bacchante

IPA: bˈækɪnt

Examples of "bacchante" in Sentences

The satyrs and the Bacchantes fell down senseless.
Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante.
Molly driving a car in Jamaica will be like Pavlova doing a bacchante on the point of a needle!
In very truth, thought Grainier, it is a salamandera nymphtis a goddessa bacchante of Mount Mæ nalus!
Wherever she came there was laughter among the ladies, of the high hysteric bacchante kind, not true mirth, but
Daring beauty, wild, lovely bacchante, with black, beaming eyes, tempt us not with that bright flame to destruction!
Hung with flowers, she looked like a bacchante, with one beautiful arm and shoulder showing bare through her mantle of tumbled hair.
I perceived her, under the heavy procession of his words, a figure of astounding romance, an adventuress incomparable, a Polynesian 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.