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  • Sobriety is usually opposed to excess in meats and drinks, and here particularly it is opposed to drunkenness; but it also extends to all other temporal things.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • I had this dream place, a little sea costal town called Sobriety Straight where freaks lived together.

    Interview with Artist and Comic Book Author Dame Darcy 2010

  • As against the former, it represents Abstinence, or moderation in solid food, and Sobriety, which is moderation in drink.

    Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888

  • Sobriety, that is, spiritual self-restraint, lest one be overcome by the allurements of the world and of sense, and patient hopeful waiting for Christ's revelation, are the true ways of "girding up the loins of the mind." to the end -- rather, "perfectly," so that there may be nothing deficient in your hope, no casting away of your confidence.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Jodie Sweetin'S Memoir: Meth, Ecstasy, Plates of Coke after 'Sobriety'

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  • Jodie Sweetin'S Memoir: Meth, Ecstasy, Plates of Coke after 'Sobriety'

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  • Jodie Sweetin's Memoir: Meth, Ecstasy, Plates Of Coke After 'Sobriety'

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  • Jodie Sweetin's Memoir: Meth, Ecstasy, Plates Of Coke After 'Sobriety'

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  • Jodie Sweetin'S Memoir: Meth, Ecstasy, Plates of Coke after 'Sobriety'

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  • Jodie Sweetin'S Memoir: Meth, Ecstasy, Plates of Coke after 'Sobriety'

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