austerity

• It is rather a vigorous discrimination between pleasure and joy, an austerity which is not deceived by selfish, obvious, apparent pleasure, but sees what sort of pleasure is innocent, natural, social, and what sort of pleasure is corroding, barren, and unreal In the Christianity of the Gospel there is very little trace of asceticism. —  Joyous Gard
• For the austerity is meant for them who most need it. —  Hetty Wesley
• The consequence of this austerity is an extended system of intrigue, for the purpose of evading all this circumspection--by which means they are full of cunning and deceit TURKEY. —  Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II
• The chiefs of the North-West are invariably so intolerably proper that occasional revolt from their austerity is all but forced on Nynee Tal, the sanatorium of that province. —  Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
• Ruden's Virgil seems notable instead for a kind of austerity, a Roman plainness. —  Harper's Magazine

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