Hitherto he had been too deeply concerned with his own egotism, his own cruelty, his own remorse, to give thought to hers.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Perhaps it is the human desire to excel others, to prove, because of the innate egotism of the human unit, that one possesses qualities of brain and muscle which no other possesses, that has crazed men to perform this, the most difficult physical test in the world.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
It is not so with the child, though youth generally is, and well may be, the season for egotism.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse