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

The second sculpture is on the angle of the Vine: Its subject is the Drunkenness of Noah.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

Gluttony is both motive and disposition; so Lust and Drunkenness; with the added sense of reprobation in all the three.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander