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Mr. Anstruther had deprecated the idea of Mrs. Danvers sitting up, but she had averred that she had no desire either to go to bed or to sleep.

From The Rebellion of Margaret by Twidle, Arthur

The impassioned and vehement anxiety with which, in former days, she had deprecated the vengeance of her lover against Wiatte, rung in my ears.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

He should have looked humbly at her, and with meek entreating eye had deprecated her anger.

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony

There he was buried on June 14, without the slightest attempt at the pomp which he had deprecated in his will, and which he almost fiercely condemned in more than one of his writings.

From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

But well that Mardonius had deprecated the wrath of the monarch.

From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns