...The Arabs or inhabitants of the Sahara, cansupport the most extraordinary abstinence... 
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...As a general thing, fasting and abstinence are bad teachers of moderation...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...A weaklystomach cannot be benefited by a prolonged abstinence...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...Neither will be eaten at first; but this does notmuch signify, as a day or two of abstinence rather does good than injury...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...The prolonged abstinence kills her...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Total abstinence from food could be understood, if it were accompaniedby inertia: immobility is not life...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...The Arabs for the most part use the mares in theirordinary excursions, as they are less vicious than the males,and are more capable of sustaining abstinence and fatigue...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...That celebrateddeity was first made flesh about the year 1640 in the person of aBrahman of Poona, by name Mooraba Gosseyn, who sought to work outhis salvation by abstinence, mortification, and prayer...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
..." Henceit would seem that in the mind of these people abstinence from saltis somehow associated with the idea of chastity...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...While thus secluded,she was called asta, that is 'interred alive' inCarrier, and she had to submit to a rigorous fast and abstinence...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...Andwhen he went and said: Knights of poor faith and of wicked belief, these threethings failed, charity, abstinence, and truth; therefore ye may not attain thathigh adventure of the Sangreal...
Thomas Malory 「Le Morte D’Arthur, Volume II (of II)」
...The Babyloniansevidently did not keep these days as days of rest, or of abstinence frombusiness, as the Jews keep their sabbath, or Christian countries theirSunday...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
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