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

But Aristotle, in his book on Drunkenness, says, that some men who have been fond of salt meat have yet not had their thirst stimulated by it; of whom Archonides the Argive was one.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Krishna himself was slain by accident, while a hurricane or tidal wave sweeping over the "city of Drunkenness" wiped it off the face of the earth.

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

There were some books here: a Treatise against Drunkenness, translated from the French; a volume of the Spectator; a volume of Prideaux's Connection, and Cyrus's Travels.

From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Boswell, James