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Example sentences for "teetotal"

Lexicographically close words:
teetered; teetering; teeth; teethe; teething; teetotaler; teetotalers; teetotalism; teetotaller; teetotallers
  1. Aw allus think a teetotal lecturer is like a bottle o' pop.

  2. If you say it is a teetotal boat, it is a teetotal boat; but you will not forget to give me whole herring for bait when you are going out of the bay?

  3. Now Weston was the name of the frail parson, who had been dead for several years, and to hear himself so addressed was very nettling to the teetotal clergyman.

  4. Mr Bradlaugh's comment on this was, that it was "a curious warning to strike a public-house with electricity to frighten people from hearing the address of a teetotal Infidel.

  5. Aw nivver have a druffen rant; Aw nivver praich teetotal cant; Aw nivver booast at awm a saint, I' matters o' religion.

  6. I then called upon Doctor Chapin, asked him for the teetotal pledge, and signed it.

  7. Two or three men followed in the same strain advocating a league for mutual improvement and social purposes, but without the teetotal pledge; they were against the saloon, but didn't see why they should not take a drink now and then.

  8. I have been to the teetotal meeting and have taken the pledge, and I intend, through the grace of God, to keep as long as I live.

  9. I have been to the Teetotal Meeting, and I have taken the pledge, and I intend, through the grace of God, to keep it as long as I live.

  10. For some of the teetotal organizations might be substituted Physical Welfare Societies.

  11. On the contrary, chemical analysis, so far as it has gone, supports the teetotal view of the matter.

  12. Our teetotal friends have not neglected the scientific questions involved in their subject; nor have they settled them.

  13. This being so, the attitude of American Protestants in attacking the only teetotal creed which is working among natives in a continent where total abstinence is unanimously declared to be essential to native welfare indicates loose thinking.

  14. It would rather seem that too early an indulgence in teetotal principles is apt to have an effect on the childish mind quite the reverse of humanising.

  15. But I must confess that I do chafe against children of a teetotal tendency one occasionally is introduced to.

  16. Nay, he would be as forward as his teetotal detractor, and quite as earnest, in persuading the wretched reckless swiller of beer and gin to renounce his bestial habit.

  17. Were it any other business but teetotal business, one might feel disposed to pass by as meaningless the hint conveyed in Colonel Jervis’s words.

  18. Even in his poverty, drunkenness, and misery, I discovered it was my teetotal patient whom I had, not so long ago, persuaded to break his pledge.

  19. Teetotal mathematics demonstrate that the less includes the greater; that the guilty include the innocent, the blind the seeing, the deaf the hearing, the dumb the speaking, the drunken the sober.

  20. I will not run amuck and vilify and defame them, as teetotal tracts and platforms would most assuredly do, if the question were one of drinking instead of driving: I merely ask what is to be done with them!

  21. It was a Teetotal procession, as I learnt from its banners, and was long enough to consume twenty minutes in passing.

  22. Manifestly, in strict accordance with teetotal doctrines, THEY must come in too, and take the total abstinence from horseflesh pledge.

  23. Strangely enough, this life-long advocate of temperance reform lost his seat in the General Election of 1874 through an outburst of teetotal fanaticism on the part of the advocates of the Permissive Bill.

  24. If I tell you boys a secret can you keep it--teetotal abstinence?

  25. Not as I knows of," grinned old Tom; "but teetotal abstinence is the word when it comes to the brig, my lads.

  26. I never did sneer at or scorn the question of Temperance, yet I never thought that I should stand up as a teetotal advocate; but I am proud that I have been put into the position in which I am now placed.

  27. There were two youths brought into the prison, who were teetotalers, and the other turnkeys jeered the teetotal turnkey upon it.

  28. This reminds me, by-the-bye, of a teetotal turnkey at Coldbath Fields.

  29. The works which George Cruikshank illustrated, and the enterprises on which he entered during the thirty-years of his teetotal career, would be enough to fill the life of an ordinary worker.

  30. He had heard the wife, who had deserted her husband in favor of the teetotal platform, cry out for another chance, when her husband had died away from her.

  31. But I've made up my mind on the teetotal business, and don't ye forget it.

  32. A MOST remarkable man, sir,” said the Secretary of the Teetotal Union to the President.

  33. The subject of this conversation—which took place in the Committee Room of the Teetotal Union, in Aldersgate Street, City—stood in an outer chamber, gravely contemplative.

  34. Why, sir, he’s one of the most ardent spirits engaged in the teetotal cause.


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