abstemious betydelse and definition

Exempel på abstemious

• He was sober and abstemious in his food, and simple to an extreme in his garments. 

• His life was as abstemious and regular as his means were small. 

• It is acknowledged even by his enemies, that in regard to wine, he was abstemious. 

• One object that I had in view in adopting my abstemious way of life was to save a little money to buy books. 

• Though compactly built, he was generally spare and wasted from incessant studies, hard labor, and an abstemious life. 

• His choice of breakfast foods became more abstemious and of wine more that of an oenophile.

• Although she is not exactly a spinster, there is definitely something abstemious to her.

• I am not concerned here either to work out a complete view of what law must necessarily do or to defend my abstemious suggestions.