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A decade has passed since Producer White offered the first of his popular saturnalias.

From Time Magazine Archive

Russia prepared her saturnalias to celebrate a definite victory.

From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy

Taillefer, our amphitryon, has undertaken to surpass the circumscribed saturnalias of the petty modern Lucullus.

From The Magic Skin by Marriage, Ellen

I need not describe to you some of our social saturnalias.

From Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

It is to be hoped that the sermons are not too dry, that the tea saturnalias are neither too hot nor too wet, and that the collections have more sixpenny than threepenny pieces in them.

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus