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

In both the subjects, of the Fall and the Drunkenness, the tree, which forms the chiefly decorative portion of the sculpture,—fig in the one case, vine in the other,—was a necessary adjunct.

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

Six of the Aldermen, the grosser moral sins—Swearing, Stand to Lies, Drunkenness, Cheating, and others—are overcome and killed.

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony