bacchante

• He had met with all sorts of adventures, often very nearly starving, now beaten and ill-used by his bacchante, a big student, from whom he received a doubtful sort of protection, now escaping from him and being taken care of by humane people, wandering from school to school, picking up a very small amount of knowledge, being employed chiefly in singing and begging through the towns to obtain food. —  Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany
• The big bacchante, from whom Thomas had escaped, was a relative who had promised to befriend him. —  Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany
• "You are too respectable for a bacchante, too vivacious for anything else." —  Through stained glass
• Mćnad.= A bacchante,--a priestess or votary of Bacchus 276. —  Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems
• Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH); 9May55 R149184 HICHENS, ROBERT The bacchante: the story of a brief career; illustrated by W. Smithson Broadhead 12Aug27; A999354. —  U.S. Copyright Renewals 1950 - 1977

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