abstemiously
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There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride.
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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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In a viable writer's show like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever notice."
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At present I live very abstemiously, and scarcely ever touch wine.
From The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock by Ferdinand Brock Tupper
If one exercises thus freely and eats abstemiously he ought not to lay on fat.
From The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male by Winfield Scott Hall