corybantic

• “Our host is Louis Fourie, a former South African wine farmer of corybantic energy and sun-pinched eyes who had a dream when he was 14 to own land where he couldn't see the borders.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I

• “It was not unnatural that Welhaven should look upon the corybantic music of Wergeland as the source and origin of an evil of which it was really the symptom; he gathered his powers together to crush it, and he published a thunderbolt of sonnets.”

  Henrik Ibsen

• “Cake cats can cause corybantic coeliac convulsions!”

  Stop the Insanity!!

• “Then suddenly, heralded by clattering sounds and a gride of wheels, Dangle had flared and thundered across the tranquillity of the summer evening; Dangle, swaying and gesticulating behind a corybantic black horse, had hailed Jessie by her name, had backed towards the hedge for no ostensible reason, and vanished to the accomplishment of the Fate that had been written down for him from the very beginning of things.”

  The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll

• “I knew there was nothing in them and no bottom to the whole story; and the drums and shouts and cries from Tanugamanono and the town keeping up an all night corybantic chorus in the moonlight — the moon rose late — and the search-light of the war-ship in the harbour making a jewel of brightness as it lit up the bay of”

  Vailima Letters

• “I could have used this when I lived in Los Angeles, you know, back in my corybantic days, when I would party corybantically all weekend.”

  Inspiration on a Tuesday

• “The word of the day is “corybantic,” defined by AWAD as “wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.””

  Inspiration on a Tuesday

• “The doctor looked from the corybantic captain to his primly smirking daughter, adjusted his spectacles, and sighed.”

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

• “Akadie spoke in his most didactic voice: The name derives from old Glottisch: Fan is a corybantic celebration of glory.”

  Trullion: Alastor 2262

• “In the Albert Hall, where he made his _début_ amid scenes of corybantic enthusiasm last week, the diminutive”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914

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