intemperance

How To Use intemperance In A Sentence

• When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument. Revolution, and Other Essays
• Later reactions against the Canon were a recognition of the intemperance of behaviorism.
• Societies are formed to resist evils that are exclusively of a moral nature, as to diminish the vice of intemperance.
• When A. came to take in her liquor, she found her tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her 'browst' had disappeared. Waverley — Volume 1
• Intemperance in food will cause the rapid descent into degredation of one who has previously lived decently.
• He is 18 and has time on his side, but as we have seen in the intemperance of his play, patience is not one of his virtues.
• This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires. The Last of the Barons — Complete
• When we do not use our time distinctly then intemperance, intolerance and imprudence turn out to be our masters.
• The intemperance of that high dignitary and his priests filled me with an unspeakable horror and disgust.
• Now, as to this disease of intemperance, which is a social and moral as well as Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink