But she adores him; she loves him with that mad, bacchantic ardor which the Roman empress Julia felt for the gladiators, whose magnificent proportions she admired at the circus.
"Berlin and Sans-Souci"
Louise Muhlbach
All through the vernal afternoon My other neighbour's children skate A wild bacchantic rigadoon On rollers; nor does it abate Till dark; and then his babies cry What time I fain would versify.
"Tobogganing On Parnassus"
Franklin P. Adams
It was equally incongruous and slightly bacchantic.
"Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories"
Bret Harte