How To Use bacchante In A Sentence
- The rich ceiling in its pure plastic was modeled after the Elizabeth hall in the royal palace of Berlin, the stucco figures, as well as the decorations of the ceiling, likewise the golden medallions at the four corners, representing a procession of bacchantes, while the rich door panelings were modeled in the royal palace and placed here. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
- The figures are crowned with roses and daffodills and have the dishevelled look of bacchantes in ecstasy…There is an aesthetic of horror as well as an aesthetic of hedonism. Forgotten Master: Hiremy-Hirschl
- Other exhibits and films include the step-by-step process of making the "Bacchantes" vase, designed in 1927 and still produced in the Wingen factory today, and a documentary on contemporary glassmaking. A Display of Lalique's Beauty
- I perceived her, under the heavy procession of his words, a figure of astounding romance, an adventuress incomparable, a Polynesian bacchante. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
- Hung with flowers, she looked like a bacchante, with one beautiful arm and shoulder showing bare through her mantle of tumbled hair. Leonie of the Jungle
- I have posed for nearly an hour upon one foot with extended arms in a dance of bacchantes, till I have fainted. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
- Their cheeks glowed, their eyes glared; they resembled Bacchantes circling the god of riotous joviality with their shouts of "Evoe! evoe! Henry VIII and His Court
- Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
- Despite the presence of bacchantes and the references to wine, the bacchanalian aspect of the scene is greatly subdued, reducing the feeling of revelry and recklessness.
- Molly driving a car in Jamaica will be like Pavlova doing a bacchante on the point of a needle! The Bent Twig
