bacchanale

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When she discovers a "drunk-ass lesbian" (Bobbi Starr) passed out on her lawn after yet another vagitarian bacchanale, Ireland takes matters in her own hands and starts a petition among proper neighborhood ladies to oust them.

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  • When she discovers a "drunk-ass lesbian" (Bobbi Starr) passed out on her lawn after yet another vagitarian bacchanale, Ireland takes matters in her own hands and starts a petition among proper neighborhood ladies to oust them. —  Fleshbot
  • It will be as the lives of the Romans in Greece -- a bacchanale of peculiar formalities. —  Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes
  • Gavre will perform her aerial routine to the bacchanale from Camille Saint-Saëns 'opera "Samson and Delilah." —  News & Observer: Home Page
  • For the "rugissements et bondissements, bacchanale et saturnale, galop infernal, ronde du sabbat tout le tremblement," these words give a most clear, untranslatable idea of the Carnival ball. —  The Paris Sketch Book
  • In a dance segment, the Philistines engage in a spirited pagan celebration, complete with a whirling dervish, the sacrifice of a goat, the deflowering of a virgin, and wild dancing to the strains of an exotic bacchanale. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
 

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