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abstemious
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  • "Poor devil,' smiled the abstemious Philip.†   (source)
  • You know me: I am busy from morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.†   (source)
  • Hardy and docile for his genus; abstemious and patient, even for his humble species.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wrench, generally abstemious, often drank wine rather freely at a party, getting the more irritable in consequence.†   (source)
  • That, carnivorous," he continued, glancing his eye at the open page of his tablets; "this, granivorous; habits, fierce, dangerous; habits, patient, abstemious; ears, inconspicuous; ears, elongated; horns, diverging, &c.†   (source)
  • It was ill-chosen; for Mr. Brooke was an abstemious man, and to drink a second glass of sherry quickly at no great interval from the first was a surprise to his system which tended to scatter his energies instead of collecting them.†   (source)
  • Must be abstemious to sing.†   (source)
  • Look, thou be true; do not give dalliance Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw To th' fire i' the blood: be more abstemious, Or else good night your vow!†   (source)
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