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  • After an unspecified cataclysm, society has been divided into factions based on character traits: Abnegation, Amity, Dauntless, Erudite and Candor.

    The Scary Future, the Embarrassing Past Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • From the modesty of her upbringing in Abnegation, Beatrice adapts so quickly to the violent atmosphere of the Goth-dressing Dauntless that she begins to attract unwelcome notice from the authorities.

    The Scary Future, the Embarrassing Past Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • Second, as she drifted past us whom should I see aboard her but Abnegation Mings and pulled trigger a moment too late, but winged another o 'the rogues.

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • -- To-day a storm-beat pinnace standing in for my island, and in it Abnegation Mings and divers others of Bartlemy's rogues, survivors

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • "He'll be outside now where the shadows be thickest, waiting me with Abnegation and Sol and Rory, and God knoweth how many more."

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Then, tossing aside his bloody knife, Abnegation Mings struggled to his feet and came staggering to kneel above his comrade Tressady and to turn up the pallid face of him to the moon.

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • But suddenly they fell silent all for Abnegation was hailing feebly, and was come so nigh that we might see him, his face all bloody, his knees bending under him with weakness as he stumbled on.

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • So they bore him, together with Tressady, to the pinnace, and setting them aboard, shoved them adrift, and I watched Abnegation ply feeble oars until the boat was through the passage in the reef and out in the open sea beyond.

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • And here again their vile song burst forth with much the same obscenity as I had once heard sung by Abnegation

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Abnegation Mings (Mate of A determined mind. the "Vengeance" galley) 3 Musquets with powder and shot

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

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