bacchantes
- plural of bacchant.
Example Sentences
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They also show off by picking up guitars and microphones and dancing like prairie bacchantes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2019
The tension is not in the contest but in the axiomatic revelation uttered by the chorus of the bacchantes: "Knowledge is not wisdom."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was nymphs, nymphs, dryads, bacchantes, running down from the heights into the plain….
From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
Presently I noticed casually that a procession of bacchantes limned on the wall immediately below the ceiling had begun to move, traversing the room from right to left in a gay and spectacular pilgrimage.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
Frequently he had companions, three or four schützen and twice as many bacchantes, the former performing, in fact, in rough style, the part of fags to the older students.
From Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany by Kingston, William Henry Giles
