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"Maenad" Quotes from Famous Books

... the glass of decent reticence with a great clattering blow. It shivered into fragments. There was nothing now between them but the real issue in all its uncomely bareness. This real issue, the maenad at the wheel now held up before them in a single brutal statement—"Are you in love with Felix? ...

— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield

... saw a spirit surface-fair, A Maenad-masked betrayer, base, impure, But with sin's glittering garb, and radiant air, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99., August 2, 1890. • Various

... came to where Through an arid gloom the river Chaudiere Fled like a Maenad with outstreaming hair; And there the soldier sank, and died. Death-dumb he fell; yet ere life sped, Child-like on her knee he laid his head. She strove to pray; but all words fled Save those ...

— Dreams and Days: Poems • George Parsons Lathrop

... towards the House. But they had not gone far ere a blast of wind, more violent than any that had preceded it, smote the wood, and the trees, young larches and birches and sycamores, bent streaming before it. Lady Florimel turned to see where Malcolm was, and her hair went from her like a Maenad's, while her garments flew fluttering and straining, as if struggling to carry her off. She had never in her life before been out in a storm, and she found the battle joyously exciting. The roaring of the wind in the trees was grand; ...

— Malcolm • George MacDonald

Words linked to "Maenad" : Greek mythology, woman, adult female