saturnalias

The undercurrent of these saturnalias is a melancholy deprivation of freedom and possibilities in tiny worlds such as "Pammydiddle" that cheat women out of their potential.

'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

In that house secret saturnalias of literature and art, politics and finance were carried on; there, desire reigned a sovereign; there, caprice and fancy were as sacred as honor and virtue to a bourgeoise; thither came Blondet, Finot, Etienne Lousteau, Vernou the feuilletonist,

A Daughter of Eve 2007

Taillefer, our amphitryon, has undertaken to surpass the circumscribed saturnalias of the petty modern Lucullus.

The Magic Skin 2007

Then she fell to thinking of all the strange scenes in the life history of the world on which the moon had looked -- stricken fields, barbaric rites, unrecorded crimes, sacked and burning cities, the blackened remains of martyrs at the stake, enslaved nations sleeping fitfully after the day's travail, wrecks on uncharted seas, forgotten superstitions, pagan saturnalias -- all the thousand and one phases of life as it has been and is lived.

Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

I need not describe to you some of our social saturnalias.

Danger 1847

Parisian saturnalias were the result of them, etc., etc.

The Jealousies of a Country Town Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Reflect upon that sentence, and ask yourselves if the worst tyrants in their saturnalias ever gave more horribly burlesque reasons for their cruelties.

Catherine De Medici Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Taillefer, our amphitryon, has undertaken to surpass the circumscribed saturnalias of the petty modern Lucullus.

The Magic Skin Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Parisian saturnalias were the result of them, etc., etc.

An Old Maid Honor�� de Balzac 1824

a howling wilderness by reason of damp and rats; but there were those of his Bohemian friends who could have told of jovial parties assembled there in November, and saturnalias celebrated there in January; for Mr. Wooster was a bachelor of very liberal opinions, and had two sets of visitors.

The Lovels of Arden 1875