What is "bacchanalian"

Usage examples of "bacchanalian".

At first, satisfied with enjoying the sight of the barren contest of my two bacchanalians, I was amused by their efforts and by the contrast of colours, for one was dark and the other fair, but soon, excited myself, and consumed by all the fire of voluptuousness, I threw myself upon them, and I made them, one after the other, almost faint away from the excess of love and enjoyment.

I had been invited that evening to a revel of Bacchanalian proportions at the house of a certain lady on Thomas Street.

Christianity has not been able to abolish the noisy bacchanalian festivals of the pagan times, but it has changed the names.

Or perhaps they foresaw the bacchanalian rite of spring break at Myrtle Beach, and tried reaching across the centuries to discourage a very different type of hajj.

He had been staying at a country vicarage, the inmates of which had been certainly neither brutal nor bacchanalian, but their supervision of the domestic establishment had been of that lax order which invites disaster.

Beneath this rather bacchanalian headgear her old, mild straw-coloured face had all the effect of an anachronism.

Carnivals with wild kicks, rough parties with promiscuous sex, alcoholic orgies and bacchanalian dances, violence of all kinds, vertiginous adventures and explosions mark the life styles struck with the ferocity of this stage of the birth experience.

In the midst of this Bacchanalian orgy the beautiful Marco remained mute, drinking nothing and leaning quietly on her bare arm.

Sculptures of winged bulls and springing lions topped the wild bacchanalian murals painted on the walls between the pillars.

The first was engaged, it may be remembered, in the process of brushing up Bacchanalian Nymphs in the foreground of a Classical landscape.

Zack, tapping his forehead with an air of bland Bacchanalian superiority.

Here I scarcely miss, So masterly the grouping, so distinct The bacchanalian spirit, your rich brush, So vigorous in color.

Without pausing to except or qualify, or to be thoroughly informed and just, they included the ancient stern generations and their own degraded contemporaries, the vile rites of the Corinthian Aphrodite and the solemn service of Demeter, the furious revels of the Bacchanalians and the harmonious mental worship of Apollo, all in one indiscriminate charge of insane beastliness and idolatry.

I was so excited at this Bacchanalian spectacle that I burst out into cries of delight.

Vanslyperken, surrounded now by furies rather than Bacchanalians kissed Mrs.