General Booth's scheme for elevating the masses by cymbals and dogma was "Corybantic Christianity"; to explain what he thought was the Catholic attitude to the doctrine of evolution, he said it would have been called damnabilis by Father Suarez, and that he would have meant "not that it was to be damned, but that it was an active principle capable of damning."
"Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work"
P. Chalmers Mitchell
Then the Corybantic Couple vanish into the Inn, and the first two couples are left, slowly, solemnly dancing, apart from each other as before.
"The Little Dream (Second Series Plays)"
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Others tended the drawers and rovers, while Sabina Dinnett, Nancy Buckler and Alice Chick, whose high task it was to spin, seemed to twinkle here, there and everywhere in a Corybantic measure as they served the shouting and insatiable monsters that turned hemp and flax to yarn.
"The Spinners"
Eden Phillpotts