A bacchic emulation reigned, which threatened to end in scenes bordering upon a debauch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Discovered, Pentheus is torn to pieces by his mother who, in bacchic frenzy, mistakes him for a lion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bacchae by Euripides – review] Reference

Surely this is a very obvious image or symbol of the beautiful, the ideal, aspect of bacchic elation and revelry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hedda Gabler] Reference

He lay upon his bed in the same position in which he had first been placed, and was sleeping that heavy, painful sleep which serves as an expiation for bacchic excesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Welles, undeterred, pulled them together into a single film of operatic excess, bacchic camaraderie and, at its time, the greatest battle scenes since Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best New DVDs] Reference

For Porcia, being extremely disturbed with expectation of the event, and not able to bear the greatness of her anxiety, could scarce keep herself within doors; and at every little noise or voice she heard, starting up suddenly, like those possessed with the bacchic frenzy, she asked everyone that came in from the forum what Brutus was doing, and sent one messenger after another to inquire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Teos and at the Temple by the princes of bacchic poets, Anacreon and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen Pedauque] Reference

Is the bike transforming this staid old world into one wild bacchic orgy or phallic revel?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.] Reference

Woman has filled the world with war's alarms, and the bacchic revel has ended in the brawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12] Reference

The Syrian damsels, who appeared at first in the bacchic dance, mingled now with the guests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

Tenniers himself could have given but a feeble idea of it; a Salvator Rosa battle-piece treated as a bacchic feast would be nearer the mark.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Quasimodo. Book I] Reference

Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life] Reference

These songs, which later became bacchic or amorous in character, and which subsequently developed into the popular drama known as "Vaudeville", were in the beginning chiefly of an historical nature recounting the invasion of Normandy by the English.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Everything tends to show that his convelescence will be brief; and who knows even if at our next village festivity we shall not see our good Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

The waltz which she had herself played, rang in her head, and excited her; wherever she happened to find herself, all she had to do was to imagine to herself lights, a ball-room, the swift whirling to the sounds of music -- and her soul went fairly aflame, her eyes darkened strangely, a smile hovered over her lips, something gracefully-bacchic was disseminated all over her body.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Nobleman's Nest] Reference

A bacchic dance with girls of Syria to the sounds of cithara, lutes, drums, and cymbals, -- a dance filled with wild shouts and still wilder license, -- it seemed to Lygia that living fire was burning her, and that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

The bacchic revelry bursts forth in glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Immovable First Part] Reference

Rabelais with the bacchic form of his great work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lily of the Valley] Reference