abstemiously
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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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In a viable writer's show like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever notice."
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There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride.
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There are, again, some that eat very abstemiously, for only keeping body and soul together.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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 John Dunlop
