Sparing in consumption of especially food and drink.
Marked by temperance in indulgence.
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1 Please use this number for any future references to this light - bulb issue.
2 The paper sheds new light on a big issue for technology companies.
3 With the clear morning light and dry roads, they made good time.
4 The light at this time of year has a particularly ethereal quality.
5 He made light of the problem but said he'd talk to Jason.
1 On the sea-stretches I was fairly abstemious ; but ashore I drank more.
2 He is temperate and sober, being equally abstemious in meat and drink.
3 Meat, I think, though he is an abstemious eater and no drinker.
4 The once hardy, abstemious mode of living degenerated into grossness and sensuality.
5 In his early days Mr. Furnival had been essentially an abstemious man.
6 But the retiring, abstemious habits of Michelangelo did not appeal to Leo.
7 A little further on, the abstemious Hun had obviously made a halt.
8 Mr. Manderson was, considering his position in life, a remarkably abstemious man.
9 The Spaniards, though considered an abstemious people, appeared to them excessively voracious.
10 He rides well, drives well, rises early, and is of abstemious habits.
11 He had never in his life been so abstemious , nor so single-minded.
12 JG: We're all much more abstemious with drink than we used to be.
13 In regard to the pleasures of the table he was temperate, almost abstemious .
14 The reasons range from gentrification to abstemious youth to summer festivals.
15 In diet, Percival was the most abstemious person I ever knew.
16 Most of the bulimics I have known or read about aren't so abstemious .
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