| Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 420 pages
...windows is the King's Bath ; a huge ciftern, where you fee the patients up to their necks in hot water, The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the fweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the fteam that furrounds them, or the heat... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1793 - 268 pages
...windows is the King's Bath ; a huge eiftern, where you fee the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the fweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the fteam that -furrounds them, or the... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 560 pages
...windows is the King's Bath ; a huge ciftern, where you fee the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to xvipe the fweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the fteam that furrounds them,... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 280 pages
...windows is the King's Bath; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way.—My aunt, who says every person of fashion should make her appearance in the bath, as well as... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 280 pages
...windows is the King's Bath; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way.—My aunt, who says every person of fashion should make her appearance in the bath, as well as... | |
| Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...windows is the king's bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the Hweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether ft is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat... | |
| Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - Great Britain - 1836 - 436 pages
...windows is the king's bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always tuni my eyes another way. My aunt, who says every person of fashion should make her appearance in the... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1886 - 588 pages
...is the King's bath, a large cistern, where you see the patients up to their neck in the hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe their faces ; but they look so flushed and so frightful that I always turn my eyes another way." Miss... | |
| English literature - 1870 - 590 pages
...is the Bang's bath — a large cistern where you see the patients up to their neck in the hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces; but they look so flushed and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way.' Miss Burney's Evelina,... | |
| English literature - 1870 - 574 pages
...is the King's bath — a large cistern where you see the patients up to their neck in the hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces ; but they look so flushed and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way.' Miss Burney's Evelina,... | |
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