An advocate of teetotalism, McGee had problems with drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Had Second Thoughts] Reference
But Christianity is more than teetotalism and physical fitness. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Mr. Bush, why don't you go to church?] Reference
Thurmond is a kind of, you know -- it's prune juice, teetotalism. From Wordnik.com. [Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990] Reference
Moderate drinking has been shown in many studies to be better for us than teetotalism. From Wordnik.com. [A is for Alcohol] Reference
Temperance is a moderate use of strong drink; teetotalism is absolute abstention therefrom. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
Our teetotaler owner - captain was laughed at, and sneered at, by all of us because of his teetotalism. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 16] Reference
Come what would, he should not stand up and triumph in his teetotalism on the platform -- that they were quite resolved on. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
But teetotalism had not been invented in the days of. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
"Ah, Welton, you'll never convince me that teetotalism is right," said. From Wordnik.com. [The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
It is of no avail to preach temperance and teetotalism to these people. From Wordnik.com. [The People of the Abyss] Reference
There is a very strong case for vegetarianism as compared with teetotalism. From Wordnik.com. [All Things Considered] Reference
"With all his cleanliness, vegetarianism and teetotalism," one writer remarks. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference
Nugent observed, teetotalism was to him what dissipation was to other young men. From Wordnik.com. [Nuttie's Father] Reference
He was not so much noted for his leanings towards teetotalism as towards lacrosse. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Rainbow] Reference
By way of avoiding Lord Fleckwood he might have started Mrs. Seaton on teetotalism. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
"Bad habit of yours, Albert, teetotalism ... makes the brain cloudy ... insidious.". From Wordnik.com. [Greener Than You Think] Reference
Let's break our teetotalism for once and drink a glass to Cap'n and Mrs. Solomon Berry. From Wordnik.com. [The Depot Master] Reference
Had he always talked of nothing but 'the colours,' chants, E.C. U., classes, and teetotalism?. From Wordnik.com. [Nuttie's Father] Reference
It involves the title of this paper, and a little fair trying of teetotalism by its own tests. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
Our teetotaler owner-captain was laughed at, and sneered at, by all of us because of his teetotalism. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
Tike my word, there ain't no good in teetotalism; it finds yer aht in the end, an 'it's found you aht.'. From Wordnik.com. [Liza of Lambeth] Reference
It went, as it usually goes, though the logical connection is not obvious, with teetotalism and similar fads. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the United States] Reference
But if he did, it was in silence and darkness; with an ever-present feeling that teetotalism was his only true course. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
The middle classes of modern England are quite fanatically fond of washing; and are often enthusiastic for teetotalism. From Wordnik.com. [A Miscellany of Men] Reference
There had been before his time large demonstrations in favour of teetotalism, and in some parts of the country the Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [The Authoritative Life of General William Booth] Reference
Whether malt, the franchise, or teetotalism be his rallying point, of course he is full of it when among his constituents. From Wordnik.com. [The Belton Estate] Reference
Some have acquired a steady habit of saving, and with nearly all, from the mere force of example, teetotalism is the rule. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852] Reference
I met with some of the bitterest and most persistent enemies of teetotalism in the circuit in which I was then travelling. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story] Reference
It was plain that, like so many of the extremely religious in the days before teetotalism, Attwater had a dash of the epicure. From Wordnik.com. [The Ebb-Tide] Reference
Compromising for the nonce with his teetotalism as well as his vegetarianism -- not to pain the hosts -- Piers drank bottled ale. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Life] Reference
This was uttered with such blinding rapidity of syllabification as to be a better test of teetotalism than the Scotch one of saying. From Wordnik.com. [Alarms and Discursions] Reference
Now if there was one topic on which this awe-inspiring woman was more awe-inspiring than another it was on the topic of teetotalism. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
What could be better, for instance, than this little miniature picture of the rise and fall of teetotalism in one well-loved person?. From Wordnik.com. [Mince Pie] Reference
In the Nineties he had taken to the Jaegers that usually stand for vegetarianism, teetotalism, hygiene -- all the drab things of life. From Wordnik.com. [Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties] Reference
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