This inviolable custom of ages Ma-nee, with a spartan courage, determined to break.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
What was, perhaps, more to the purpose, he had been demanding too much of his bodily strength during the last two months, and had been living in a spartan fashion on badly cooked and very irregular meals, until at length his nervous system began to feel the strain.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
It was spartan in some of its laconisms.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs