30 Metaphors for baths

The Great Bath is a rectangular tank 111 feet by 68 feet, originally lined with lead 1/4 inch thick.

The baths themselves were huge and simplea series of gigantic steaming vats in which possibly a dozen men lathered themselves at once.

If so, we may meet; but Bath is my dear delight in all seasons.

The bath of the Annexe was a large cement tank, primarily for washing clothes.

Her bath had been just the right temperature, her maid's attention was skilful and delicate as ever.

The bath was a cylinder some five feet in depth and about two in diameter, with thin double walls, the space between which was filled with an apparatus of small pipes.

The Bath is the "peculiar institution" of the East.

Even the baths, designed for sanatory purposes, became places of resort and idleness, and ultimately of intrigue and vice.

Mrs. Behn says that the cold bath is the best medicine for weak children, but I am very fearful and unwilling to try any hazardous remedies.

Baths were the means of removing all three inconveniences.

A daily cold bath when the body is comfortably warm, is a safe tonic for almost all persons during the summer months, and tends especially to restore the appetite.

The mud baths are perhaps more celebrated than those of steam or water, being especially efficacious in severe, and often apparently otherwise incurable, cases of rheumatism.

When we left St. Germain I was, as you all know, suffering agonies from toothache, which is now cured; this bath has been the best remedy I have ever applied; and if any of us dined too heartily upon salt provisions, we have at least the satisfaction of feeling that we have been enabled to drink freely since."

Swimming baths would be a real boon; the beneficial effects of this form of exercise upon both nerves and body being too well known to need further comment.

Bath was then a noted resort, and its waters were supposed to cure everything.

Bath and Ilchester are Roman towns, and from and through them Roman roads run across the county.

The baths were scenes of orgies consecrated to Bacchus, and the frescos on the excavated baths of Pompeii still raise a blush on the face of every spectator who visits them.

She had early renounced the world and its fascinations; left Bath, where her mother and sister Christiana Gurney resided; became eventually a minister among Friends; and found a congenial retreat for many years at Colebrook Dale.

In mediaeval days Bath was a walled city, and fragments of its fortifications, crowned by a modern battlement, may still be seen in "Borough Walls"; and two round-headed arches of the old E. gate are visible in a passage behind the Empire Hotel, leading to the river.

The bath was a great comfort, for I began to feel acute pains in my limbs, and was so tired that I could scarcely keep awake for five minutes together.

The bath was empty save for one man, whom I recognized as the chief priest.

Round the city flowed a river of the most precious ointment, a hundred cubits in breadth, and deep enough to swim in; the baths are large houses of glass perfumed with cinnamon, and instead of water filled with warm dew.

The baths that the Emperor Titus built were the supreme, last touch of all.

On the whole, the bath that has given the best results is one containing, in addition to gold, a small quantity of hypo and a considerable quantity of sulphocyanide of ammonium.

Bath is a picturesque little village, embowered in perpetual green, and lying at the foot of a mountain on one side, and on the other by the margin of a rambling little river.

30 Metaphors for  baths