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Meanings of great temperance in English

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Usage of great temperance in English
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Waverley was unaccustomed to the use of wine, excepting with great temperance.
Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1
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I want you to go with me to-night to this great temperance meeting.
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
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He's the Rector, you know; a great temperance man.
The Inheritors
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Without being robust, thanks to his great temperance, he has kept his health uninjured since his birth.
Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery
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I have a notion, that by very great temperance, or more properly abstinence, he may yet recover.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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He was a great temperance man, but recommended a little wine to Timothy for the stomach's sake.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders
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The day that followed the great temperance meeting was one full of excitement to the operatives of Crossbourne.
True to his Colours / The Life that Wears Best
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The great temperance leader went to speak to him and said "Edward, why don't you pray?"
And Judas Iscariot / Together with other evangelistic addresses
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The Grand River cornet band, and ours, played, alternately, their angelic melodies, to cheer us in the great temperance cause.
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, a...
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They attracted, however, little notice beyond that of James Teare, Caine's uncle, the great temperance reformer, who admired them justly.
McClure's Magazine December, 1895
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Though he lived in a state of pecuniary independence, he gave an example of great temperance, as well as of great humility of mind.
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol...
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With such leaders, under God, and with the true end kept steadily in view, Christian women ought not to fail in their great temperance work.
Two Decades / A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the W...
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I suppose there wasn't a greater temperance advocate in town.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
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Of the Public Messes he abolished some altogether and reformed others so that greater temperance prevailed.
Dio's Rome, Volume 4 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
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But intemperance remained the curse of the workingman down to the days of Van Buren and Tyler, when a greater temperance movement began.
A Brief History of the United States
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