All 9 Uses of
temperance
in
Jude the Obscure
- This being the turning over a new leaf he duly looked about for a temperance hotel, and found a little establishment of that description in the street leading from the station.†
Part 3 *
- I thought of that, and I wired for a room for us at the Temperance Hotel there.†
Part 4
- "I can't possibly go to that Temperance Inn, after your telegraphing that message!"†
Part 4
- As she would not go to the Temperance Hotel because of the form of his telegram, Jude inquired for another; and a youth who volunteered to find one wheeled their luggage to the George farther on, which proved to be the inn at which Jude had stayed with Arabella on that one occasion of their meeting after their division for years.†
Part 4
- Looking up from the quilt she pouted provokingly: "If it hadn't been for that, perhaps I would have gone on to the Temperance Hotel, after all, as you proposed; for I was beginning to think I did belong to you!"†
Part 4
- But I shan't go to the Temperance Hotel!"†
Part 4
- At this hour a light trap, among other vehicles, was driven into the town by the north road, and up to the door of a temperance inn.†
Part 5
- You can't get much at these temperance houses."†
Part 5
- It was two hours later on the same day that Anny and Mrs. Cartlett, having had tea at the Temperance Hotel, started on their return journey across the high and open country which stretches between Kennetbridge and Alfredston.†
Part 5
Definition:
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(temperance) not drinking alcohol because it is thought to be harmful
or:
moderation (not doing something excessively) -- such as not eating or drinking too much