'If I must, I can,' agreed Elis, all too cheerfully and continently for one surely not hitherto accomplished at possessing his soul in patience. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nor was it only in Arabia that the immortal Nights did me such notable service: I found the wildlings of Somali land equally amenable to its discipline; no one was deaf to the charm and the two women cooks of my caravan, on its way to Harar, were in continently dubbed by my men “Shahrazad” and ❋ Unknown (2006)
We must live continently, compassionately, virtuously. ❋ Argent (2006)
Yes, Cleinias, temperance in the vulgar sense; not that which in the forced and exaggerated language of some philosophers is called prudence, but that which is the natural gift of children and animals, of whom some live continently and others incontinently, but when isolated, was as we said, hardly worth reckoning in the catalogue of goods. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But whether we marry, it is only that we may bring up children; or whether we decline marriage, we live continently. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
For himself was even then most pure in this point, so that it was wonderful; and that the more, since in the outset of his youth he had entered into that course, but had not stuck fast therein; rather had he felt remorse and revolting at it, living thenceforth until now most continently. ❋ Unknown (1999)
For one has truly said, He is not to be praised who has never seen Asia, but he who has lived modestly and continently in Asia. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)
As a consequence, the balance of forces, both continently and internationally, has decisively shifted in favour of the forces of independence, democracy and peace. ❋ Unknown (1982)
Instead, feeling sorrow and disgust at it, he had lived from that time down to the present most continently. ❋ 345-430 (1955)
This accounts for the fact that well nourished men who eat heavily are very likely to experience frequent nocturnal emissions, when living continently. ❋ Winfield Scott Hall (N/A)
If the sexual intercourse occurs as infrequently as once or twice in a month, the man, by living thus continently, will find it much more easy to maintain his continence during the twelve-month period after his wife becomes pregnant before he can properly have intercourse with her again, than would be the case if he had had sexual relations much more frequently. ❋ Winfield Scott Hall (N/A)
He exacted first a solemn oath from the archbishop and all his clergy that for the future no preferment should be paid for; then, imposing a penance on all who had been guilty, he re-instated in their benefices all who under took to live continently. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Of these they make mothers -- for these alone they will live continently. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Nor is Cyprian influenced by these considerations to speak of a virgin who had made a solemn vow, but of one who had determined to live continently, as the beginning of Letter XI., ❋ Johann Michael Reu (1906)
It were a lengthy task to mention byname each one of those devout Fathers who began to flourish in the time of Gerard and were contemporaries with Florentius; men who taught us to despise the vanities of the world, and to live humbly and continently, and left to them that followed after a bright example of holy conversation by their patience and obedience. ❋ 1379?-1471 (1905)
And after S. Bernard each of these three is divided into three, that is, to live soberly, if we live companionably, continently, and humbly. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
He had, first, sober living in treble manner, for he lived continently. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
