9 collocations for abstain

Those Athenian women, in their solemn feasts called Thesmopheries, were to abstain nine days from the company of men, during which time, saith Aelian, they laid a certain herb, named hanea, in their beds, which assuaged those ardent flames of love, and freed them from the torments of that violent passion.

" Therewith he gan afresh to waile and weepe, That I for pittie of his heavie plight 170 Could not abstain mine eyes with teares to steepe;

As if just abstaining frae that ane sin could mak' her virtuous!

With the exception of some private capital amassed by abstaining from butter (a method of creating a fortune of whose wisdom, I must say, I had the same doubts then that I have now), this was the first money I had ever earned.

"Meseems that if you but abstain from playing altogether," quoth Sir Michael impatiently, "the result would still be the same....

I have done all I could to induce him to abstain, and he has abstained several months at a time and then suddenly like a flash of lightning the temptation returns and all his resolutions are scattered like chaff before the wind.

'But your lordship has a great stake in't; and to abstain one nightwhy, sure, my lord, it's a small thing to do for a fine woman and a fortune.' 'Hang me!

RECHABITES, a tribe of Arab origin and Bedouin habits who attached themselves to the Israelites in the wilderness and embraced the Jewish faith, but retained their nomadic ways; they abstained from all strong drink, according to a vow they had made to their chief, which they could not be tempted to break, an example which Jeremiah in vain pleaded with the Jews to follow in connection with their vow to the Lord (See Jer. xxxv.).

From animal food he abstained about four years, and from strong liquors much longer; but the gout continued unconquered, perhaps unabated.

9 collocations for  abstain