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

Drunkenness is scarcely known in France; and one may travel all through it and never witness the degrading sight of a drunken man.

From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel

He signed the pledge—the strict "teetotal" pledge— And felt determined constant war to wage Against the huge, fierce monster, Drunkenness Which caused, on every hand, such sore distress.

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

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

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