BATHE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Bathe

"Bathe" Quotes from Famous Books

... chalet on a woody knoll, high up on the grand slopes that bathe their feet in the beautiful Lake ...

— In the Track of the Troops • R.M. Ballantyne

... Buksh, was being taken by his mahowt to drink and bathe, according to custom, when it was observed that the elephant seemed to be out of temper. Just then one of the ...

— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne

... first, "by water"; that is, by holy baptism. He employs baptism as an outward sign of his work in the new birth of man and in man's sanctification. This water by which Christ comes cannot be a mere, empty sign; for he comes not merely to cleanse or bathe the body with water, but to purify the whole man from all pollution and blemishes inherent in him from Adam. Christ has instituted a cleansing wholly unlike the Mosaic ablutions under the Old Testament dispensation. ...

— Epistle Sermons, Vol. II - Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost • Martin Luther

... But I wished to reward her. She hid the things in her clothing; and when she was turned out she still thought of me, not of herself. She knew I would go to the hammam before my marriage, and that Zakia had been sent for to bathe me and make me beautiful. So she gave her cousin there a present, and all the rest of the jewels she gave to Zakia, for a promise Zakia made. Nothing has Embarka kept of all my gifts. It was like her! The rest is easy now. I shall never again know happiness, but neither ...

— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson

... lovely boy in Dian's shape, With hair that gilds the water as it glides Crownets of pearl about his naked arms, And in his sportful hands an olive-tree, To hide those parts which men delight to see, Shall bathe him in a spring; and there, hard by, One like Actaeon, peeping through the grove, Shall by the angry goddess be transform'd, And running in the likeness of an hart, By yelping hounds pull'd down, shall semm to die: Such things as these best please his majesty.— Here comes my lord ...

— Edward II. - Marlowe's Plays • Christopher Marlowe

More quotes...