English vocabulary examples in context: abstinence
Vocabulary in context: abstinence -- Example 1.
And all the Setch prayed in one church, and were willing to defend it to their last drop of blood, although they would not hearken to aught about fasting or abstinence.
Vocabulary in context: abstinence -- Example 2.
Moved with pity, the young Cossack flung him a loaf, which he seized like a mad dog, gnawing and biting it; but nevertheless he shortly expired in horrible suffering, there in the street, from the effect of long abstinence.
