Bacchante

The women—bare shouldered, their hair à la bacchante, with long curls at the back entwined with vine leaves and bunches of grapes—waltzed around the staid little queen. ❋ JULIE BAUMGOLD (2005)

Wherever she came there was laughter among the ladies, of the high hysteric bacchante kind, not true mirth, but ❋ Madame Sarah Grand (N/A)

Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Hung with flowers, she looked like a bacchante, with one beautiful arm and shoulder showing bare through her mantle of tumbled hair. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)

Daring beauty, wild, lovely bacchante, with black, beaming eyes, tempt us not with that bright flame to destruction! ❋ Various (N/A)

Molly driving a car in Jamaica will be like Pavlova doing a bacchante on the point of a needle! ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)

“In very truth, ” thought Grainier, “it is a salamander—a nymph—’tis a goddess—a bacchante of Mount Mæ nalus! ❋ Unknown (1917)

I perceived her, under the heavy procession of his words, a figure of astounding romance, an adventuress incomparable, a Polynesian bacchante. ❋ Various (1915)

The moon's glow was like one luminous ghost: and buttercup, daisy, snowdrop, primrose gathered Margaret, vagrant, flighty, light to the winds that wafted her as fluff, and tossed them suddenly aloft, and back they came to be tangled in her bare hair; and now she was a tipsy bacchante, singing: ❋ Unknown (1906)

Her eyes a-kindle, her hair flying, she showed you a bewitching bacchante; then, all of a sudden, her face expressed grief, and you saw a magnificent repentant Magdalen. ❋ Unknown (1903)

I then painted Mme. Harte as a bacchante reclining by the edge of the sea, holding a goblet in her hand. ❋ Unknown (1903)

She had a great quantity of fine chestnut hair, sufficient to cover her entirely, and thus, as a bacchante with flying hair, she was admirable to behold. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Just as Boston, finding its bronze bacchante immodest, rejected the brazen hussey. ❋ Various (1904)

The water of the pool flowed, fresh and clear, from the wine skin of a bronze bacchante, hideously squat and fat and green with age, which with drunken eyes in a back-thrown head leered mysteriously down upon the water. ❋ Henry Oyen (1902)

No more does the fair religious postulant play the bacchante in flower-strewn palaces while naked Cupids crown the brimming cup and sandaled feet beat time on polished cedar floors to music that is the cry of brute passion in the blood -- kneeling in the cold gray dawn upon the stones she clasps a marble cross. ❋ Unknown (1898)

If youth and beauty would but come back to her, she would recklessly cast off all her veils, would stand in the middle of the studio as arrogantly as a bacchante, crying, ❋ Vicente Blasco Ib����ez (1897)

Her face was red and her lips swollen; she looked like a very bacchante of sorrow, and as if she had been on some mad orgy of grief. ❋ Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1891)

It was certainly not the custom for a hostess, and a Princess to boot, to dance like a wild bacchante before a crowd of her invited guests, yet, as Dr. Dean blandly observed, -- ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

[Shiv] was in this, just as he was in everything else, a remnant of a [past] age; Shiv had [merely] been transformed into a bacchante! ❋ Football69 (2018)