Swine are very rarely kept, and then almost wholly for the European inhabitants, the Copts generally abstaining from eating their meat.
They are mainly monogamous, and by rigidly abstaining from foreign marriages have preserved racial purity.
Abstaining from putting himself forward, he lived quietly on his estates, which had been restored to him by a vote of the Assembly.
A resolution was finally adopted by 128 votes to 1, thirty Socialist members abstaining from voting.
It was notable that Martha was pregnant and abstaining.