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She lived “as harshly and simply and self-denyingly as Leo Tolstoy,” she said in admiration of the world-famous writer, who was likewise excommunicated for decrying the man who sells liquor.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2021

And she is so self-denyingly careful of her Harriet!

From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel

At Maudeley he found Flaxman awaiting him, and the two passed into the library, where Rose, though bubbling over with question and conjecture, self-denyingly refrained from joining them.

From The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

That Faith did not know the meaning of tragedy, was a fact which she wisely and self-denyingly kept to herself, and for the present turned her attention to supplying her mother with a fresh waffle.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

How painfully I have struggled on—how prayerfully, how patiently, how self-denyingly, you can never know.

From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)