Bacchante

The face was just perfect now: the head a little inclined, the leaves in the glossy hair, no more exact image of the idea the word Bacchante always formed in my mind could be imagined.

Five Nights Victoria Cross 1910

This was met by a counter taunt from us, "'Iron Duke' can do 'Bacchante' -- 200 dollars."

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

He owned a bar in the Subura called the Bacchante, and it had been agreed that Ranunculus would go to see him that very night, give him the name of the candidate for whom the bribed electors were to vote, and at the same time hand over the money to one of the sequestris, who was trusted by them both.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

He owned a bar in the Subura called the Bacchante, and it had been agreed that Ranunculus would go to see him that very night, give him the name of the candidate for whom the bribed electors were to vote, and at the same time hand over the money to one of the sequestris, who was trusted by them both.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

Viewed thus in outline, her head in repose had something of the delicacy of a Tanagra figure, while to the eye of a connoisseur the magnificent yet girlish torso might have recalled a Bacchante by Skopas.

Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 Various 1898

But the "Bacchante" wanted not our two hundred dollars.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

"Bacchante," which has since found refuge in the Metropolitan Museum at

American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

"Bacchante," it would not have served for a moment for the "Soul of the Wood."

Five Nights Victoria Cross 1910

One afternoon she was posing as usual, and I was painting, deeply absorbed, on the picture of the "Bacchante" when her voice suddenly disturbed me.

Five Nights Victoria Cross 1910

And the Typhanie Monique who fronts the BMC is a far cry from her slinky jazz twin; she's a Bacchante in blue jeans, a thoroughly modern maenad.

Robert Rodi: Booty (Re)Call With Typhanie Monique 2009