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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

Then she went into the causes, and she said Drunkenness and Detraction were the chief causes of strife and contention.

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles

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

Among the poems were "A Turncoat of the Times," Spenser's "Prosopopeia," "The Scyrge of Drunkenness," a "Description of a Good Wife," the ballad of "The Maunding Soldier," and Wither's works.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

Six of the Aldermen, the grosser moral sins—Swearing, Stand to Lies, Drunkenness, Cheating, and others—are overcome and killed.

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony