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The Cardinal lived abstemiously in a top-floor apartment, worked on his memoirs and a history of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary.

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There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride.

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In a viable writer's show like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever notice."

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Disregarding all things, and eating very abstemiously, the Yogin should look with an equal eye upon objects acquired or lost.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

They subsist abstemiously upon wild herbs and fruits and roots and leaves of diverse kinds.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan