Sentence Examples with the word Abstained


Some have abstained from all underground-grown roots and tubers, and have claimed special benefits from using only those fruits and vegetables that are grown in the sunlight.


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For the same reason he abstained from drastic religious reforms in his capacity as high-priest of Lydia.


He therefore abstained from determining for each case the specific heats of the solutions he employed, and contented himself with the above approximation.


But if the Pharisees abstained from good works on the Sabbath, the Essenes abstained even from natural necessities (Jos.

Some abstained from all living creatures; others ate fish; others fish and fowl.

For a few months after the dissolution of the Neapolitan parliament the government abstained from persecution, but with the crushing of the Sicilian revolution its hands The were free; and when the commission on the affair of Neapolitan prisons, t h e 15th of May had completed its labours the state trials and arrests began.