Debt he abhorred, and under no circumstances would he incur it.

He was abstemious in every respect.

I have heard him say that he did not know the taste of liquor.

At the table he preferred plain food, and a very little satisfied him.
"Under no circumstances would he, as an attorney, take a case he knew to be wrong.

Every possible means was used to get at the truth before he would undertake a case.