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Today it's raining, the thin, abstemious rain of early April.† (source)
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You still have the touch; you may remain abstemious if you must, much as it pains me.† (source)
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The peasants were still living exactly as they had in colonial times, and had not heard of unions, or Sundays off, or the minimum wage; but now delegates from the new-formed parties of the left, disguised as evangelicals, were beginning to infiltrate the haciendas, with a Bible tucked under one armpit and Marxist pamphlets under the other, simultaneously preaching the abstemious life and revolution or death.† (source)
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He did not smoke, and of course he did not drink; indeed, he had never tasted spirits, and was inclined to avoid people who had-a circumstance that did not shrink his social circle as much as might be supposed, for the center of that circle was supplied by the members of Garden City's First Methodist Church, a congregation totaling seventeen hundred, most of whom were as abstemious as Mr. Clutter could desire.† (source)
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For a healthful diet, he told the abstemious Rush, he believed, like the doctors of his youth, in milk and vegetables, "with very little animal food and still less spiritous liquors."† (source)
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She had begun to drink, not heavily—what she drank did not even hesitantly slur her speech—but the three or four mild glasses of whiskey and water she downed during that gray wet afternoon comprised a surprising departure for one who, like Nathan, had been relatively abstemious.† (source)
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Be more abstemious, or else ...† (source)
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The reader will perceive that I am treating the subject rather from an economic than a dietetic point of view, and he will not venture to put my abstemiousness to the test unless he has a well-stocked larder.† (source)abstemiousness = the quality of not doing too much of something such as eating or drinkingstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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And so to become inured to a narrow and abstemious life in so doing.† (source)
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"Their singular abstemiousness and temperance," said De Bracy, forgetting the plan which promised him a Saxon bride.† (source)
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Poor devil,' smiled the abstemious Philip.† (source)
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You know me: I am busy from morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.† (source)
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Mr. Wrench, generally abstemious, often drank wine rather freely at a party, getting the more irritable in consequence.† (source)
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Hardy and docile for his genus; abstemious and patient, even for his humble species.† (source)
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And still thy duteous course pursue, Abstemious, humble, kind, and true.† (source)
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If yet Achilles have a friend, whose care Is bent to please him, this request forbear; Till yonder sun descend, ah, let me pay To grief and anguish one abstemious day.† (source)
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