vapour-bath

I now went back to the house, and saw how they all -- almost -- made use of the vapour-bath.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

I availed myself of the opportunity to examine the first, and probably the only, vapour-bath on the Antarctic Barrier.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

We had no time to deal with the vapour-bath or the carpenter's shop just then.

The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey 2009

There were still other friends of their souls who were not entitled to be asked to dinner, but had a claim to be invited to come and take a haunch of mutton vapour-bath at half-past nine.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

And now the haunch of mutton vapour-bath having received a gamey infusion, and a few last touches of sweets and coffee, was quite ready, and the bathers came; but not before the discreet automaton had got behind the bars of the piano music-desk, and there presented the appearance of a captive languishing in a rosewood jail.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

I now went back to the house, and saw how they all — almost — made use of the vapour-bath.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

I availed myself of the opportunity to examine the first, and probably the only, vapour-bath on the Antarctic Barrier.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

The fibres therefore, being earthy and solid, are turned into so many hot embers in the blood, like the embers in a vapour-bath, and cause ebullition in the fits of passion.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

Lewis and Clarke, in their voyage up the Missouri, have noticed the use of the vapour-bath in

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various

The invasion of an army of jungle rats, behind the walls and above the ceiling of a room sodden and dripping with the afternoon's flood, completes the disillusion, and compels a hasty descent to the warmer damp of the lowlands, for the Equatorial climate, and the general absence of bed-coverings, causes a rheumatic stiffness on rising, which has to be steamed out by the atmospheric vapour-bath of the tropical island.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings