance of her mood.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee