bacchanalians

The streets were filled with beer and cocktail wielding bacchanalians, but no need for alarm as the city's good-natured police department, kept things running smoothly and securely to ensure everyone had a good time.

Tamie Adaya: Bay to Breakers: A Great Day for the Race... The Human Race Tamie Adaya 2011

The streets were filled with beer and cocktail wielding bacchanalians, but no need for alarm as the city's good-natured police department, kept things running smoothly and securely to ensure everyone had a good time.

Tamie Adaya: Bay to Breakers: A Great Day for the Race... The Human Race Tamie Adaya 2011

Plato cautioned fellow Greeks against divulging the myths of the gods - a notoriously NC-17 lot of irredeemably wanton bacchanalians - to little ones perhaps too young and impressionable to comprehend their allegorical nature, as well as the social necessity of implementing such cautionary tales of debauchery and deceit (tales, incidentally, that pale in quantity, degree, and creepiness to the rampant violence, sex, and inexplicably graphic episodes of fetishism found in the Hebrew Bible).

Brock Cohen: Welcome to Bubble Boy Nation 2010

But, though his heyday of fashion was gone, Sir George still held his place among the musicians of the old school, conducted occasionally at the Ancient Concerts and the Philharmonic, and his glees are still favourites after public dinners, and are sung by those old bacchanalians, in chestnut wigs, who attend for the purpose of amusing the guests on such occasions of festivity.

Mens Wives 2006

And shouldering his stick, and scowling round at the company of scared bacchanalians, the indignant gentleman stalked away, his boy after him.

The Newcomes 2006

I should, perhaps, go into a profound disquisition, but I am about to paint the paradise of these bacchanalians; the colours are prepared -- let us finish the picture.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829 Various

Standish appeared among the bacchanalians one morning, perfectly sober, and they were not.

Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

It seems to have been divulged that instead of being motoring bacchanalians and diamond-hungry _loreleis_ they are businesslike folk, students and ascetics with childer and homes and libraries, owning real estate, and conducting their private affairs in as orderly and unsensational a manner as any of us good citizens who are bound to the chariot wheels of the gas, rent, coal, ice, and wardmen.

Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

Standish appeared among the bacchanalians one morning, perfectly sober, and they were not.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Elbert Hubbard 1885

At this moment a large crowd of men, comprising all the idle population in town, as well as many Saturday-night bacchanalians from the country and coasts, some standing before the tavern, others on the opposite sidewalks or gathered on the court-house corner, seeing the hatted figure of Meshach rise against the moonlight, raised the scattering cry, finally deepening into a yell, of:

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877