"No, I'll be hanged if I am," protested the Abnegating Peckover.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
He wanted the glory of founding a great empire and he loved to think of his name as that of the first legitimate monarch who was really self-Abnegating enough to establish constitutional government of his own free will.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
"I have not the grand self-Abnegating spirit necessary for such a work.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.