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

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

Drunkenness is not associated with Zeus, or unchastity with Hera or Athene.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by Lord, John

Didn’t he write some Essays on Drunkenness once? or on Dreams? p. 66Farewell for the present, my dear Sir. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis