| 单词 | saturnalia |
| 例句 | It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers’ club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In Time magazine, the critic Robert Hughes called the 1993 Biennial “a saturnalia of political correctness.” Klaus Kertess Dies at 76; Curator and Gallerist Gave Major Artists a Start 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z It has been a saturnalia of incompetence from a nation which most observers, including many military experts, had believed would roll over Ukraine in a couple of weeks. No, dictatorships are not more "efficient": See how Putin and Xi have wrecked their countries 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z The riot may have been a saturnalia of stupid, but we need to take it seriously. "We regret to inform you" that Donald Trump is cashing in on white America's death wish 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z So when President Trump arrives in this snowy, mountaintop resort where financial titans mingle with heads of state in an annual saturnalia of capitalism, it may feel like a moment of vindication. In Davos, a Club Trump Has Revered and Resented Finally Opens Its Doors 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The ancients knew that the saturnalia reminded everyone, just once a year, what really happens – hello, Steve Bannon? – when government shuts down and the lights go out. Praise Philip, the Prince of Misrule | James Hawes 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z I am going to the city tomorrow to see King Pang beat himself in his twenty-fifth saturnalia of fire. The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z The bishops of Albi were especially active and fortunate in this saturnalia of plunder. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z In all this saturnalia of blood, it is a relief to find something in lighter vein, and in this case it is furnished by two Irishmen, Meagher and Mitchell. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z The men stripped to the waist, wearing only “duck” unmentionables, prepared, immediately after breakfast, for the saturnalia of the day—a day when the ship was en carnival, and discipline relaxed. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Was there ever known such a whimsical, harmless, odd saturnalia as Naples presented during those extraordinary days? Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z How is it that this Independence Day saturnalia has been let to grow into such enormous proportions? The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z The midnight mass on "Christmas eve," is abused in all catholic countries, I believe, as a kind of saturnalia of gallantry. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z In the horrid saturnalia of pillage, destruction and rapine many a peaceful citizen was drawn into the vortex. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z It was not a retreat, not a flight; it was a riot, a horrible saturnalia of smoke and fire and awful sound. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z What was the object of the saturnalia in the sacred precincts of the Assembly? The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z The horrors of these saturnalia of bloodshed were attributable not to a love of cruelty but to filial piety. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z One cannot help wondering who first conceived the idea of these horrid saturnalia. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z France will ere long require every soldier to defend her own frontiers; the saturnalia of blood in which she is indulging will cause her to be regarded as the common enemy of Europe. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z On the opening of the goods, a saturnalia ensued, and the times were lively. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z This saturnalia is held on the eighth of the month instead of the first, because the eighth is the festival of the apparition of St. Michael, who is represented in the Town Arms. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z It was a midsummer saturnalia of strawberries and acacia flowers, gone mad with excessive mint julep. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Many see the danger of a social or political cataclysm resulting from the saturnalia of degeneracy, disease, and crime that is being bred by tenement life and congested cities. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Indeed, for some six years the island presented a saturnalia of massacre, attended with indescribable tortures. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z For the first year or two of Burketown’s existence, a saturnalia of a most original and determined fashion set in. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z What had been a joyous bacchanal had degenerated into a horrid saturnalia. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Lift but thine eyes to where God's finger glows 2640 In fiery warning on thy festal wall, Drowning in dread the voice of revelry, Thy saturnalia's ribald shout and song. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z Russia prepared her saturnalias to celebrate a definite victory. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z This saturnalia reigned for four days, and would soon have culminated—at least, so the police declared—in a general sack of the city by the congregated ruffians. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The bald iron-reddened forehead of the Banks, forever ferocious over man's vandalism, glared as angrily upon autumn's saturnalia as it had upon spring's tender eagerness. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z It was only six o'clock, but the last gleam of light had died away behind the western chimney-tops; and with the darkness and notwithstanding the fog, a cheerful saturnalia had begun. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z It was a moonless night, which made things all the better for such a saturnalia. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z She had conceived the bold idea of resuscitating, upon a large scale, an amusement which, in Paris, has long since degenerated into vulgar license and drunken saturnalia. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z But the New Year was a modest kind of saturnalia, kept very much as the Calvinistic Dutch settlers of New York kept it in the days of the Dutch governors. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z A very saturnalia of riot and rapine followed the capture of Bristol. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z We had not known, previously to our arrival, that the second and third of October were the grand saturnalia of the inhabitants of Liskeard and neighborhood, the annual honey fair, or St. Matthew’s Fair. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The National Assembly, intimidated, defenseless, surrounded by these saturnalia of military force and placing little reliance in the National Guard of Versailles, hardly dared show its fears. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Time was when the village used to indulge in a week’s saturnalia, but the march of progress had affected rural Yorkshire even so long ago as 1906. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z He called it “the saturnalia, or excess of faith.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Suddenly the whilom president of the grand saturnalia of the Wonder Club was observed to start violently. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z The eighth of May in Helston is Flora or Furry Day, and is possibly a relic of the old May Day saturnalia. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z The Puritanism of the preceding century had crushed the Church of England; and the restoration of the monarchy had given the people a saturnalia. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 Amongst the dissipated revellers who figured in this saturnalia, the Chourineur remarked two couples who obtained the most overwhelming applause, from the revolting grossness of their attitudes, their gesticulations, and their language. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 The morning following the saturnalia was cold and bleak. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I But don't be deceived, you have your supporters even here, in the midst of this saturnalia of hate. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop A General Election was a saturnalia of the most blackguard character. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself In the wild saturnalia that ensues, all the restraints of decency and habit are thrown on one side. The Night Side of London I was one with the rest of those dark warders, and I joined them in the saturnalia of horror until the scarred man spoke to us again. The Secret of Kralitz Public opinion was not yet ripe for saturnalia. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty During the last months of that year an immense saturnalia was on foot. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium Thus grew a saturnalia of spoils and corruption which culminated in the assassination of a president. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The saturnalia that succeeded the castaway had come to a close. The Boy Slaves Arthur much approved of the specimen he tasted; and without doubt the sugar-making was a sweetmeat saturnalia for all the 'papooses' in the camp. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement A good breakfast inside of him, the early morning sun brightening the scene before him, not even combined could they dispel any of Bennington's bitter anger at the memory of last night's saturnalia. Take the Reason Prisoner Here was a saturnalia of crime condensed into the space of a few hours. The Monk of Hambleton Along with the drinking of certain vegetable decoctions, dancing formed an important part of the witches' saturnalia during the medieval period. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development There were voices of men, women, and children,—cries and calls of quadrupeds,—each according to its own kind, all mingled together in what might have been taken for some nocturnal saturnalia of the Desert. The Boy Slaves It is said that American camp-meetings often wound up in a saturnalia. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) That frightful saturnalia of superstition was the Devil's heyday. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) There are times, however, when even a savage forgets himself, and one spring day the saturnalia in Moossy's room reached an historical height. Young Barbarians Terrible infants! there they all were in a complete saturnalia, the door of the parlour half open all the time, and no sound of Nettie's restraining voice. The Doctor's Family Making his way by this dizzy saturnalia and avoiding the pranks of animated hosiery and the more ponderous frolics of over-alls, sheets and tablecloths, Saint-Prosper entered the kitchen. The Strollers For these bloody saturnalia the wedding was consecrated by the Iro-Roman priesthood. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 In the summer of this year, when the Constitution was proclaimed, and the country was rioting in the saturnalia of Freedom and Equality, my sorrow was keener, deeper than ever. The Book of Khalid New York has five saturnalia every year: New Year's Night, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Election Night, and Thanksgiving, and not the least of these is Election Night. Imaginary Interviews The prognathous race require government also in their religious exercises, or they degenerate into fanatical saturnalia. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject “Amok!” sprang from every man’s lips, while women and children, and those too aged to take part in the wild saturnalia of blood that was to follow, scattered like doves before a hawk. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines Altogether, he presented an appearance of health, intelligence, and good humour, that rejoiced one to look upon in that sordid, selfish and eventually ruinous saturnalia of railway speculation. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson He was intending to see the couple into the cab and then go quietly away, for he was determined to avoid the loathsome saturnalia with which his colleagues were certain to signalize the débâcle. Anthony Lyveden When writing of Helston it is customary to say a great deal about its Flora, or Furry Day, the 8th of May—a relic of old Maytide saturnalia. The Cornwall Coast A year never passes in which several murders are not committed, in revenge for offences perpetrated during the saturnalia of the carnival. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests If the errors of the nobility had been borne hitherto, now began the saturnalia of the populace, and they were far more bloody and horrible than those of the nobles. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 Their pay-nights were often a saturnalia of riot and disorder, dreaded by the inhabitants of the villages along the line of works. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson But for the present they were absolute, and the saturnalia of blood went on. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality At length the saturnalia of crime came to an end. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality J. T. Smith says: "Many a saturnalia did those walls witness in the days of his hot youth." The Strand District The Fascination of London It became a saturnalia and jubilee for the long, half-starved slaves, men and women. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan The pay-night was a fortnightly saturnalia, in which the pitman’s character was fully brought out, especially when the “yel” was good. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson During these unpleasant saturnalia, mutual explanations are exchanged between Eleparu and the two young men of his former brief but memorable acquaintance. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure While the scuttlers are shirking their work in the Condor’s hold, and simultaneous with the abduction on deck, a scene is transpiring in her cabin, which might be likened to a saturnalia of demons. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The sequel may be left untold, but truly the saturnalia of ancient Rome grow dim before the spectacle of the ceremonies established by Rasputin. Modern Saints and Seers The saturnalia that succeeded the capture of the castaway had come to a close. The Boy Slaves The reader must know that throughout Virginia the Christmas week, from the day after Christmas until the day after New-Year, is the negroes' saturnalia! Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' The sacea were a festival at Babylon similar to the saturnalia. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals While the bulk of the Orientals was still beyond the Himalayas and the Gobi, Europe indulged in a wild saturnalia to celebrate its own doom. Greener Than You Think One batch of young men left the village—and there was a lugubrious sort of saturnalia, men and women alike got rather drunk, the young men left amid howls of lamentation and shrieks of distress. The Lost Girl There were voices of men, women and children, cries and calls of quadrupeds, each according to its own kind, all mingled together in what might have been taken for some nocturnal saturnalia of the desert. The Boy Slaves The saturnalia commenced on Christmas evening, at the Humboldt, which, on that very day, had passed into the hands of new proprietors. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 A scene of red carnage, resembling a saturnalia of demons, doing murder! The Death Shot A Story Retold The occasion for the wrecking of the new playhouse was the Shrove Tuesday saturnalia of352 the London apprentices, who from time immemorial had employed this holiday to pull down houses of ill-fame in the suburbs. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration It would be as well if you took advantage of the present—er—saturnalia to escape. Witch-Doctors The appeal was spurned; and, in the face of its almost godlike gentleness, they who already gloried in their anticipated saturnalia of blood inhumanly and falsely stigmatized it as a declaration of war. Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis I never see her, but amid all the saturnalia she haunts me. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance The saturnalia is brought to a close, when all become so intoxicated they can neither tell story nor sing song. The Death Shot A Story Retold He stood off and contemplated them from a greater distance—and having, in his madman's saturnalia, burned out even the augmented forces of his fever, a feeling of weakness overcame him. The Tyranny of Weakness From the saturnalia in progress outside came another swirl of sound seeming to lap mockingly against the motionless figure of zu Pfeiffer silhouetted against a green sky; and above him towered the idol leaning sideways. Witch-Doctors The spectators had hitherto sat quiet; they at length rose, and were, I saw, apparently about to join in the saturnalia. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley The rich and the poor came together to enjoy the saturnalia in honor of the most blessed Saint Augustine. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited They were caught in the midst of their saturnalia of ridicule by Kate, who promptly exploded at their uncouth, dumb merriment. The Madigans The church of God itself was not spared during the saturnalia of lust and violence. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Now and again the thrumming, chanting and the shrilling of the saturnalia without rose into discordant yells like a gust of wind whipping tree-tops into fury. Witch-Doctors Next flared Charles Satyr’s saturnalia Of lady nymphs. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 He dreamed of Vienna as one continual debauch, one never-ceasing saturnalia, an eternal tournament of perfumed hilarities. Europe After 8:15 At times it became a saturnalia of extravagant action, and it frequently ended in a free fight, when the Rose and the Lily hinted too openly at the Recluse's incurable tendency to sing off key. The Madigans It was a hideous saturnalia, and deafened by the brass and percussion instruments I tried to get away, but my neighbors protested and I was forced to sit and suffer. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques You and I have passed through a saturnalia of horror, and you, less inured to horrors than I, have gone down. Brood of the Witch-Queen Even the Squaws, useful at the skinning, would also drink, and reel, and become lower than the animals they had slain to bring about all this saturnalia. The Outcasts Two or three traveling salesmen had been marooned here, but since the beginning of this saturnalia they had not been in evidence beyond the thresholds of their own rooms. A Pagan of the Hills Germany's onrush into heroic Belgium speedily resolved itself into a saturnalia that drenched the land with blood and roused the civilized world into resentful horror. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War I believe that among the masses of the people the Roman saturnalia still survive. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour By all laws of finance, by all signs and omens, a serious reaction from the saturnalia of the last few years was already over-due. The Danger Mark Almost all the pagans seem to have had a glimpse of the Divine unity over the multiplicity of their idols, and of the rays of the Divine holiness across the saturnalia of their Olympi. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism It was a mad saturnalia, half light, half shadow, amid which the fierce figures of the painted warriors passed and repassed in drunken frenzy, making night hideous with savage clamor and frenzied gesticulations. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country The slave has his saturnalia, and flouts his tyrant. The House by the Church-Yard The usual signs of approaching high saturnalia at Machecoul had not been wanting. The Black Douglas Perhaps, among that brilliant company, there was more than one plebeian, who, under cover of the masque, and employing the license common at these saturnalia, had intruded himself unbidden. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales Riot reigned unchecked, while the quiet, sleepy town of the afternoon blossomed under the flickering lights into a saturnalia of unlicensed pleasure, wherein the wages of sin were death. Bob Hampton of Placer Along the blazing stretch of Broadway from Thirtieth street to Columbus circle seethed and sounded the noisy saturnalia of New Year's Eve. Destiny Elections are no more the saturnalia they used to be in the good old times. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax In an instant the pawn-shop hall had been turned into a sulphurous saturnalia horrid to witness. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation In the saturnalia of ignoble personalPg 180 passions, of which the struggle for literary success, in old and crowded communities, offers so sad a spectacle, he never mingled. Matthew Arnold Moreover, no matter how often the Tarahumares indulge in such saturnalia, as soon as they recover their senses they are as decorous and solemn as ever. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan The marquis, however, while he permitted these saturnalia, invariably held aloof. The Grey Cloak The bloody saturnalia of Nizhni-Novgorod had, however, the beneficent effect that the Government, fearing the spread of the conflagration outside the Pale and even outside Jewry, took energetic steps to prevent all further excesses. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) The sudden madness and saturnalia of love into which I had these few weeks been plunged tapped, it seemed, my subliminal consciousness, maybe my memory of former incarnations.... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Almost all pagans seem to have had a glimpse of the divine unity over the multiplicity of their idols, and of the rays of the divine holiness across the saturnalia of their Olympi. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 I use the expression "abuse of better powers," because superior intellects devoted to philosophical pursuits and experimental sciences have remained strangers to these saturnalia. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 A regular Derby-day crowd having a religious saturnalia,—that is what it is. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 But the end of these saturnalia was at hand. Love Romances of the Aristocracy "I can't countenance any such saturnalia—" "Oh, Sam, do be quiet, dear—" She caught herself up with a blush, and everybody smiled. The Common Law It found us in lucid intervals conjuring up visions of a beer saturnalia when—alas! when the barrels were full again. The Siege of Kimberley The festival is a saturnalia, when all rules of duty and decorum are forgotten, and the utmost liberty is allowed to women and girls, who become like bacchantes. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism The sudden possession of vast wealth had intoxicated this people, lifting them from the level of the commonplace into a saturnalia of extravagance. The California Birthday Book Even on such a night of saturnalia as this of the Befana very little drunkenness is to be seen. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Strange to say, the populace evinced a perfect good-humour, and more resembled a mob met to celebrate a saturnalia than to subvert a monarchy. The Idler in France A profusion of refreshments, including barrels of orange punch, had been provided; and an attempt to serve the guests led to a veritable saturnalia. The Reign of Andrew Jackson A saturnalia of spending on the theory that the Allies will pay…. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated If followed up it will result in a saturnalia of crime in this community. Vandemark's Folly He eyed the present saturnalia with strong disapproval. The Wrong Twin They shout, they scream, they sing, they dance—the saturnalia of hell. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 It will almost certainly happen—it can almost certainly be prophesied—that in this saturnalia of sophistry there will at some time or other arise a sophist who desires to idealise cowardice. All Things Considered This law of chivalric private vengeance would justify a saturnalia of murder in every large city where gossip circulates in society. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 When the ensuing saturnalia was over, Billy finished the game of marbles which the judge had interrupted, and then set out to execute his commission. The House Behind the Cedars Then it began—the unnatural scene—the saturnalia of murder. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu They lodged men and women on the same floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debauchery—scenes such as never before had been witnessed in America. The Jungle The slaves of that saturnalia were not only painting the town red; they thought that they were painting the map red—that they were painting the world red. Alarms and Discursions Now, it would appear, you plan to prance among an interminable saturnalia of the domestic virtues. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking And a saturnalia of phrases whirled in his brain, demanding utterance. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Wherever his warriors went, the blood of men, women, and children was poured out without stay or stint; indeed he reigned like a visible Death, the presiding genius of a saturnalia of slaughter. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal "And therefore," continued he, "in doing this act I already feel more in sympathy with that spiritual saturnalia necessary to entire and obsolete reform." Roughing It, Part 4. The blazing store fronts, clothes shops, candy shops, drug-stores, Victrola shops, movie theatres invite with the promise of a saturnalia in suspense. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago It was a riotous saturnalia of flying feet and twinkling ankles. The Call of the Cumberlands From end to end it was a saturnalia of vice, a babel of sound, a glimpse of the inferno. Keith of the Border When the populace was allowed to come in they danced a saturnalia over his corpse. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters Senators, patricians, grave councillors, noble matrons were alike willingly or unwillingly obliged to join in the saturnalia that prevailed. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion All goes to sixes and sevens—an universal saturnalia seems to be proclaimed in my peaceful and orderly family. The Antiquary — Volume 02 But it is their God who is evil, as Proudhon said, that senseless and ludicrous God who delights in grotesque saturnalia, in ridiculous prayers, in shameful mummeries, in vows contrary to nature. The Grip of Desire Evidently the regular evening saturnalia had not yet begun, although there was already semblance of life about the numerous saloons, and an occasional shout punctuated the stillness. Keith of the Border We see clearly through it now, I tell you, that the saturnalia is wearing to its end. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) It is but right that a good mother should have an influence and a voice as to her daughter's marriage; but a woman who frequents the saturnalia of Nero has forfeited her mother's rights. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion It is to be hoped that the sermons are not too dry, that the tea saturnalias are neither too hot nor too wet, and that the collections have more sixpenny than threepenny pieces in them. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston From these and sundry narratives gleaned the following day, I was able to trace the later hours of this scandalous saturnalia. The Boss of Little Arcady The elders of this party retired from public sight, where, unoffended by the reigning saturnalia, they might dream in seclusion over their departed Utopia. The Book of Household Management Having been kept all the year within the limits which prudence assigns to well-regulated children, came at last the governor's proclamation, and a general saturnalia of dainties for the little ones. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 And even now one cannot recall without disgust that saturnalia of lies which was celebrated broadcast in all the bourgeois and coalition newspapers. From October to Brest-Litovsk The brainless fool fulfils himself in low ways—in alcoholic saturnalia, in salvation carnivals, in freethought hysterics, in political bombs. Without Prejudice It was Saturday—the saturnalia of schoolboys—and a day of rest to the venerable teacher. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky The Edinburgh lawyer is perhaps the most original portrait; nor are the saturnalia of the Saturday evenings described without humour. Guy Mannering — Complete The firmness of the commanding officers got the better of these saturnalia, by degrees. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville With nightfall the saturnalia of death would begin again with redoubled force. Caesar's Column But the chance for a grand saturnalia is best when Mr. Smith goes from home for a day or two. Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper One after another, attracted by the gayety and laughter, joined the group, until it numbered fifteen or twenty half-intoxicated young men and women, who lost themselves in a kind of wild saturnalia. Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend It was the day when an annual saturnalia of vulgar vice usurps and pollutes the open downs at Epsom. The British Barbarians The new republic of France celebrated her saturnalia in the following months, and unfurled her blood-stained standard over the nation. Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon The reader must know that throughout Virginia the Christmas week, from the day after Christmas until the day after New-year, is the negroes' saturnalia! Capitola the Madcap Now, the question is, be we in this? an' if so, what form the saturnalia takes?' Wolfville I need not describe to you some of our social saturnalias. Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend The whole ceremonies lasted several days, or even weeks, and formed a kind of saturnalia. The Golden Bough I will invite my friends to a last feast; a saturnalia in a city of famine; a banquet of death, spread by the jovial labours of Silenus and his fauns! Antonina The improbabilities of the saturnalia of the fifty courtesans pale before the almost utter impossibility of this narrative. The Life of Cesare Borgia A saturnalia of senatorial muckraking now laid bare the "oligarchy," as the small group of powerful veteran Senators who controlled the senatorial machinery was called. The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization That was the period of reconstruction, the saturnalia of misgovernment, the greatest possible hindrance to the progress of the freedmen.... The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states At the close of the saturnalia the wicked spirits were driven away. The Golden Bough That is of course the Catholic tradition—saturnalia that can end in a moment, like the crack of a whip. The Good Soldier It was in one of those half-frantic scenes of noise and revel, call it not gayety, which establish a heathen saturnalia in the midst of a Christian festival. Zanoni In the midst of this saturnalia wandered poor Tartarin, who had come that evening in search of forgetfulness and peace of heart. Tartarin De Tarascon For the class we speak of, class of "flunkies doing saturnalia below stairs," is numerous, is innumerable; and can well remunerate a "vocal flunky" that will serve their purposes on such an occasion!— History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01 Even the sober decorum of private families, which I must say is rigidly kept up at other times among my neighbors, is no proof against this saturnalia. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon And I remember that she seemed to describe afterwards a sort of saturnalia. The Good Soldier And if the dangerous comfort and self-flattery of modern England continues much longer there will be less democratic value in an English election than in a Roman saturnalia of slaves. A Miscellany of Men Yet if he remained, it would simply mean that his own and Hagthorpe's crews would join in the saturnalia and increase the hideousness of events now inevitable. Captain Blood It was into the thick of this saturnalia that the great Tartarin came straying one evening to find oblivion and heart's ease. Tartarin of Tarascon Reflect upon that sentence, and ask yourselves if the worst tyrants in their saturnalias ever gave more horribly burlesque reasons for their cruelties. Catherine De Medici I dare say that the miserable nature of her childhood, coming before the mixture of saturnalia and discipline that was her convent life, added something to her queernesses. The Good Soldier A few years before, their nightly encampments upon the historic Alamo Plaza, in the heart of the city, had been a carnival, a saturnalia that was renowned throughout the land. Roads of Destiny This, then, is the trapper's holiday, when he is all for fun and frolic, and ready for a saturnalia among the mountains. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West The saturnalia, subdued for a moment, threatened at times to renew itself. 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