1 But, though luxurious, the Norman nobles were not generally speaking an intemperate race.
2 They had been married for twenty-two years and had lived happily until about two years ago when his wife began to be rather intemperate in her habits.
3 Stubb was a high liver; he was somewhat intemperately fond of the whale as a flavorish thing to his palate.
4 It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.
5 To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches; of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy.
6 So saying, he took off his cup with much gravity, at the same time shaking his head at the intemperance of the Scottish harper.
7 She accepted his frequent intemperance as part of the climate, healed him dutifully whenever he was sick and always tried to make him eat a breakfast.
8 Spots appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously.