Bacchus

[ US /ˈbækɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. (classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus
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How To Use Bacchus In A Sentence

  • Pierre le grand: Or, "The poker chip" and "The buskin," Bacchus, and Aphrodite (not Venus), Comus, and Momus: exalting natural virtues and rebuking hypocracy both in church and state by J. W Rogers New York Times Hypes Iran Threat By Pretending Not To
  • The consulting detective was also pleased with the discussion; his eyes glinted like the sparks of attritive flint; and though his sips were dainty, as befitted a gentleman savoring the fruit of Bacchus, the sips were frequent and exuberant. An East Wind Coming
  • Plunging from his cheetah-drawn chariot, Bacchus looses arrows of longing from his eyes at Ariadne, and transfixes her in mid-flight.
  • Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus grows cold.
  • The Bacchanalia and the Liberalia were related religious festivals in ancient Rome, in honor of Bacchus.
  • Bacchus in early likenesses was a bearded man, but later he was pictured as a youth.
  • _Evoe, evoe, _ and you will neither worship Comus nor Bacchus! Waverley Novels — Volume 12
  • Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • Madame could not have chosen better foils for her own voluptuous style than the three women, all angles -- looking as she always did, as though she had been visiting Vulcan, and feeding on the red-hot coals beneath his hammer, while quenching her thirst from a cantharus given her by the hand of Bacchus himself. A Heart-Song of To-day
  • Nay, even the tipsy crew at Bacchus's affected to treat her name with scorn: -- "The girl had made much noise about being called a trull, as if many a better than she wasn't one; and, after all, what was the prudish wench? The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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