abstemious

I have now been thirty years in the public service, and have fulfilled my duties irreproachably, remained abstemious, and never been detected in any unbecoming behaviour.

And next, I was abstemious because my way led among books and students where no drinking was.

The islanders are somewhat abstemious at this repast; reserving the more powerful efforts of their appetite to a later period of the day.

But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious, not to say dainty.

I knew he was of abstemious habit or I should have thought he had been drinking.

You know me: I am busy from morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well."

That, carnivorous," he continued, glancing his eye at the open page of his tablets; "this, granivorous; habits, fierce, dangerous; habits, patient, abstemious; ears, inconspicuous; ears, elongated; horns, diverging, &c., horns, none!"

In food and drink he was abstemious as a monk, while exercise was a thing abhorrent.

An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses.

Faithful to her custom, Jacquotte herself always brought in every dish one after another, a plan which had its drawbacks, for it compelled gluttonous folk to over-eat themselves, and the more abstemious, having satisfied their hunger at an early stage, were obliged to leave the best part of the dinner untouched.

They chatted without much interruption from the business of the table; for Jane, despite her amplitude, had a small appetite, and was fearful of growing fat; whilst Trefusis was systematically abstemious. Sir Charles was unusually silent.

His daily living being very plain, he had a peculiar taste for sudden and isolated luxuries; he was an abstemious epicure.