Bathing

Examples

• It was a pretty picture: the beach; the bathing-women's faces; the long line of rocks and building were blushing and bright in the sunshine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We remained in quarters until the afternoon bathing our eyes in cold water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Buffer says he knows a man who married a bathing-woman, and bolted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Damp, but not wet linen, may possibly give colds; but no one catches cold by bathing, and no clothes can be wetter than water itself. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The wax of the ear is essential for flexibility of the ear drum; if an extra amount accumulates, it can be got rid of by bathing the ear in hot water, since the heat will melt the wax. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A little sea-bathing would set me up forever. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She saw, with the creative eye of fancy, the streets of that gay bathing-place covered with officers. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He recommended it for all the children, but particularly for the weakness in little Bella's throat,both sea air and bathing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• This sagacious pig was fond of bathing in rich, moist mud. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This includes water for drinking, cooking, dish washing, bathing, laundry. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• With the ungraduated sun-dial the Greeks fixed their times for bathing and eating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Perry was a week at Cromer once, and he holds it to be the best of all the sea-bathing places. Jane Austen. Emma.
• We had met there accidentally, and were bathing together. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• D'Arnot breathed a sigh of relief, and went about bathing the blood from Tarzan's face. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Jane paused in her bathing, to reply to Miss Thornton's question. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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