He was also very abstemiousin his food, and never indulged in excesses of the table.
The successes of Kassa, the courage he manifested on all occasions, the abstemious life he led, and the favour he showed to all who served his cause, soon collected around him a band of hardy and reckless followers.
In the school of adversity, the luxurious caliphs resumed the grave and abstemiousvirtues of the primitive times.
The more fortunate Arabs, who survived the war and persevered in the faith, were restrained by their abstemious leader from the abuse of prosperity.
Disdaining the penance and merit of a hermit, he observed, without effort or vanity, the abstemiousdiet of an Arab and a soldier.
The people who enjoy the profit-incomes of the world, are, with few exceptions, people who have not been either abstemious or thrifty.
He is particularly abstemious with regard to diet, and for nearly twelve years has not taken any liquor, either with or after his meals, but water alone.
Living the abstemious life of the orthodox Mormon, to whom wine, tobacco and even tea and coffee are prohibited, he had seemed inexhaustibly robust and untiring.
And it was astonishing how few the needy were--because of the abstemious lives, the industry, and the thrift of the workers.
Given occasion sir, Jack can be asabstemious as Bacchus.
Brillat-Savarin, grave judge as he was, and abstemious eater, yet has written the book of books on the art of eating.
And next, I was abstemious because my way led among books and students where no drinking was.
On the contrary, when I sailed from Australia on a tramp steamer commanded by an abstemious captain, I took no drink along, and had no drink for the forty-three days' passage.
He was often called Torquemada, from his harsh and abstemious habits.
Convalescents, sober persons who resisted the sweet seductions of Falernian and Chios wines, drank a kind of barley-water ptisana, a sorry liquid, of which the following is the recipe for the use of the abstemious of the present day.
He was an abstemious man, with a good digestion and a placid, reasonable view of life even when hungry.
It was duly brought, and, though those ranchers are for the most part abstemious men, other bottles made their appearance in turn, and Barbison braced himself for an effort to maintain his credit as one of The Boys.
A poor man who leads an abstemious life doesn't develop gout, and if his children lead the same abstemious lives they do not develop gout.
Would that I could ask you to share my frugal meal; but it is emphatically only enough for one--and that an abstemious old canon.
He lurched when the horse started, and though most men are abstemious in that country, Alice Deringham decided that he was under the influence of alcohol.
He was a great bather, and scrupulously clean in all his habits, abstemious in his food, and careless in what it consisted, rarely or never touching wine, and noting sobriety as the highest of qualities when describing any new people.
The once hardy, abstemious mode of living degenerated into grossness and sensuality.
His abstemious habits had left his health unshaken.
And all this is performed on anabstemious vegetable diet.
Such a stomach requires a fast day, followed by the plainest and most abstemious diet, with a gradually increasing proportion of fruit as the stomach recovers "tone.
Finally, so deeply was Franklin impressed from his own experience and observation in this direction that he proposed to cure all diseases by means of the air-bath, combined with plain and abstemious living.
He kissed his blushing ministrant gratefully, and they sat down in joy to their abstemious meal; when suddenly his face was overclouded,--there shot through him the remembrance of Dr.
The sole luxury the abstemious aspirer allowed to himself was that which is found in intellectual restlessness.
All were anxious and nervous except Harley, who dipped his dry toast into his coffee, according to his ordinary abstemious Italian habit, with serene composure.
They were led into their abstemious course by mere impulse in very many cases, and though a library was formed and meetings held, nobody, hardly, would read, and the meetings grew thin.
After a few years, he ventured to change his abstemious diet for one more rich and stimulating.
He was universally regarded as one of the most abstemious men of his age.
I think I have retained the vigor of my mind more, in consequence of an abstemious diet.
In 1846 the number of their church members was about seventy, besides thirty who adhered to their abstemious habits, but were not in full communion.
His favorite articles of food were tea, bread and butter, and baked apples; and he was even abstemious in the use of these.
I see that I shall after all have to live quietly in England with my pipe and my abstemious bottle of beer.
That the Chinese are a civilized people, very abstemious in their habits, especially as regards the use of opium, spirits, and stimulants of all kinds.
Now, I say again, if the Chinese are such abstemious and frugal people, and that they are so is unquestionable, does not the same rule apply to opium as to spirits?
The opium pipe, as a rule, is indulged in more moderately than wine or cigars are with us, the Chinese being so extremely abstemious in their habits.
Not only are the Chinese abstemious in their use of opium, but also as regards alcoholic liquors.
Well, then, is it likely that a people so abstemious in respect of spirit drinking would indulge to excess in opium, especially if the drug has the intoxicating and destructive qualities ascribed to it by the missionaries?
Does not that form the strongest possible evidence that the Chinese are an extremely steady and abstemious race?
Bread and dhall he preferred to the most choice delicacies, as by this abstemious mode of living, he was enabled to feed and comfort the afflicted with the residue of his income.
The great objection is, that in Mussulmaun families nurses are required to be abstemious in their diet, by no means an object of choice amongst so luxurious a people.
