drunkenness

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The consequences are fearsomely Dionysian, as Schoenberg pours out reams of thrillingly vicious orchestral and choral writing during set pieces like Dance of the Butchers and the Orgy of Drunkenness and Dancing.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2016

Among the poems were "A Turncoat of the Times," Spenser's "Prosopopeia," "The Scyrge of Drunkenness," a "Description of a Good Wife," the ballad of "The Maunding Soldier," and Wither's works.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

Dewson, Miss Mary, 189 Disease and its relation to crime, 8, 220 Don Bosco, the Black Pope, 157, 173 Drunkenness, temporary, 141.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Lombroso, Gina

Then she went into the causes, and she said Drunkenness and Detraction were the chief causes of strife and contention.

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles

What is the spirit of our German mysticism, the spirit of Eckhart and Tauler, except: Drunkenness of the soul in a waking condition?

From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Smith, Thomas F. A.