Again, I cannot praise her excessive abstemiousness in eating and drinking.

Don't you think you ladies would find it of advantage to copy them in this laudable abstemiousness?

A little abstemiousness would not hurt these pampered Christians, so when they set out on their marches they need not be provided with rations or water.

How often it appears that, in spite of the normal equanimity observable in circumstantial evidence, hereditary disciplinarisms are totally devoid of potential abstemiousness.

In his Life and Times he describes Brown as a prosperous merchant, who in his home lived with the utmost abstemiousness, in order that he might save money for the great scheme he was already revolving.