1 Emperor Nero attended the bacchanalian orgy.

2 The spirit of this bacchanalian revelry of Europe found entrance into our demurely well-behaved social world, woke us up, and made us lively.

3 No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of monsieur Defarge: but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark, lay hidden in the dregs of it.

4 And Mardi Gras , today, is a boisterous, bacchanalian splurge of music and mayhem.

5 More and more leaves had begun to fall, some on his naked back, and some scattered in his hair, where they remained like Bacchanalian vine leaves.

6 At 2 A. M. the neighbors called the police to quell the bacchanalian revelry in the upstairs apartment.

7 And when they told him what one would expect of their age , he began to be merry , declaring that a vintage celebrated in such a manner was truly bacchanalian .

8 In a city where a “stag night” is an excuse for a bacchanalian party, that phrase took a new meaning with antlers and horns attached to the heads of the models.

9 The guzzlers of Munich's beer halls are the stuff of bacchanalian legend: now they have to contend with rivals hailing from the bars and street stalls of Hanoi and New Delhi.