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The consequences are fearsomely Dionysian, as Schoenberg pours out reams of thrillingly vicious orchestral and choral writing during set pieces like Dance of the Butchers and the Orgy of Drunkenness and Dancing.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2016

The second sculpture is on the angle of the Vine: Its subject is the Drunkenness of Noah.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

There were some books here: a Treatise against Drunkenness, translated from the French; a volume of the Spectator; a volume of Prideaux's Connection, and Cyrus's Travels.

From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Boswell, James

Gluttony is both motive and disposition; so Lust and Drunkenness; with the added sense of reprobation in all the three.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

He signed the pledge—the strict "teetotal" pledge— And felt determined constant war to wage Against the huge, fierce monster, Drunkenness Which caused, on every hand, such sore distress.

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas