What is "bather"

Usage examples of "bather".

The Old Sweet is, in fact, a delightful old-fashioned resort, respectable and dull, with a pretty park, and a crystal pond that stimulates the bather like a glass of champagne, and perhaps has the property of restoring youth.

Upon emerging from it, the bather is plunged into cold water or receives a cool, shower bath.

The bather passes from one apartment to another, each one being of a higher temperature than the preceding.

The bather then returns through the various apartments, and, upon emerging from that of the lowest temperature, he experiences a delightful sensation of vigor and elasticity.

The bather is supplied by the attendant every few minutes with copious draughts of cool water.

In this the bather stands and applies the water with a sponge from a basin or bowl on a stand placed conveniently near.

The bather had no soap, but used rough fibre gloves with which he rubbed the surface of his skin until it glowed.

The bathers reappeared on the grass-ridge, racing and flapping wet towels.

The colonel had been one of the bathers, and he stood like a circus-driver flicking a wet towel at Crossjay capering.

And if the women on the promenade were homely and ill-dressed, even the bonnes in unpicturesque costumes, and all the men were slouchy and stolid, how could any one tell what an effect of gayety and enjoyment there might be when there were thousands of such people, and the sea was full of bathers, and the flags were flying, and the bands were tooting, and all the theatres were opened, and acrobats and spangled women and painted red-men offered those attractions which, like government, are for the good of the greatest number?

Today there were not half a dozen carriages and omnibuses altogether, and the bathers were few-nursery maids, fragments of a day-excursion, and some of the fair conventionists.

When he saw the Bathers he felt exactly as I had: that this was a different world of painting, that one had to start over.

The tomb would have the scope of the Bathers in the three-dimensional, heroic character of marble.

He considers himself a follower of yours, copies before your Bathers every day, gives lectures on it to new painters.

Jacopo telling stories, Aristotle giving a lecture on the Bathers, Bugiardini singing love songs about Florence.