"Sea bathing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Monument Beach, Pocasset and Cataumet. These resorts are popular from their sightly location along the shores of Buzzards Bay. The views are entrancing, the waters of the bay are suitable for warm sea bathing and boating is here a sport that is at its best. Back of these villages lie woodlands extending easterly to ...
— Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 • Various
... of instruments which admit of comparison with one another, in America, Europe, and Asia, embrace an area extending over 188 degrees of longitude, from the frontier of Chinese Dzoungarie to the west of the South Sea bathing the coasts of Mexico and Peru, and reaching from 60 degrees north lat. to 12 degrees south lat. I regard the discovery of the law of the decrement of magnetic force from the pole to the equator as the most important result of my American voyage." Although not absolutely certain, it is very ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt
... and, perhaps, never will, unless some medical encomiast should find an interest in displaying their virtues to the public view — Be that as it may, recourse will always be had to this place for the convenience of sea bathing, while this practice prevails; but it were to be wished, they would make the beach ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett
... such; and that there are now almost no 'gentlemen' (not quite none): this is one great head of my reflexions, to which there is no visible tail or finish. I have also a Horse (borrowed from my fat Yeoman friend, who is at sea bathing in Sussex); and I go riding, at great lengths daily, over hill and dale: this I believe is really the main good I am doing,—if in this either there be much good. But it is a strange way of life to me, for the time; perhaps not unprofitable: ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald
... managed ferry from the city; practically, nearer to Wall street than Murray Hill is; with most charming views of land and water; with a beautifully diversified surface, and an excellent soil; and affording capital opportunities for sea bathing, it should be, (were it not for its sanitary reputation, it inevitably would be,) one vast residence-park. Except on its extreme northern end, and along its higher ridges, it has,—and, unfortunately, it ...
— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring |
