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  • Bacchus and the Maenads — his fierce, madcap girls — and Silenus were still with them.†   (source)
  • "This is a proper show!" boomed the voice of Bacchus.†   (source)
  • "Here you are, mother," said Bacchus, dipping a pitcher in the cottage well and handing it to her.†   (source)
  • Bacchus said something about breaking through.†   (source)
  • Bacchus picked his way to the bottom and looked up at the crowd.†   (source)
  • "I don't know what you're talking about," Bacchus snapped.†   (source)
  • "Lord Bacchus!" she interrupted, slipping off Tempest's back.†   (source)
  • Bacchus chose the more entertaining option.†   (source)
  • Bacchus making it into a game was something else.†   (source)
  • Piper couldn't shake the feeling that Bacchus was meant to help them.†   (source)
  • Bacchus stepped forward, and the giants stumbled back.†   (source)
  • Bacchus glared at her, and Piper realized she'd chosen her words poorly.†   (source)
  • I'm quite tall enough to destroy you, Bacchus!†   (source)
  • Although that's incredibly useful advice, Lord Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Piper remembered their meeting with Bacchus in Kansas—another god who used to be a demigod.†   (source)
  • Bacchus winced and pressed his hands to his temples.†   (source)
  • Bacchus said something about the parking lot in back?†   (source)
  • Bacchus swung his staff through the air, though his potbelly almost threw him off balance.†   (source)
  • "You might try the parking lot behind the Emmanuel Building," Bacchus said.†   (source)
  • "Lord Bacchus," she said, trying to control the nervousness in her voice.†   (source)
  • She also felt sure they could never defeat the giants without Bacchus's help.†   (source)
  • Then Bacchus mentioned salt water, and it rang a bell.†   (source)
  • Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don't-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Mr. D—Bacchus— Ugh, do I have to call him Mr. B now?†   (source)
  • Lord Bacchus, are we going to kill these giants or what?†   (source)
  • "Well, I certainly hope so," Bacchus said.†   (source)
  • Bacchus told us we should seek out ...what was his name?†   (source)
  • Bacchus said some things that don't—" "Bacchus?"†   (source)
  • If Bacchus likes it, the ship should vanish.†   (source)
  • "It's Bacchus, actually, my old friend," said the god.†   (source)
  • And you say Bacchus killed these guys with a pinecone on a stick?†   (source)
  • Bacchus looked on with an amused smile, munching from a bag of Doritos.†   (source)
  • Bacchus tapped the giant on the nose, and Ephialtes crumbled to ashes.†   (source)
  • At Bacchus's right crouched a satyr, offering up Doritos and grapes.†   (source)
  • It's Antipov, Lara's husband Strelnikov, scaring the wolves in the Shutma as Bacchus would say.†   (source)
  • Well now, you were asking if I'm that same blacksmith Bacchus.†   (source)
  • At the mention of Bacchus the travellers looked at each other in amazement.†   (source)
  • Bacchus was hanging around here this morning.†   (source)
  • "See the lookout up on the hill?" said Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Bacchus did as he was told, muttering: "Mother of God!†   (source)
  • Can this be the same Bacchus that Mother used to tell us about?†   (source)
  • Bring their things in, Bacchus, give the guests a hand.†   (source)
  • He's a son of Bacchus, the wine god.†   (source)
  • She had trained her mind to start all her dreams in her favorite place—the Garden of Bacchus on the tallest hill in New Rome.†   (source)
  • In addition to a columned manor house commanding one ridge, there were all the requisite lakes and waterfalls, bridges and architectural niceties—a Temple of Victory, Temple of Venus, Temple of Bacchus, a faux Gothic temple—everything romantic in spirit.†   (source)
  • She ran to the fountain of Bacchus and gripped the rim of the basin, staring desperately into the water.†   (source)
  • Bacchus and his people splashed forward into the shallow water, and a minute later the most curious things began happening.†   (source)
  • And Dakota ...Reyna couldn't believe the son of Bacchus, the most good-natured of officers, would side with Octavian.†   (source)
  • Then the whole party moved off Aslan leading, Bacchus and his Maenads leaping, rushing, and turning somersaults, the beasts frisking round them, and Silenus and his donkey bringing up the rear.†   (source)
  • But as soon as their mean little faces looked out, Bacchus gave a great cry of Euan, euoi-oi-oi-of and the boys all began howling with fright and trampling one another down to get out of the door and jumping out of the windows.†   (source)
  • When Lucy saw Clodsley Shovel and his moles scuffling up the turf in various places (which Bacchus had pointed out to them) and realized that the trees were going to eat earth it gave her rather a shudder.†   (source)
  • "Bacchus," said Aslan.†   (source)
  • Then Bacchus and Silenus and the Maenads began a dance, far wilder than the dance of the trees; not merely a dance for fun and beauty (though it was that too) but a magic dance of plenty, and where their hands touched, and where their feet fell, the feast came into existence sides of roasted meat that filled the grove with delicious smell, and wheaten cakes and oaten cakes, honey and many-coloured sugars and cream as thick as porridge and as smooth as still water, peaches, nectarines, pomegranates, pears, grapes, strawberries, raspberries pyramids and cataracts of fruit.†   (source)
  • She remembered the maenads, the crazed followers of Bacchus, who would tear up nonbelievers with their bare hands.†   (source)
  • The ghosts cheered and threw spectral confetti as Bacchus strode around the stadium with his arms raised triumphantly, exulting in the worship.†   (source)
  • "Bacchus isn't so bad," Jason said.†   (source)
  • Bacchus said you might know what your mom Gaea is up to, and these twin giant brothers of yours—Ephialtes and Otis.†   (source)
  • They quickly decided that their best lead for finding Annabeth was the cryptic advice Bacchus had provided: the Emmanuel Building, whatever that was.†   (source)
  • Bacchus walked to the edge of the lake.†   (source)
  • A cold feeling ...Annabeth and Leo had both described a cold feeling.... "Bacchus is right," she said.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Bacchus said, "although with demigod parties of five or more the gratuity is included, so that wasn't necessary."†   (source)
  • Bacchus waved his hand dismissively.†   (source)
  • Bacchus climbed out of the lake and strutted over to Ephialtes, who was still lying spread-eagled, overcooked and smoking.†   (source)
  • Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin.†   (source)
  • Then Bacchus returned to being Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Percy told her about rescuing Nico, the appearance of Bacchus, and the fight with the twins in the Colosseum.†   (source)
  • Bacchus thought I would help you?†   (source)
  • In the middle of the terrace stood a statue of Bacchus in a sort of ballet position, wearing nothing but a loincloth, his cheeks puffed out and lips pursed, spouting water into a fountain.†   (source)
  • Lord Bacchus, do you remember me?†   (source)
  • They gathered around the dining table, and Piper explained what had happened at TOPEKA 32—their conversation with Bacchus, the trap sprung by Gaea, the eidolons that had possessed the boys.†   (source)
  • "No, Lord Bacchus," Jason said.†   (source)
  • Bacchus might be able to help.†   (source)
  • She almost asked Percy to do the honors with Riptide, but before she could, he said, "Bacchus mentioned something about my voyage being harder than I expected.†   (source)
  • In the huge Colosseum, with thousands of cheering ghosts, the god Bacchus staring down at him, and the two twelve-foot giants looming over him, Percy felt as small and insignificant as a bug.†   (source)
  • Again, Bacchus raised his thyrsus.†   (source)
  • Percy glanced up at Bacchus, deciding what final curse he would hurl at the useless wine god, when he saw a shape in the sky above the Colosseum—a large dark oval descending rapidly.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if the vision of Bacchus offering her a silver goblet was false, maybe the other visions didn't have to come true either—especially the one of her, Percy, and Jason drowning.†   (source)
  • He had killed the twin giants once before, but he would only join the fight if he got an impossible tribute, and the idea of giving Bacchus any kind of tribute made Percy want to gag himself with a Monster Donut.†   (source)
  • "Never mind," Bacchus said.†   (source)
  • Bacchus sounded unimpressed.†   (source)
  • Bacchus raised an eyebrow.†   (source)
  • "Well?" he yelled at Bacchus.†   (source)
  • "Bacchus," Frank corrected.†   (source)
  • Bacchus, where did you—?†   (source)
  • He looked the same as he had in Kansas, but Percy still couldn't get over the differences between Bacchus and his old not-so-much-of-a-friend Mr. D. Bacchus was meaner and leaner, with less of a potbelly.†   (source)
  • Bacchus tapped his thyrsus.†   (source)
  • Bacchus laughed.†   (source)
  • Or Mr. Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Or Bacchus—whatever.†   (source)
  • "Well," Bacchus said.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Bacchus said.†   (source)
  • Bacchus smiled lazily.†   (source)
  • "Indeed," Bacchus agreed.†   (source)
  • It's Bacchus, please.†   (source)
  • "Whatever," Bacchus said.†   (source)
  • What did Bacchus say?†   (source)
  • Bacchus frowned.†   (source)
  • Bacchus shrugged.†   (source)
  • Or Lord Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Sounds like Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Lord Bacchus, wait!†   (source)
  • He told about the midnight dances and how the Nymphs who lived in the wells and the Dryads who lived in the trees came out to dance with the Fauns; about long hunting parties after the milk-white stag who could give you wishes if you caught him; about feasting and treasure-seeking with the wild Red Dwarfs in deep mines and caverns far beneath the forest floor; and then about summer when the woods were green and old Silenus on his fat donkey would come to visit them, and sometimes Bacchus himself, and then the streams would run with wine instead of water and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.†   (source)
  • Earlier, while it was still light, the doctor had noticed the view from it over the gully and the plain beyond, which they had crossed with Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, into this peaceful setting Bacchus rolled up smartly with a loud clatter of cart wheels over the cobbles, bringing his surprise.†   (source)
  • Your Bacchus-he was called Postanogov, Postanogov Iron-Belly-he went to his grave more than fifty years ago.†   (source)
  • A real bogeyman, black as the devil, with a beard growing up to his eyebrows, and calls himself Bacchus!†   (source)
  • The situation could not have been plainer, whatever might have been said, not only to those directly involved but also to Sashenka, Niusha, and Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Yurii Andreievich listened spellbound, just as, when he first arrived in Siberia from European Russia, he had listened to the florid chatter of the driver, Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Bacchus or Lupus or Faustus.†   (source)
  • But to return to Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Bacchus Iron-Belly.†   (source)
  • Is he the same Bacchus?†   (source)
  • 'By Bacchus!' he said at last, as if he were forced to the admission, 'I have sometimes had a thought of going to Paris, and perhaps to England.'†   (source)
    Bacchus = Roman mythology:  god of wine
  • 'By Bacchus, yes, sir!†   (source)
  • He said it was true and by the corpse of Bacchus we would test whether it was true or not.†   (source)
  • "Go with Bacchus," Robert Jordan said in Spanish.†   (source)
  • When their laughter had died down, Eliza said: "And this—as the fellow says—is Uncle Bacchus."†   (source)
  • I said let the best man win, Bacchus barred, and the major started us with red wine in mugs.†   (source)
  • "Yes, sir," said Bacchus beaming, "as large as life an' twice as sassy."†   (source)
  • The Greeks tell of King Midas, who had the luck to win from Bacchus the offer of whatsoever boon he might desire.†   (source)
  • What had she done with it, Mrs. Ramsay wondered, for Rose's arrangement of the grapes and pears, of the horny pink-lined shell, of the bananas, made her think of a trophy fetched from the bottom of the sea, of Neptune's banquet, of the bunch that hangs with vine leaves over the shoulder of Bacchus (in some picture), among the leopard skins and the torches lolloping red and gold...Thus brought up suddenly into the light it seemed possessed of great size and depth, was like a world in which one could take one's staff and climb hills, she thought, and go down into valleys, and to her pleasure (for it brought them into sympathy momentarily) sh†   (source)
  • The present chieftain of the tribe was Eliza's father, the brother of the prophet Bacchus, Major Thomas Pentland.†   (source)
  • Who is Bacchus?†   (source)
  • Bassi said no that was no test because he had already drunk twice as much as I. I said that was a foul lie and, Bacchus or no Bacchus, Fillipo Vincenza Bassi or Bassi Fillippo Vicenza had never touched a drop all evening and what was his name anyway?†   (source)
  • That's Bacchus Pentland," he said.†   (source)
  • Not Bacchus, I said.†   (source)
  • Bacchus looked up benevolently from a whittled stick, and Will, glancing up from his stubby nails which he was paring as usual, greeted the visitor with a birdlike nod and wink.†   (source)
  • Yes, Bacchus, he said.†   (source)
  • While Bacchus, who never rose above the rank of Corporal, was blistering his hard hands at Shiloh, the Major, as commander of two companies of Home Volunteers, was guarding the stronghold of the native hills.†   (source)
  • "Bacchus," I said.†   (source)
  • He used to have a predilection for Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Then addressing the limp figure, Messala said, amidst profound silence, "O Bacchus!†   (source)
  • Even drunken Bacchus, Hans Castorp thought, had propped himself on his exuberant companions without losing anything of his divinity, and ultimately it depended on who was drunk—a personality or a tinker.†   (source)
  • Students, citizens, soldiers, girls and matrons whirled light-heartedly before the inn with the figure of Bacchus for a sign.†   (source)
  • They were in the main reduced copies of ancient marbles, and comprised divinities of a very different character from those the girl was accustomed to see portrayed, among them being a Venus of standard pattern, a Diana, and, of the other sex, Apollo, Bacchus, and Mars.†   (source)
  • Conrade read the letter, which was in these words: "Aymer, by divine grace, Prior of the Cistertian house of Saint Mary's of Jorvaulx, to Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, a Knight of the holy Order of the Temple, wisheth health, with the bounties of King Bacchus and of my Lady Venus.†   (source)
  • In short, in spite of the kind and generous behaviour of Marfa Petrovna, Mr. Svidrigailov's wife, and all the rest of the household, Dounia had a very hard time, especially when Mr. Svidrigailov, relapsing into his old regimental habits, was under the influence of Bacchus.†   (source)
  • Mars, Bacchus, Apollo virorum, hey?†   (source)
  • "By Bacchus!" says one of them, drawing his clenched hand to his shoulder, "their skulls are not thicker than eggshells."†   (source)
  • Raphael's face was found boldly executed on the underside of the moulding board, and Bacchus on the head of a beer barrel.†   (source)
  • It is painted with the story of Bacchus and Ariadne, and the table works in and out of the room by means of a windlass, so that the company was served without any intervention of domestics.†   (source)
  • "Men of the Tiber," he said, in a clear voice, "let us turn this waiting for our chief into a feast of Bacchus.†   (source)
  • If these our countrymen, looking for fortune, have not purses, by the Syrian Bacchus, I will see if they are not better blessed with stomachs!†   (source)
  • "Ah!" cries the young prince, throwing himself on the divan at Messala's feet, "Ah, by Bacchus, I am tired!"†   (source)
  • On the divan also lie sleepers stretched at ease; whether they were overcome by the heat and fatigue of the sultry day or by Bacchus we will not pause to inquire.†   (source)
  • "By the love-locks of Bacchus, have I not a bruised shoulder to help me keep it in mind?" and he seconded the words with a shrug that submerged his ears.†   (source)
  • Then he stopped to look at a bull of mighty girth, and snowy white, covered with vines freshly cut, and bearing on its broad back a naked child in a basket, the image of a young Bacchus, squeezing the juice of ripened berries into a goblet, and drinking with libational formulas.†   (source)
  • "Bacchus!" yelled a satirist.†   (source)
  • Evening was hardly come upon Antioch, when the Omphalus, nearly in the centre of the city, became a troubled fountain from which in every direction, but chiefly down to the Nymphaeum and east and west along the Colonnade of Herod, flowed currents of people, for the time given up to Bacchus and Apollo.†   (source)
  • Ah, by Bacchus!†   (source)
  • I see Christ eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of
    youths and old persons,
    I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd
    faithfully and long and then died,
    I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the
    beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus,
    I see Kneph, blooming, drest in blue, with the crown of feathers on
    his head,
    I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people
    Do not weep for me,
    This is not my true country, I have lived banish'd from my true
    country, I now go back there,
    I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.†   (source)
  • Thou, Bacchus, god of joys and friendly cheer, And gracious Juno, both be present here!†   (source)
  • Bacchus the wine them skinked* all about.†   (source)
  • Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!†   (source)
  • She feign'd the rites of Bacchus; cried aloud, And to the buxom god the virgin vow'd.†   (source)
  • O Bacchus, Bacchus, blessed be thy name,
    That so canst turnen earnest into game!†   (source)
  • O Bacchus!" thus began the song; And "Evoe!" answer'd all the female throng.†   (source)
  • Thee too I call with golden-snooded hair, Whose name our land doth bear, Bacchus to whom thy Maenads Evoe shout; Come with thy bright torch, rout, Blithe god whom we adore, The god whom gods abhor.†   (source)
  • not onely the shapes, some of Men, some of Beasts, some of Monsters; but also the Faculties, and Passions of men and beasts; as Sense, Speech, Sex, Lust, Generation, (and this not onely by mixing one with another, to propagate the kind of Gods; but also by mixing with men, and women, to beget mongrill Gods, and but inmates of Heaven, as Bacchus, Hercules, and others;) besides, Anger, Revenge, and other passions of living creatures, and the actions proceeding from them, as Fraud, Theft, Adultery, Sodomie, and any vice that may be taken for an effect of Power, or a cause of Pleasure; and all such Vices, as amongst men are taken to be against Law, rather than against Honour.†   (source)
  • After her father had departed from life, and the city of Bacchus had become enslaved, long while she wandered through the world.†   (source)
  • But drive far off the barbarous dissonance
    Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race
    Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard
    In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears
    To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned
    Both harp and voice; nor could the Muse defend
    Her son.†   (source)
  • It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd: Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails: Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste.†   (source)
  • Bacchus, shaker of the ground!†   (source)
  • Of did Loxias beget thee, for he haunts the upland wold; Or Cyllene's lord, or Bacchus, dweller on the hilltops cold?†   (source)
  • cost Ceres all that pain
    To seek her through the world; nor that sweet grove
    Of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspired
    Castalian spring, might with this Paradise
    Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle
    Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham,
    Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove,
    Hid Amalthea, and her florid son
    Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye;
    Nor where Abassin kings their issue guard,
    Mount Amara, though this by some supposed
    True Paradise under the Ethiop line
    By Nilus' head, enclosed with shining rock,
    A whole day's journey high, but wide remote
    From this Assyrian garden, where the Fiend
    Saw, undelighted, all delight, all kind
    Of livin†   (source)
  • 1) Thus Dryas' child, the rash Edonian King, For words of high disdain Did Bacchus to a rocky dungeon bring, To cool the madness of a fevered brain.†   (source)
  • Where Ismenus rolls his waters, Where the Dragon's teeth were sown, Where the Bacchanals thy daughters Round thee roam, There thy home; Thebes, O Bacchus, is thine own.†   (source)
  • Shamefast she was in maiden's shamefastness,
    Constant in heart, and ever *in business* *diligent, eager*
    To drive her out of idle sluggardy:
    Bacchus had of her mouth right no mast'ry.†   (source)
  • Inspir'd with hope, the project they pursue; On ev'ry altar sacrifice renew: A chosen ewe of two years old they pay To Ceres, Bacchus, and the God of Day; Preferring Juno's pow'r, for Juno ties The nuptial knot and makes the marriage joys.†   (source)
  • Then they, whose mothers, frantic with their fear, In woods and wilds the flags of Bacchus bear, And lead his dances with dishevel'd hair, Increase the clamor, and the war demand, (Such was Amata's interest in the land,) Against the public sanctions of the peace, Against all omens of their ill success.†   (source)
  • Aeneas then advanc'd amidst the train, By thousands follow'd thro' the flow'ry plain, To great Anchises' tomb; which when he found, He pour'd to Bacchus, on the hallow'd ground, Two bowls of sparkling wine, of milk two more, And two (from offer'd bulls) of purple gore, With roses then the sepulcher he strow'd And thus his father's ghost bespoke aloud: "Hail, O ye holy manes!†   (source)
  • Nor Hercules more lands or labors knew, Not tho' the brazen-footed hind he slew, Freed Erymanthus from the foaming boar, And dipp'd his arrows in Lernaean gore; Nor Bacchus, turning from his Indian war, By tigers drawn triumphant in his car, From Nisus' top descending on the plains, With curling vines around his purple reins.†   (source)
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