Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.
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Very confident, the guard very negligent, the men carousing in the houses.
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The last day of the payment is, invariably, one of general carousing.
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I guessed he was feeling the aftereffects of our night's carousing too.
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Instead of sitting here carousing, we ought to go solemnly to bed.
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Wherever Brederode was, there, it was probable, would be much severe carousing.
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This is the immemorial bacchanal lurching through the kaleidoscope of the centuries.
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The individual I had seen at Baden,-thegamester, the bacchanal, the debauchee!
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His eye was alight, his color coppery, his air swagger, devil-may-care, bacchanal.
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It's usually a deeply technical bacchanal, but this year was not.
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At the height of the bacchanal I emptied the purse into a bottle.
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Bressant looked up and recognized the rustic bacchanalian for the first time.
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But my social recollections of Baltimore are by no means exclusively bacchanalian.
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Two bacchanalian pictures on the wall suddenly had yawning wounds in their centre.
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And up starts a wild, dissolute, bacchanalian glee for seven voices.
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It was really a bacchanalian blowout, and we're all feeling the effects of it.
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A bacchic emulation reigned, which threatened to end in scenes bordering upon a debauch.
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The Syrian damsels, who appeared at first in the bacchic dance, mingled now with the guests.
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Is the bike transforming this staid old world into one wild bacchic orgy or phallic revel?
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Woman has filled the world with war's alarms, and the bacchic revel has ended in the brawl.
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It is a liquor worthy to be sung at Teos and at the Temple by the princes of bacchic poets, Anacreon and Chaulieu.
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The populace drifted here, into complete indifference, there, into orgiastic forms of worship.
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Servants, stationed throughout this orgiastic celebration-ofcourse there would be.
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When the Minotaur appears in the studio, the hitherto relaxed mood becomes fiercely orgiastic.
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And he had intermittently dozed during the progress of the demonstration and its orgiastic sequel.
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The kind of orgiastic existences that Roma was famous for in Nero's time, I mean.
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Even the Dry-towners shunned the orgiastic rituals of Kamaina.
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This orgiastic intercourse between the corrupt and the criminal was not confined to one country.
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Not even the dead woman's blood was visible in that orgiastic mass of writhing flesh.
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Witness the post-World.com orgiastic castigation of avaricious CEO's.
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Apart from the orgiastic goings-on at the Comte de Giverney's notorious house parties there was high-stakes gaming.
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Having beaten both McDonald and Fenwick in one impossibly smooth movement, the finish was an orgiastic formality.
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Joyous, voluptuous, androgynous, he yet remains the god who brought strange gifts and orgiastic rites to men.
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Flowers is the definitive Kemp work: orgiastic, violent, teetering constantly on the verge of bathos, and thoroughly homosexual.
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One adviser characterized the plan as "orgiastic, Wagnerian."
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All followed by orgiastic celebration-bonfireglow and the cries of women in wild orgasm on a surf backdrop.
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My love will even survive a disappointing exit today against decadent, orgiastic sexual maniac Victor Troiki of Serbia.