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Here was the site of London's notorious May Fair, a drunken saturnalia from which the surrounding district now takes its name.
But it never has the visceral thrill of those individual flashbacks, and the life there is never obviously building to final climactic saturnalia of violence.
His first year there coincided with the saturnalia of the Restoration as Charles II arrived in England with his mistress Barbara Villiers, the future Duchess of Cleveland.
Play involves both spontaneous excitement and a saturnalia of sorts.
The effect is a come-as-you-are saturnalia of all-around, jolly rage and loathing.
Everything is exalted, from the nocturnal saturnalia of el tiento to the blinding sunlight of la Saeta.
The birth of Black, he proposes, is a generic saturnalia, and the point about a saturnalia is that we know order will be restored, that Banville will publish as Banville again.
We advanced into the main hall, already aroar with a saturnalia of sozzled gestures and gibbering.
Your analysis of the legality of this legislation under WTO rules and its relation to existing law in the United States amounts to nothing more than a saturnalia of thought.
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.
Borders are violated by hungering males and famished females, and the ordered animosities of the noyau give way to a saturnalia of sexual adventure.
The writer advocates the re-emergence of paganism especially the pre-Christian Roman Saturnalia.
It is a cheerful pagan rite that can be traced at least as far back as the Saturnalia and Kalends of Roman times.
Romans adorned their homes with evergreens during Saturnalia, a winter festival in honor of Saturnus, the god of agriculture.
Christmas actually evolved from the Roman holiday of Saturnalia, which in turn came from an ancient Mithran holiday celebrating his birth.
It occurs to me that I could end up regretting this, but what the hey, Saturnalia only comes once a year.
Saturnalia celebrated the rebirth of Saturn, the god of the harvest, and the dawn of the new year from the winter's darkness.
This had been, after all, originally their festival of light and of feasting, which they called Saturnalia, after Saturn, father of Pluto.
That is the sense of the Saturnalia, of Mardi Gras and of these moments of entertainment.
Some holiday rituals evolved from pre-Christian Saturnalia and so were often accompanied by rowdiness, drunkenness, and the shooting of firecrackers.
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The saturnalia that succeeded the capture of the castaway had come to a close.
The saturnalia in the Curzon Street house began that very night.
This was their day, their feast of fools, their saturnalia, the annual orgy of the corporation of Law clerks and of the school.
This, then, is the trapper's holiday, when he is all for fun and frolic, and ready for a saturnalia among the mountains.
The winter solstice had come, and the Feast of the Saturnalia commenced in lutetia.
But for the present they were absolute, and the Saturnalia of blood went on.
The week of the rule of Saturn, the Saturnalia, was a time of revelry and riot.
Wilcox and the Warringtons were gone to bed, and the kitchen was abandoned to Saturnalia.
At the return of the sun the feast of the Saturnalia was celebrated at Rome.
They were like the Roman slaves who, during the Saturnalia, played at being free.
And I remember that she seemed to describe afterwards a sort of Saturnalia.
The sacea were a festival at Babylon similar to the Saturnalia.
The holydays are made a jubilee, or rather resemble the Saturnalia.
Thanks Thando and wishing you a happy 11 months till the next Saturnalia.
It will be done by appropriating the customs of Saturnalia, a northern European festival celebrating the Winter Solstice, with Saturnalia bushes styled as Christmas trees.
As at the Saturnalia, masters drank and gambled with slaves.
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