Usage examples for Bacchantes:

• Plaintive at first were the tones and sad; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes "The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Long had the Bacchantes hated the loyal poet- lover of one fair woman whose dwelling was with the Shades. "A Book of Myths" – Jean Lang

• The vestibule, coloured in French gray, contains, in the intervals between the doors, figures of Bacchantes and, in the ceiling, wreaths of roses and other ornaments painted in imitation of relief. "Paris As It Was and As It Is" – Francis W. Blagdon

• In its centre was a fountain, a group of Bacchantes encircling Dionysos; and from this fountain, as from a star, diverged the various tables from which sprang orange- trees in fruit and flower. "Coningsby" – Benjamin Disraeli