Significados de more abstemious en inglés

JG: We're all much more abstemious with drink than we used to be.

A more abstemious woman, my lords, I believe does not live.

But Malcolm refused this refreshment-noman was more abstemious than he.

There is not under the roof of the Tuileries a more abstemious eater or drinker.

Then cigars and soda-and-brandy became common and our young friend was not more abstemious than others.

He had already finished one bottle, and listened, pleasantly flushed, to his emphatic and more abstemious chief.

The restrictions of more abstemious times have relegated the ancient bar to dust, the idle awl to slow-consuming rust.

Nor was the terrible Barney likely to be more abstemious for signal punishment sustained in a far from bloodless victory.

No man could be more abstemious than Pitt; yet the profusion of his kitchen was a wonder even to epicures.

When on a hunting-excursion, his favourite occupation, the Shah is even more abstemious, going sometimes a whole day without food of any kind.

The Normans were a more polished, a more abstemious people; as scribes and architects they were men to whom this district was greatly indebted.

Be more abstemious, or else...

"It is my one indulgence; in other respects I challenge any man to be more abstemious."