However ungracious the task of disparaging the accuracy of your view, I have no other alternative but to accept it, and hence I am forced to pen these lines myself in preference to committing the office to another.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
I do not regard those buried notes as being proof or as being particularly valuable, except as proving Peary to be one of the most ungracious and selfish characters in history.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
It sounds very ungracious, doesn't it?
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton