How To Use Bacchante In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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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.
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Molly driving a car in Jamaica will be like Pavlova doing a bacchante on the point of a needle!
The Bent Twig
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The side walls were decorated with fauns and naked bacchantes carrying vases of flowers.
The Coming of the King
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The women—bare shouldered, their hair à la bacchante, with long curls at the back entwined with vine leaves and bunches of grapes—waltzed around the staid little queen.
THE DIAMOND
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Et quemadmodum omnes isti miseri aperte delirant, præcipue ii quos zeli æstus eousque deducit, ut tanquam bacchantes aut cerriti per plateas, domos, templa, absque ullo ordine et respectu cursitantes concionentur, et interdum _anseres, equos, vel oves_ (cujus rei ibi satis frequentia exempla occurrunt) dum eis homines aures præbere nolunt, ad suas opiniones convertere tentent.
Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850
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The course of the rivulet of wine, from which a Bacchante is scooping a jugful, is confused, perhaps through the deterioration of the paint or through inept restoration.
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Daring beauty, wild, lovely bacchante, with black, beaming eyes, tempt us not with that bright flame to destruction!
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Here you may see two fine Rubens, a portrait of Philip IV of Spain, and a Silenus with Bacchantes, a great picture of James I of England with his family, painted by some "imitator" of Vandyck, though who it was in Genoa that knew both Vandyck and England is not yet clear; a Ribera, a Reni, a
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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On the back of each of the pair of vases is a frieze of dancing bacchantes framed at the sides and bottom by a scroll ornament all in grisaille.
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Wherever she came there was laughter among the ladies, of the high hysteric bacchante kind, not true mirth, but
The Heavenly Twins
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Shiva and Dionysos, albeit a far closer match, also have various nuances and differences in how they interface with bhakti / bacchantes.
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At the base of the arches, four bacchantes, their torsos ending in consoles….
Savoring The Past
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The divertisement ended with a dance of Bacchus and Bacchantes.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
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Ho! Pentheus, thou that art so cager to see what is forbidden, and to show thy zeal in an unworthy cause, come forth before the palace, let me see thee clad as a woman in frenzied Bacchante's dress, to spy upon thy own mother and her company.
The Bacchantes
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Picturesque ruins become eloquent backdrops for biblical dramas, daydreams of shepherds and bacchantes, or meditations on the pettiness of modern life.
Museums: The Romance of Ruins
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Over the gilt balustrade surmounting the cornice lolled the figures of fauns, bacchantes, nereids and tritons, hovered over by a cloud of amorini blown like rose-leaves across a rosy sky, while in the centre of the dome Apollo burst in his chariot through the mists of dawn, escorted by a fantastic procession of the human races.
The Valley of Decision
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The ropedancer remembered this statement, questioned other Bacchantes about these things, and heard the doctrine of the transmigration of the soul confirmed.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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Before his return to Paris he had already begun to specialize in the small-scale terracotta statuettes and reliefs of satyrs, bacchantes, and other mythological figures for which he is famous.
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We reach deep into the entombed secrets of our soul, dare to pull on those threads that originate in forbidden desires, and dance in disguise with the abandon of bacchantes.
Nor certitude, nor peace
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In very truth, thought Grainier, it is a salamandera nymphtis a goddessa bacchante of Mount Mæ nalus!
III. Besos Para Golpes. Book II