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Example sentences for "bacchanalian"

Lexicographically close words:
babylonischen; babys; bacca; baccalaureate; baccarat; bacchanalians; bacco; baccy; bacheler; bachelor
  1. The influence of Titian, however, was too strong for him to remain long within the narrowest limits, as may be seen in the Bacchanalian Dance, No.

  2. Bacchanalian Festival as well as in The Shepherds in Arcadia, in the Louvre, we get a surprisingly strong reminiscence of Titian, more especially in the brown tones of the flesh and the deep blue of the sky.

  3. There was a Bacchanalian dance called "Tyrbasia," probably resembling the Argive Tyrbe, and deriving its name from its intricate mazes.

  4. Like the Elean girls in the temples of Here, so at Sparta the eleven Bacchanalian virgins exhibited their skill in the race at a contest in honour of their god.

  5. The decree of the Senate against Bacchanalian societies: 186 B.

  6. And, likewise, it fell to the Senate to deal with all sudden crises which constituted a menace to the welfare of the state, like the spread of the Bacchanalian associations which was ended by the Senatus Consultum of 186 B.

  7. All night the Bacchanalian festival was continued, the outrageous orgie ceasing only with the utter exhaustion of the degraded devotees of pleasure.

  8. Whether these pious exercises and devout exclamations might not be the rapid circulation of the flagon, and many a jovial bacchanalian song, there may be some reason to doubt.

  9. He was not only interested in the Bacchanalian dances, but in Egyptian festivals generally.

  10. But the Bacchanalian festivals of Hathor had interested her and aroused her curiosity, from the very first time that she had seen the figures of the dancing-girls, so realistically carved on the walls of the temple of Dendereh.

  11. To be sure the state had introduced him merely as the god of wine, but the mystery element in Dionysos took firm hold on private worship, and the Bacchanalian clubs or societies began to spread over Italy.

  12. The roaring Bacchanalian who stands next him, waving his glass in the air, has pulled off his wig, and in the zeal of his friendship crowns the divine's head.

  13. Fill the merry bowl, my boys, join in bacchanalian roar.

  14. The hundreds of Essex, it appears from the print, which represents a bacchanalian sporting revel, were doubtless attractive to fox-hunters; but the hospitalities exercised therein were rather excessive.

  15. Yes, sir," said the waiter, going to fetch them, although himself frightened at what might be the result of this bacchanalian struggle.

  16. We sit at the Banquet of Famine, and no coarser sustenance than inspiring wine finds admittance at the Bacchanalian board.

  17. Neither harps nor singing-boys, neither woman's ringing laughter nor man's bacchanalian glee, now woke the echoes in the lonely halls.

  18. When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with great spirit.

  19. Finding that some of the listeners only wished for gipsy music, the leader played the most frantically bacchanalian in his repertory.

  20. All this is accompanied by Bacchanalian lines and they are fortunate if in their exalted triumph they do not add the word "colossal.

  21. The Carnival festivities at Rome were just ending with their wild bacchanalian revelries.

  22. It is not surprising, therefore, that Bacchanalian illustrations have been found among the decorations in the early Christian Churches.

  23. In the Parisian version the overture does not come to an end, but at the second appearance of the bacchanalian music the curtain rises and the ballet begins.

  24. He therefore rewrote this scene, cutting out the stirring finale of the overture and raising the curtain on the second appearance of the bacchanalian music, which was now extended and elaborated so that a pantomimic ballet might be danced.

  25. In the third act, when Tannhaeuser in his despair calls upon Venus, we are informed of her appearance before his fancy by the return of the bacchanalian music.

  26. Christianity, more than all other religions combined, has contributed to keep alive the Bacchanalian feasts and revelries.

  27. The Roman government suppressed the later Bacchanalian and Eleusinian feasts, together with the Christian Agapae, because of their debaucheries, obscenities, and supposed infant sacrifices.

  28. I have little doubt that this Bacchanalian recollection originated the tradition of the equality of conditions in the golden age, contrary to the facts of Scripture and history.

  29. Bacchanalian tradition on the one side to transform into the fiction of the state of savage and absolute equality, or the touch of poetry to convert into the golden reminiscence on the other.

  30. Noah, they were brought into the plains, and instructed in the arts of husbandry by the patriarch; and the notion of the primitive equality[19] of condition I believe to have originated in the Bacchanalian traditions of the same patriarch.

  31. They held Bacchanalian revels in and out of college without regard to Dons and statutes.

  32. Those must have been bacchanalian days, and supplies never failed.


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