bacchanalian

• He meandered down an aisle filled with sculptures of bacchanalian orgies. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
• She gave me a malevolent look, and I knew that I had made an enemy The others were planning for a bacchanalian dance to take place in the basement parlor, which was reserved for such revels. —  MADELEINE: An Autobiography
• The incident kept the notion alive of curling as a bacchanalian sport both on and off the ice. —  News1130.com
• "I wish to ascertain," said the caliph to the vizier, "if the unlucky Yussuf has managed to provide for his bacchanalian revels to-night There can be no doubt, O vice-gerent of the Prophet," replied Giaffar, "that the young man is seated in the dark, in a most dismal mood, without either wine or kabob, or aught to comfort him Send for Mesrour, then; we will again resume our disguises, and pay him a visit Let the humblest of your slaves," interposed Giaffar in a great fright, "represent at the footstool of your highness a true picture of what we may anticipate. —  The Pacha of Many Tales
• There he had arranged a bacchanalian orgy of which the Pope's letter gives a picture DEAR SON: We have learned that your Worthiness, forgetful of the high office with which you are invested, was present from the seventeenth to the twenty-second hour, four days ago, in the gardens of John de Bichis, where there were several women of Siena women wholly given over to worldly vanities. —  Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day

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