bacchantic

1 "Why resist?" she cried, in bliss, throwing her head back, as if to toss from her brow streaming bacchantic locks.

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

3 But, beginning with the story of the barbarian invasions in the third volume, Professor Jones's interpretation took on a fury that was almost bacchantic.

4 I arrived late and only saw the end of the processions; far more carriages, wilder shouting, more madness,—bacchantic, stormy,—than last time.

5 You can only exorcise and curse me, or slay yourselves in bacchantic madness before my altar.

6 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.

7 But she adores him; she loves him with that mad, bacchantic ardor which the Roman empress Julia felt for the gladiators, whose magnificent proportions she admired at the circus.

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