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It is not Bacchus's only, but Slavery's "black servant, negro fine," and belongs, after all, to that Africa which he says "breeds no such prodigious poison."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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Bacchus's footsteps as he could, but his was not the true Bacchanalian temperament.
White Ashes Alden Charles Noble
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They, too, were drunk with the madness of out-of-doors, Bacchus's maenads.
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Bacchus's birth is sung, and how from the flashing lightning Jove snatched him and preserved in his thigh, until at the fated hour he gave him to light, horned and crowned with serpents.
Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886
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That on the left is the palace of Pentheus, and further to the left is the mystic scene of Bacchus's birth -- a heap of ruins, still miraculously smouldering, and covered by trailing vines.
Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886
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To the right of the bed, was the small chest of drawers, over which was suspended Bacchus's many-sided piece of shaving glass, and underneath it a pine box containing his shaving weapons.
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The older ones slept in the servants 'wing in the house, Phillis making use of two enormous chests, which were Bacchus's, and her wardrobes, for sleeping purposes for a couple more.
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She granted herself a search-warrant, and determined to find some clue to Bacchus's marvellous story.
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Bacchus's lasso failed altogether, and very soon the cat became so enraged that Bacchus was obliged to take a three-legged stool, and act on the defensive.
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Two or three blows excited Jupiter's anger to frenzy, and after several efforts he succeeded in clawing Bacchus's face in the most dreadful manner, so that it was with the greatest difficulty he could clear himself.
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