Significados de abstemious man em inglês

In his early days Mr. Furnival had been essentially an abstemious man.

Mr. Manderson was, considering his position in life, a remarkably abstemious man.

And this that abstemious man unfolded to Tonker over a cup of tea.

My father was an abstemious man, and although invited to stop and liquor, declined doing so.

It's a heady wine for an abstemious man.

Insert a liberal dose of mixed spirits in a normally abstemious man, and he becomes a force.

He was a calm, even-tempered, abstemious man.

He was an abstemious man, with a good digestion and a placid, reasonable view of life even when hungry.

The Duke of Wellington's dictum about the healthiness of India to an abstemious man does not require to be quoted.

Fortunately, he was an alcoholic and threw off a dose of venom that would probably have destroyed an abstemious man.

The cardinal himself was an exceedingly abstemious man, but magnificent in everything which concerned the pomp and ceremonial of his position.

He was usually a most abstemious man, but he took this off at a gulp without adding any water to it.

Always an abstemious man, he exercised his usual moderation in eating and drinking; and he was the first to go to bed.

Mr. Champneys was an abstemious man, but the girl was frankly greedy with the naïve greed of one who had been heretofore stinted.

Yes, yes, he always was a most abstemious man; but I know what he never can resist, and that is cold raspberry tart and cream.

Otherwise the order might have lain open to too many timorous, merely abstemious men and women.