Middlemarch vocabulary

Then he had the vineleaves in his hair and a drunken song on his lips. Now only an exceptionally abstemious Judge could have competed with him in sobriety.

P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, pp.111-2 (1971)

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For a wine lover, he drank abstemiously, three or four glasses at dinner, never more. And wine glasses in Jefferson's day were small, holding perhaps a third of the amount of a modern balloon wine glass.

Thomas J. Craughwell. Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée, p.173 (2012)

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the great negro was wonderfully abstemious, not to say dainty. It seemed hardly possible that by such comparatively small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality diffused through so broad, baronial, and superb a person.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick

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I am busy from morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman