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"Diffuse and absurd," wrote Vienna's Express, "grotesque and bacchantic."

From Time Magazine Archive

The toil and fever of preparation, the bacchantic orgies of purchase, the dressing up, the celebration of the festival—these were the joys of the wedding to her, and she had drained them to the full.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert

Thus heard, the rondinella sounds well: it is of the woods and deserts; strange, barbaric, oriental, bacchantic, what you please, save dawdling drawing-room and piano-ic.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

A vacant, deathlike, fearful silence reigns On every side around the lonely palace, So wont to ring with wild bacchantic shouts— No breath is stirring—on Cithaeron's height Exulting Juno stands.

From The Poems of Schiller — First period by Schiller, Friedrich

The soaring upwards of rockets, the splashing of fountains, and the popping of champagne corks accompanied the wild bacchantic dance.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)