saturnalia

• Still, though the least, it is far too great for the safety of the country; and after the saturnalia which the shameful supineness and cowardice of Ministers have allowed, I know not how popular commotion is to be avoided. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Memoirs of the Court of George IV., Vol. I, by The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
• But after watching the $150 million imperial saturnalia, augmented by the siren songs of fawners, spin doctors, and state mouthpieces, despair and anxiety rage inside my battered brain. —  Politics in the Zeros
• Now, however, the saturnalia is about over. —  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
• Hoh! Hoh The Sun Man is dead (As darkness increases the dance grows into a saturnalia, until complete darkness settles down and hides the hillside.) —  The Acorn-Planter A California Forest Play (1916)
• The howling of the circus girls up on the rocks paralyzed my faculties It was a hideous saturnalia, and deafened by the brass and percussion instruments I tried to get away, but my neighbors protested and I was forced to sit and suffer. —  Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques

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