How To Use Abstemious In A Sentence
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Dowd has repeatedly mocked Obama's "abstemious" tastes and how these set him apart from the great, fat, American mainstream:
John McQuaid: Dowd: More Big Macs for Barack
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January's abstemiousness has grown in relation to Christmas's excess, an increasingly commercialised response to the very commercialism that we're all feeling so hung over from.
Broken resolutions can be good for you | Hephzibah Anderson
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He had never in his life been so abstemious, nor so single-minded.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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Kept alive today more by photographers than painters, it began to emit its last gasps as a vehicle for Pop Artists in the 1960s and 1970s who wanted to revel in a consumer mania that made those Netherlandish gluttons look abstemious.
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he ate and drank abstemiously
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Walter, for I know he has a thousand things, and I a thousand nothings, to do; but I hope to see him at Abbotsford before very long, and I will sweat his claret for him, though Italian abstemiousness has made my brain but a shilpit concern for a Scotch sitting 'inter pocula.'
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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That is not to suggest that I am a model of abstemiousness who has never made an idiot of himself after five too many.
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He took seriously his pledge made at the outset of the war that he would live a frugal and abstemious existence as long as the war lasted.
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But this here New York was inaugurated on the idea of abstemiousness in regard to the parts of speech.
Sixes and Sevens
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Taylor portrays Hitler as a sour, arrogant, abstemious spoilsport and friend to small animals.
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The vocabulary of integral space is luxuriant, rich, enchanting and do not break abstemious, faint emerge those who moving romance is passional .
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I would follow the same abstemious regime, but unlike him I don't have an accommodating housekeeper.
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When he sits down to celebrate his 40th birthday next Wednesday, this most abstemious of professionals can raise a glass to himself and genuinely declare he could not have done any more or any better.
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Dowd has repeatedly mocked Obama's "abstemious" tastes and how these set him apart from the great, fat, American mains ...
John McQuaid: Dowd: More Big Macs for Barack
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Left to my own devices, I am an abstemious person, as innocent as a baby and jaw-droppingly naive.
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Jake made up for any parental abstemiousness though.
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He does not seem to smoke or drink, although he has downplayed his abstemiousness since joining the drinks group.
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In Ms. Cappello's book, Jackson comes across as a complete, complex individual: In addition to being an innovative physician, he was an amateur painter, a nonsmoking teetotaler,and an abstemious eater whose sandwiches included exactly one lettuce leaf.
Medicine
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Anne Fowler, who was always abstemious, was having much the same thought.
UNTO THE GRAVE
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Ken, meanwhile, was living a more abstemious existence on stage.
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We only had four bottles of wine - due to the wine service rather than any abstemiousness on our part.
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New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
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The second one, "abstemious" I more or less gleaned, also from context, but also because it's close to "abstain", which is near to what it means.
Archive 2008-11-01
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Four years, or so, of abstemiousness, enable them to stand an election dinner; and there is no hope of broken heads among a score or two of quiet electors, who settle the business over a table.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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It turns out Fields was a huge admirer of hers, but their approaches to comedy, and life, were poles apart - Fields being a master of excess and West a paragon of abstemiousness.
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There's still the same warm smile and shock of black hair, and there's clearly something to be said for her abstemious lifestyle for she looks a decade younger than it says on her birth certificate.
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There is no evidence, however, that a single drinking bout in an otherwise abstemious person will lead to pancreatitis.
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With a rich family and a father who owned a huge whaling fleet, Hetty was raised with an abstemiousness that belied their wealth but money was certainly of interest to her.
Erica Heller: "The Witch of Wall Street," a Cautionary Tale for Tough Times?
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The bill for our relatively abstemious meal worked out, with a tip, at nearly 40 leva a head.
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The abstemious Saint Pius V persecuted Jews, burned books and heretics, waged religious war, and banned debate on theological issues such as the Immaculate Conception.
Delizia!
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abstemious with the use of adverbs
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However, it was the abstemious Chartist family, the Cranstons, who really put the coffee houses' adversaries, the Glasgow tea rooms, on the map in the 1890s.
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the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious
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My main support now is Phil, an abstemious, Welsh dancer who seems quite pleased that I share one of his lifestyle choices.
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not totally abstinent but abstemious
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In other words, Macfadden preached a sort of liberated abstemiousness -- as the subtitle of "Mr. America" has it, he "transformed the nation through sex, salad and the ultimate starvation diet.
Strong Circulation
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No one need go far in search of proofs that this kind of abstemious living is not merely possible, but far less hurtful to health than excess.
The Kreutzer Sonata
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Yet Italy's society is hardly less dynamic than Spain's, so other factors must explain its comparative abstemiousness.
The Dry Character of Italian Social Life
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I considered a 48 hour fast, however decided that any gain that would be attained from this abstemious behaviour would be completely off-set by the onslaught of DT's that this effort would inevitably induce.
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Breakfast wasn't "eaten" it was "got across your chest", a fried culinary flak jacket of bacon, fried eggs, toast with butter, slices of black pudding, an abstemious blob of HP Sauce.
How Britain fell in love with breakfast
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A close family member confirmed that she lived a fairly simple and abstemious life, and spent some years in a nursing home before her death in May 1998.
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The fact is that I am a little overfed; but the stranger in the tropics cannot eat like a native, and my abstemiousness is a surprise.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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It turns out Fields was a huge admirer of hers, but their approaches to comedy, and life, were poles apart - Fields being a master of excess and West a paragon of abstemiousness.
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Colbert is the opposite of Fouquet, abstemious, quiet, and utterly without charisma, working in the background to depreciate Fouquet's popularity like a rat gnawing at the woodwork.
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There is a trend for alcohol limits to become tighter - a trend more related to the increasing sobriety of the wider political climate than to the emergence of epidemiological evidence justifying a more abstemious policy.
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The vocabulary of integral space is luxuriant, rich, enchanting and do not break abstemious, faint emerge those who moving romance is passional .
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Robinson, famed for his Christian beliefs and his abstemious lifestyle, also found time to have lunch with his mother, who still lives in Leeds.
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Anne Fowler, who was always abstemious, was having much the same thought.
UNTO THE GRAVE
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Judged alongside their abstemious Anglo-Saxon counterparts, they were seen as unruly, belligerent and not to be relied on, a slur that was extended to generations through media distortion and police discrimination.
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New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
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He insists it was an "abstemious" occasion, but warm beer was put in a bucket of ice and then Dr Calder knocked the bucket and one of the corks shot out and hit him in the eye, blinding it.
Kiwiblog
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Dalton was said to be abstemious but did indulge in a game of bowls on a Thursday.
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In personality they were frugal, abstemious, shrewd, accumulative, and solitary.
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New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
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Our word jealousies contains all the vowels, though three of them only were necessary; nevertheless in the two words abstemiously and facetiously the vowels exist all of them in their usual order, and are pronounced in their most usual manner.
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
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Josiah Harlan was a pacifist, abstemious Pennsylvania Quaker stricken with a profound case of wanderlust.
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Koran: -- '_Eat ye and drink ye, but not to an excess_:' -- eat not so voraciously that the food shall be regorged from thy mouth, nor so abstemiously that from depletion life shall desert thee: -- though food be the means of preserving breath in the body.
The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
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Warrior katsinas arrive to punish the clowns for licentious behavior and teach them good Hopi behavior: modest and quiet in conduct, careful and decorous in speech, abstemious and sharing about food, and unselfish about other things.
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Ken, meanwhile, was living a more abstemious existence on stage.
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Both were abstemious by nature, but knew how to enjoy themselves and were interesting company.
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Archibald is moved by the inappropriateness of the gift; he is known as the most abstemious man around.
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In the meantime, after this one relapse at Benicia, I went on with my abstemiousness, primarily because I didn't want to drink.
Chapter 23
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Hence, the exclusive outlet is track the new type path of eco - industrialization and constructs abstemious society.
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He took seriously his pledge made at the outset of the war that he would live a frugal and abstemious existence as long as the war lasted.
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He is abstemious in eating and drinking.
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January's abstemiousness has grown in relation to Christmas's excess, an increasingly commercialised response to the very commercialism that we're all feeling so hung over from.
Broken resolutions can be good for you | Hephzibah Anderson
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We have 3 versions of Dr Cooper's medicinal compound this time - one brewed by Pete, one by Steve and one by Jasper - and we think that with proper abstemiousness abstention? or maybe that's just for the polliesthe supply will get us to Dutch.
NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2008 Archives
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He had never in his life been so abstemious, nor so single-minded.
THE HELLBOUND HEART