After that they partook together of a sacred feast, and then ensued ecstatic raptures, hysterical ravings, and orgies of a licentious character in those shrines dedicated to the goddess of love.
This condition it was that provoked the orgies at Corinth among St. Paul’s converts, and the scenes in the assemblies of the Carpocratites.
In the West Indies, the Vaudoux orgies are more savage than in this country.
During a quarter of a century last past, some hundreds of these orgies have been broken up by the New Orleans police, and probably as many more have come off as per programme.
The gods of the surrounding nations were gods of pleasure and of pain; and in their worship the stern practices of fanatic asceticism alternated with the wildest orgies of sensual enjoyment.
It seemed as though the genius of chivalry which the Romantic school had invoked had returned with its grim attendant train to renew the orgies of mediaeval persecution in the full light of the nineteenth century.
Muenster now became the theatre of the wildest orgies ever perpetrated under the name of religion.
The mysticism of the old heathen world, the mysticism of the Gnostic sects, the mysticism of mediaeval heretics, almost invariably resolved itself into orgies of licentiousness.
He then made an instruction on the new revelation of the Divine will, which he pretended had been made to him, and the assembly became a scene of frantic orgies too horrible to be described.
To reinforce this fact, that the most sacred laws are purposefully broken at some periods of licence, I cite the Nanga orgies in old Fiji.
The religious sculptures of the Egyptians were grossly indecent; their religious festivals were kept in an indecent way; phallic orgies were a part of them, and phallic orgies of a gross kind.
Bestiality equalled only by the orgies of the Indic savages among the hill-tribes is the form of this 'religion.
Then commenced one of the reckless orgies with which the brig's crew were familiar.
He thought of Tony Riggleton spending the money these people were making for him in wild orgies among loose men and women, and he became angry and bitter.
He had filled Wendover Park with a motley crowd of men and women, and the orgies there were the talk of the neighbourhood.
And here, meet scene for orgies such as it beheld, Rome’s parricides were wont to hold their murderous assemblies.
Paullus Arvina, the scenes I have beheld, the orgies I have shared, the atmosphere of voluptuous sin I have breathed, almost from my cradle, had changed the cold heart of the virgin huntress into the fiery pulses of the wanton Venus!
Have they not fearful orgies in which they feast upon human flesh?
So to five women we thus had six men, and eventually a very handsome young priest, debauched by the others, joined our party, and we carried on the wildest and most extravagant orgies of every excess the most raging lust could devise.
These delicious orgies with these two lovely women were indulged in on every third day.
Monsieur made some difficulty about his being a servant, and the fear of discovery of our orgiesthrough his indiscretion; but hearing that he was much superior to a servant he consented to his introduction.
Away we went, and a most glorious afternoon of orgies we spent.
However, we had but this and the next night at our disposal, and the knowledge that we must soon cease our delicious orgies nerved us all to increased efforts.
So we had the prospect of the most consummate orgies in 'near view, and most gloriously in the end we realised our wildest expectations.
It will thus be seen that the Count's timid exclusiveness shut out from these family orgies my dear and esteemed friend and master MacCallum More.
This put an end to our Sunday orgies in our friend MacCallum's chambers, much to our mutual regret.
It ended in his complete initiation into our orgies with the footman.
This greenish-complexioned Sardanapalus is said to celebrate incredibly monstrous orgies with his drowned Odalisques.
In the heart of Africa, cannibal tribes make legyce of a cereal, and indulge in wild orgies over their barbaric cup.
Within the dismal college dormitories were herded a few hundred youths, entirely free from all moral and social restraints, abandoned to all orgies into which many characters in the formative state are most likely to drift.
It is related of her that after the death of her father she kept alive the knowledge of the great orgies and all the secret lore of thaumaturgy.
The numbers of his misdeeds are like the grains of sand on the seashore, his orgies have shamed our generation, his debauches are a disgrace upon the fame of Rome.
They occur in all languages, and hint how readily the worship of fire glided into that of the reproductive principle, into extravagances of chastity and lewdness, into the shocking orgies of the so-called phallic worship.
The Father learned that during these orgies not unfrequently whole villages were consumed, and the total extirpation of some families had resulted.
Bitterly hated by the rabbinical Jews, and accused of indulging in vile orgies in their assemblies, many of those Soharists were thrown into prison at the instigation of Bishop Dembowski of Kaminetz.
Did not popular rumor charge them with nocturnal orgies and Thyestæan feasts?
Even when the infamies of a Petronius had been superseded by the murderous orgies of Tigellinus, Nero was still everywhere welcomed with shouts as a god on earth and saluted on all coins as Apollo, as Hercules, as "the savior of the world.
Unconsciously Eckhardt's tread passed over the site of the ill-famed temple of Isis which had at one time witnessed those wildest of orgies commemorated by the pen of Juvenal.
It was an ill-famed vale, noted even in remote antiquity for the gross orgies whence it had gained its evil repute, after the cult of Isis had been brought from Egypt to Rome.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orgies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
