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orgy

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orgy
History secret religious rites of Dionysus, Bacchus, etc., marked by drinking, dancing, and songs


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He had violent passions, and on occasion desire seized his body so that he was driven to an orgy of lust, but he hated the instincts that robbed him of his self-possession.
One after another of us joined in the orgy of rage, until even old Marrow-Bone was mumbling and spluttering with his cracked voice and withered lips.
There was an orgy of tears and leavetakings, and then they drove away into the odorous moonlight night.
 
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