The nuns at the convent made a habit of being abstemious.    From LearnThat.org. 

But Joe (so abstemious, so shy) was in a million parlors -- big as Life, the new magazine that debuted the same year as he.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

He was an abstemious, intelligent, devout, generous, of a handsome countenance, and possessing a talent for poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference

The pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

abstemious with the use of adverbs.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : an abstemious life. ,an abstemious diet.    From Dictionary.com. 

Dowd has repeatedly mocked Obama's "abstemious" tastes and how these set him apart from the great, fat, American mains.    From Wordnik.com.  [John McQuaid: Dowd: More Big Macs for Barack] Reference

Dowd has repeatedly mocked Obama's "abstemious" tastes and how these set him apart from the great, fat, American mainstream.    From Wordnik.com.  [John McQuaid: Dowd: More Big Macs for Barack] Reference

Tranter and Monsieur Dupont were abstemious guests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crooked House] Reference

Americans, who are abstemious abroad as well as at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

Great determination; 8. and abstemious living and high thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference

As it had been a perfectly abstemious occasion, one imagines that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

"Yes, people ought not to drink so much," said the abstemious and ascetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference

Frist has the stern, abstemious aura of a country doctor in a dry county.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEW POWER PLAYERS] Reference

Madonnas too healthy to accord with our notions of their abstemious lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference

The same abstemious secretary who completely outlawed alcohol on warships in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

He led an abstemious life, maintaining himself by his painting for several years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

All through their lives they should be most careful and abstemious in their diet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palmistry for All] Reference

He was modest in a way, abstemious and never used his power for selfish indulgence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference

They are also very abstemious in their diet, and gluttony is the very rarest of vices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference

"It is my one indulgence; in other respects I challenge any man to be more abstemious.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

I'm going to see, but when I'm reasonably abstemious I'm not given to ingrowing nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Suffragette] Reference

One endued with intelligence should be abstemious in diet and should conquer one's senses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

One day a salad, the abstemious relish yielded by his garden herbs, was set on the table by Jeanneton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference

He should be abstemious in diet, devoted to the gods, grateful, mild, destitute of cruelty, and forgiving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

If a principle could ever be concrete, Raikes was the embodiment of the grasping and the uselessly abstemious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

Simple and abstemious in their habits, they lead healthy lives and often reach an extreme yet vigorous old age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Observant of vows and abstemious in diet, he should eat only once, the time thereof being the sixth part of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

He sipped beer discreetly out of a coffee cup inside a cafe that was a bit too close to a particularly abstemious mosque.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Istanbul Express] Reference

For this they work most energetically; living in the most abstemious manner, in order that they may not break into their hoard.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

Their inner clothing was linen, woollen garments being thought unclean; their diet was plain and even abstemious, in order that, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference