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A decade has passed since Producer White offered the first of his popular saturnalias.

From Time Magazine Archive

I need not describe to you some of our social saturnalias.

From Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Reflect upon that sentence, and ask yourselves if the worst tyrants in their saturnalias ever gave more horribly burlesque reasons for their cruelties.

From Catherine De Medici by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

It is to be hoped that the sermons are not too dry, that the tea saturnalias are neither too hot nor too wet, and that the collections have more sixpenny than threepenny pieces in them.

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

Taillefer, our amphitryon, has undertaken to surpass the circumscribed saturnalias of the petty modern Lucullus.

From The Magic Skin by Marriage, Ellen