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Bacchus
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    Raphael's face was found boldly executed on the underside of the moulding board, and Bacchus on the head of a beer barrel.†  (source)
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    Bacchus was hanging around here this morning.†  (source)
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    The most crudely touched-up photographs were circulated, depicting him dressed as Bacchus with a garland of grapes around his head, cavorting with opulent matrons and athletes of his own sex in a perpetual orgy.†  (source)
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    "Go with Bacchus," Robert Jordan said in Spanish.†  (source)
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    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)
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    When their laughter had died down, Eliza said: "And this—as the fellow says—is Uncle Bacchus."†  (source)
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    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) she saw that Augustus too feasted his eyes on the same†  (source)
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    The Greeks tell of King Midas, who had the luck to win from Bacchus the offer of whatsoever boon he might desire.†  (source)
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    He used to have a predilection for Bacchus.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Students, citizens, soldiers, girls and matrons whirled light-heartedly before the inn with the figure of Bacchus for a sign.†  (source)
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    Mars, Bacchus, Apollo virorum, hey?†  (source)
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    "By Bacchus!" says one of them, drawing his clenched hand to his shoulder, "their skulls are not thicker than eggshells."†  (source)
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