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.

• That set of claims about what law necessarily does strikes me, incidentally, as ver y abstemious.

• The considerable lower divorce risks experienced by moderate drinkers (as compared with their more abstemious counterparts) are apparent only at higher marriage durations.

• Territorials are, of course, extremely abstemious people, but after a spell in the drill hall they sometimes like to have a pint of beer.

• There is no point in being abstemious if one is going to lose badly.

• One can drink a bottle of light wine to one glass of port and it is more abstemious to drink port in those circumstances.

• I believe the people of my country are as sober and abstemious as the people of any other country.

• Judged on any international comparison, whether in relation to spirits, wines or beer, we are still a relatively abstemious nation.

• To add insult to injury, the sums of money these people have been paying themselves make the directors of our national utilities look positively abstemious.

• We have been extraordinarily abstemious.

• We were very abstemious—teetotallers and non-smokers.

• This was partly possible because of his abstemious habits, eschewing both tobacco and strong drink.

• The pair's increasingly erratic behavior distressed their more abstemious father, and the worry weakened him.