Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Wherever she came there was laughter among the ladies, of the high hysteric bacchante kind, not true mirth, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

Daring beauty, wild, lovely bacchante, with black, beaming eyes, tempt us not with that bright flame to destruction!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

= A bacchante, -- a priestess or votary of Bacchus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems] Reference

Just as Boston, finding its bronze bacchante immodest, rejected the brazen hussey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906] Reference

Molly driving a car in Jamaica will be like Pavlova doing a bacchante on the point of a needle!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bent Twig] Reference

The big bacchante, from whom Thomas had escaped, was a relative who had promised to befriend him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany] Reference

I then painted Mme. Harte as a bacchante reclining by the edge of the sea, holding a goblet in her hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference

“In very truth, ” thought Grainier, “it is a salamander—a nymph—’tis a goddess—a bacchante of Mount Mæ nalus!.    From Wordnik.com.  [III. Besos Para Golpes. Book II] Reference

"So, my master, and is this the way you afford your protection?" exclaimed Eric, looking angrily at the big bacchante.    From Wordnik.com.  [Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany] Reference

Freedom, but what a difference between the wild-eyed bacchante of the earlier day and the decorous muse of 'William Tell'!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference

Her face was red and her lips swollen; she looked like a very bacchante of sorrow, and as if she had been on some mad orgy of grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portion of Labor] Reference

Beatrice, like a bacchante, had bound her brows with vine leaves one of which Charles now broke off and handed to the competing minstrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference

I perceived her, under the heavy procession of his words, a figure of astounding romance, an adventuress incomparable, a Polynesian bacchante.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

"Gladly, most noble sir," answered the boy, throwing down the goose and springing out of the way of the big bacchante, who sought to detain him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany] Reference

She had a great quantity of fine chestnut hair, sufficient to cover her entirely, and thus, as a bacchante with flying hair, she was admirable to behold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference

I held in my arms a superb danseuse from an Italian theater who had come to Paris for the carnival; she wore the costume of a bacchante, with a dress of panther's skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confession of a Child of the Century] Reference

Her eyes a-kindle, her hair flying, she showed you a bewitching bacchante; then, all of a sudden, her face expressed grief, and you saw a magnificent repentant Magdalen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference

If youth and beauty would but come back to her, she would recklessly cast off all her veils, would stand in the middle of the studio as arrogantly as a bacchante, crying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)] Reference

The bacchante grumbled and looked very angry at this, and threatened to come after Thomas and carry him off; but Eric advised him to make no attempt of the sort as the boy was now under his protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany] Reference

‘perfectly’ may be, it indicates a degree of civilisation and culture which I could never have imagined as having been attained by the bacchante with the bicycle, the frenzied muse of the golf-course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within a Budding Grove] Reference

Sometimes he besought her to allow the flood of her hair to flow over her shoulders in a river of gold richer than the Pactolus, to encircle her brow with a crown of ivy and linden leaves like a bacchante of Mount.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Candaules] Reference

The water of the pool flowed, fresh and clear, from the wine skin of a bronze bacchante, hideously squat and fat and green with age, which with drunken eyes in a back-thrown head leered mysteriously down upon the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plunderer] Reference

Only the pen of some mirth-loving, rose-crowned Greek bard could adequately describe the dazzling, wild beauty and fantastic grace of those whirling fairy forms, that now inspired to a bacchante-like ardor, urged one another to fresh speed with brief soft cries of musical rapture!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardath] Reference

A bacchante on the roof, albeit manipulating large buckets of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Californians] Reference

A servant's hands, your girl with the face as pure as a pearl seemed nothing but a bacchante.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference

Mause’s zeal broke forth once more at this spectacle, while she stood on the heath with her head uncovered, and her grey hairs streaming in the wind, no bad representation of a superannuated bacchante, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Mortality] Reference

Bacchus or a bacchante.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

A bacchante dying in her sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Precipitations] Reference

The same, as a bacchante dancing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference

Lady Hamilton, as a reclining bacchante.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference

The bacchante body is glistening in the light.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference

` bacchante, 'and I am a poor little ` schutz.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany] Reference