abstemiously
Example Sentences
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There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Cardinal lived abstemiously in a top-floor apartment, worked on his memoirs and a history of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a viable writer's show like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever notice."
From Time Magazine Archive
Gilmore had quitted the McBride cottage some three hours before, and in the interim had breakfasted well and napped abstemiously.
From The Just and the Unjust by M. Leone Bracker
It is very excellent, but so rich even in this state, that, like the tunny marinée, it is necessary either to taste abstemiously, or die heroically of indigestion.
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
