abstemiously

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There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride.

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In a viable writer's show like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever notice."

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The Cardinal lived abstemiously in a top-floor apartment, worked on his memoirs and a history of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary.

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A similar outcry was, in later ages, raised by one of his opponents against Malebranche, who, like Epicurus, lived not merely temperately, but abstemiously.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

They subsist abstemiously upon wild herbs and fruits and roots and leaves of diverse kinds.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan