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A night of bacchanalian revelry. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A bacchanalian party or feast is marked by unrestrained drunkenness. From Wordnik.com. [Bacchus] Reference
There he had arranged a bacchanalian orgy of which the Pope's letter gives a picture. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
In a frenzy of bacchanalian expectation, she clutched his arm and pulled him toward the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of Riddick]
The same bacchanalian orgies follow the next full purse. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
It is both festive and haunting, spooky yet bacchanalian. From Wordnik.com. [Y.P.R.: Untitled Post] Reference
A big change from Clinton I's five days of bacchanalian excess. From Wordnik.com. [Inauguration Committee Announces Smaller Scale; Feinstein Calls For Small-Scale Prohibition] Reference
I would plan huge bacchanalian vacations; I'd be the Cruise Director. From Wordnik.com. [Susie Bright: Are You a Marryin' Fool?] Reference
Odin and the gods in the toasts drunk at their bacchanalian festivals. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
York, and even against Captain Costigan, but was beaten by that superior bacchanalian artist. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
With his recent excesses hardly bacchanalian, arguably Hart's biggest crime was being a little naive. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Hart is confident Manchester City fans will be raising glasses] Reference
Marie suburb, to indemnify himself with bacchanalian and other consolations for long-endured hardship. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
I think a good philosophical case can also be made for the bacchanalian spirit in society, as a safety valve. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
• More bacchanalian madness from Greece's tourist office in London as the country reels from creditors and rioters. From Wordnik.com. [Diary] Reference
Masked men and women cavorted with bacchanalian abandon as the clock ticked toward midnight and the end of Fat Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [Fat Tuesday]
The passengers who lay in the cabin below in all the agonies of sea-sickness, must have found our bacchanalian merriment. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
The kickoff event, though, is more cerebral than bacchanalian: a beer-centric edition of the monthly Nerd Nite happy hour. From Wordnik.com. [Going Out Gurus highlight bands, parties, beer celebrations in D.C., Md., Va.] Reference
That sparked an intense, wide-ranging and oddly appropriate discussion of the banking behemoth's own bacchanalian behavior. From Wordnik.com. [The Goldman Board Game] Reference
Christianity has not been able to abolish the noisy bacchanalian festivals of the pagan times, but it has changed the names. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A whole plantation — thousands of dollars 'worth of trees — can be ruined in one wild bacchanalian night of elk cavorting. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Heartbeats] Reference
I very much doubt the quickening or brightening of the wits which bacchanalian poets have conventionally attributed to alcohol. From Wordnik.com. [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference
But in appearance he still ruled, dozing oft-times at the board, a bacchanalian ruin, yet in all seeming the ruler of the feast. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit of Porportuk] Reference
The capital city has suddenly turned into a bacchanalian vortex this weekend, thanks to a harmonic convergence on Harriet Island. From Wordnik.com. [weapons of massdistraction › The Dog-end Of A Day Gone By] Reference
In other words, these addictions and bacchanalian outpourings both hide and reveal larger social crimes against women themselves. From Wordnik.com. ['Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_] Reference
His hair tingled and he saw pictures — bacchanalian scenes — which swiftly, and yet in vain, he sought to put out of his mind. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena more than made up for its relatively tame episode the previous week with Friday's bacchanalian excesses. From Wordnik.com. [Spartacus Episode 4: Things That Made Us Go "Ew!"] Reference
But Daytona Beach's bacchanalian atmosphere is part of the allure for domestic missionaries -- it's what's called "battleground evangelism.". From Wordnik.com. [Where Would Jesus Spend Spring Break?] Reference
The kickoff event, though, is more cerebral than bacchanalian: A beer-centric edition of the monthly Nerd Nite happy hour at the Rock and Roll Hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Nightlife Agenda] Reference
Nuptials, bacchanalian fêtes, games, and dances, are crowded upon their sculptured sides, in seeming mockery of the pitiable relics of humanity within. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
For all of his unfortunate bacchanalian excesses, there may have never been a more all-around gifted comedian and yes, no-holds-barred social commentator. From Wordnik.com. [“The Mick”] Reference
I think it is positively good that people get drunk every now and then in a bacchanalian spirit, despite the fact that people will suffer injury as a result. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Hearsay of "somewhat bacchanalian excesses," in his view, probably had "a lot of truth to it.". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
His first season in Baltimore seemed to suggest that bacchanalian feats would be legendary and the town would never be the same again. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The bacchanalian reveleries usually favoured by bankers to mark the end of another lucrative year became a casualty of the global credit crunch. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
In a city where a "stag night" is an excuse for a bacchanalian party, that phrase took a new meaning with antlers and horns attached to the heads of the models. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
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