Usage examples for bacchus
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If he ever did he would marry and settle down as a highly respectable member of society, and become an M. P. and the owner of a winner of the Derby; but until then he would sigh away his tired life at the feet of beauty, Bacchus, or chance. – What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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That the young people of both sexes, often left alone together till late in the night, danced more perhaps than now- a- days; that the gentlemen sometimes sacrificed largely to Bacchus; and that all, after their fashion, enjoyed themselves right well, may easily be understood. – Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag