He was more temperate, and rarely drank more than forty cups between breakfast and bedtime.
In turn, ale or beer was classified into "strong" and "small", the latter less intoxicating, regarded as a drink of temperate people, and suitable for consumption by children.
MOSCOW — The first week of January is always a week out of time and space in Russia: all business shuts down, many people flee to more temperate climes, and those who remain, drink, eat and then drink some more.
The first time I heard it said in the United States that a hundred thousand men publicly engaged not to make use of strong liquors, the thing appeared to me more amusing than serious, and at first I did not see well why such temperate citizens were not content to drink water within their families.
Firstdetected when some whiskey distillers placed ads in papers praising temperate life and urging consumers not to drink whiskey.
He is also a man of temperate habits; though not teetotal, his favourite drink is said to be fresh orange juice.
Though I no longer drink and generally now have temperate judgment, instead of dodging the kiss, I moved toward it.
For one thing, they had all liked to drink a bit then, and now they were very temperate.
This could be due to the prevalent climatic conditions which necessitate people to drink water in quantities higher than what people drink in temperate regions.
Suetonius, the gossipy historian, revealed that Augustus, the staunchly temperate first Roman emperor, could not resist Valpolicella wines, though — we are assured — he rarely drank before dinner.
She had never let herself drink much at all, not even "more than one little cup of wine, diluted according to her own temperate palate, which, out of courtesy, she would taste".
