| 1. | And abstinence engenders maladies. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | He doth with holy abstinence subdu. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | To the next abstinence the next more eas. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Chaucer is always careful to allege his abstinence from th. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 5. | blinded And livest thus as a hermite Although thine abstinence is lite.. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | Saint Augustine will that abstinence be done for virtue, and with patience. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 7. | Pumblechook, sighing and nodding his head several times, as if he might have expected that, and as if abstinence from watercresses were consistent with my downfall. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | But I may as well say--en passant, as the French remark--that I myself--that is to say, Jack Bunger, late of the reverend clergy--am a strict total abstinence man I never drink--. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 9. | "In a word," said Mercedes, "it was a way of assuring me that his abstinence was intended." And she left the room. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |