The keg stood solid and substantial, the hub about which reeled the orgy.

Tiffin, meanwhile, sped by like an orgy.

The conduct of the German troops appears, it is true, to have been distinguished, in this latter expedition, by a brutality which stood out in relief even in that orgy of slaughter and loot.

Pertinax strolled to the front of the pavilion and looked out to make sure there were no eavesdroppers, staring for a long time at the revelry that was warming up into an orgy.

The orgy was taking place in one of the ground-floor rooms which had French windows opening on to the drive, and it was to these French windows that I now made my way.

But perhaps at the beginning of an orgy the mind had still an unusual degree of lucidity.

" Does not the death of a parent often overtake young people thus in the fulness of life, in the wild enjoyment of an orgy?

This model of good breeding, this duke spirited in an orgy, this brilliant courtier, gracious toward women, whose hearts he had wrung as a peasant bends a willow wand, this man of genius, had an obstinate cough, a troublesome sciatica and a cruel gout.

Indeed the press of London had yielded itself up to an encomiastic orgy.

He called it a monstrous orgy.

Far off, from the red purgatory between the walls, sounds the savage thrum-thrum of a negro orgy, here all is peace and perfume.

For a whole week the Gunj Suwaie was rummaged from stem to stern, while the crew of the Fancy indulged in a horrible orgy, excited beyond measure by the immense booty that had fallen into their hands.

Like Liszt he was a religious mystic, and Vernon Blackburn has said that the women who used to attend Gounod's concerts of sacred music "used to look upon them as a sort of religious orgy.

He started violently when we hailed him, and stared at us as nightmare creatures in a bad dream after an absinthe orgy.

At Louvain that night the Germans were like men after an orgy.

They enact all that was ever portrayed by prurient artists in a bacchanalian festival or pandean orgy; and as the light of the sun they adore and the presence of numerous spectators seem to be no restraint on their indulgence, it cannot be expected that chastity is preserved when the shades of night fall on such a scene of licentiousness and debauchery.

Looting, destruction, one can forgive in the orgy of war which is organized destruction; one can even understand rapine and atrocities when armies, which include latent vile and criminal elements, are aroused to the kind of insane passion which war kindles in human beings.

With the burgomaster a refugee from the horrors of that orgy, he turned man of action on behalf of the demoralized people of the town with a thousand homes in ruins.

This must have brought a holocaust of reprisals that would have made the orgy of Louvain comparatively insignificant.

He himself was startled at his own delight, at that orgy of pride that had extinguished his chronic ailments; it seemed to him as though he were spending in a few hours the stores of enjoyment of his whole life.

It was his regular day for getting drunk and indulging in an orgy of gambling.

" "The pious orgy at Naples on September the eighth went through the following phases when I witnessed it in 1897.

He was brown, deep brown, red-brown, an orgy of browns.

He builded wondrous, orgy-haunted castles out of their brilliant fires, and was appalled at what he builded.

No doubt it is just the suitable time, but I would rather not make one in an orgy of horrors.