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New designs often emphasize the penny-pinching Spartanism that pioneering architects borrowed from industrial buildings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he remade the Trask household, and Adam gave him no opposition.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Truly and really the Prussian Soldiers, with their intelligent silence, with the touches of effective Spartanism I saw or fancied in them, were the class of people that pleased me best.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

Hereby, to his Athenian-French elegancies, and airy promptitudes and brilliancies, there shall lie as basis an adamantine Spartanism and Stoicism; very rare, but very indispensable, for such a superstructure.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas

It was just that old Puritanism, Spartanism of her childhood, which was continually reaching up its bony hand from the grave where she had interred it.

From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield