bathing-machines

It is convenient thus courageously to attack bathing-machines, because there are no bathing-machines to attack.

Archive 2007-07-01 Kelly M. 2007

As to the bathing-machines, they were (how they got there, is not for me to say) at the top of a hill at least a mile and a half off.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

It is convenient thus courageously to attack bathing-machines, because there are no bathing-machines to attack.

Vintage Distributism Athanasius 2007

We have an excellent hotel — capital baths, warm, cold, and shower — first-rate bathing-machines — and as good butchers, bakers, and grocers, as heart could desire.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Sometimes it is towards the ocean — smiling with countless dimples, speckled with white sails, with a hundred bathing-machines kissing the skirt of his blue garment — that the Londoner looks enraptured: sometimes, on the contrary, a lover of human nature rather than of prospects of any kind, it is towards the bow windows that he turns, and that swarm of human life which they exhibit.

Vanity Fair 2006

So getting up very early the next morning, Becky brought the telescope in their sitting-room, which faced the sea, to bear upon the bathing-machines on the beach; saw Briggs arrive, enter her box; and put out to sea; and was on the shore just as the nymph of whom she came in quest stepped out of the little caravan on to the shingles.

Vanity Fair 2006

You behold a hundred bathing-machines put to sea; and your naughty fancy depicts the beauties splashing under their white awnings.

The Newcomes 2006

Also they met by the sad sea waves, when the bathing-machines had been hauled up — for the Major now had three of them — as often as Stixon senior smiled — which he did whenever he was not put out — on the bygone ways of these children.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

On the sand were still many bathing-machines, but many others had begun to climb for greater safety during the winter to the street above.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

The bathing-machines too were being pulled up by horses, and along the planked way which formed the promenade running along the shore from end to end, there was now an increasing flow, slow and dense, of well-dressed people in two opposite streams elbowing and mingling.

Pierre And Jean 2003