suning

Poet, and painter too, might have spent a profitable hour on the shores of that great sequestered lake, and as they watched the picturesque groups -- clustering round the blazing fires, preparing their morning meal, smoking their pipes, examining and repairing the boats, or suning their stalwart limbs in wild, careless attitudes upon the greensward -- might have found a subject worthy the most brilliant effusions of the pen, or the most graphic touches of the pencil.

The Young Fur Traders 1859