Of true Puritan abstemiousness, his only indulgence was chewing tobacco.
"The Crisis, Volume 4"
Winston Churchill
The contrast between his evident indulgence and the previous abstemiousness of her late guest struck her unpleasantly.
"Sally Dows and Other Stories"
Bret Harte
But with Miller's eye on them, and the example of Diogenes and the Captain before them, the rest of the crew exercised an abstemiousness which would have been admirable, had it not been in a great measure compulsory.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes