She plunged her hands into tepid water that clung to her like fuzz.

The opinion that warm baths generally relax and weaken, is erroneous; for in this case, as in all cases when properly employed, they would give tone and vigour to the whole system; in fact, the tepid bath is to this child what the cold bath is to the more robust.

That eminent chemist who took his walks abroad in tin shoes, and subsisted wholly upon tepid milk, had all his work cut out for him in considerate dealings with his own digestion.

Then no more Th' expansive atmosphere is cramped with cold, But, full of life and vivifying soul, Lifts the light clouds sublime and spreads them thin, Fleecy and white, o'er all-surrounding heaven; Forth fly the tepid airs, and, unconfined, Unbinding earth, the moving softness strays.

Co-operation by B and C Flights." Lieutenant Maude, commonly known by a loose association of ideas as Toddles, buried a heightened complexion in a plate of now tepid soup.

She nodded, slowly awakening to a tepid curiosity about the individual who strode beside her, lanky and powerful in his blue jeans.

In the morning we had a tepid decoction intended for coffee; at mid-day a pint and a half of thick soup, and at night rather less than a pint of thin soup.

The most tempting solution of this question of washing seems to be found in the use of large pools of running tepid water; but such a process is too costly for general use, and the most economical one, without doubt, consists in giving tepid douches.

Give me old London at Fire and Plague times, rather than these tepid gales, healthy country air, and purposeless exercise.

On the whole they showed only a tepid joy at the prospect of again becoming French citizens.

And then one looks round and sees it instead as a frail organisation of the lame, the halt, and the blind, a tepid organisation of the satisfied, the bourgeois, the conventionally genteel, a helpless organisation of the ignorant, the half-witted, the stupid; an organisation full to the brim of cant, humbug, timid orthodoxy, unreality, self-content, and all kinds of Potterismand one doesn't see how it can overcome anything whatever.

But conceive what it was to see them through an atmosphere of warm white steam that left an objectionable clamminess on the backs of the chairs and caused even the door-handle to burst into a tepid perspiration.

Quails, too, seek the shade during the heat of the day about tepid pools in the channels of the larger mid-river streams.

And this from one to whom the Wild West in fiction has long been a weariness is something more than tepid praise.

You know the sedate mental gardeners and the tepid priests.

For it was a cold sirocco, bringing showers of tepid rain from the south, and the drops seemed to chill themselves as they fell.

No more tire morn, with tepid rays, Unfolds the flow'r of various hue; Noon spreads no more the genial blaze, Nor gentle eve distils the dew.

And then see how utterly the man has lost all sense of proportionhe has spent hours and days in identifying with uncommon patience the exact date of these tepid scraps, and he says he is content to have laid a single stone in the "unamended, unabridged, authentic temple" of his idol's fame.

We untwisted our turbans, kicked off our baggy trowsers, and speedily releasing ourselves from the barbarous restraints of dress, dipped into the tepid sea and floated lazily out until we could feel the exquisite coldness of the living springs which sent up their jets from the bottom.

In other cases, sponging with tepid soap and water, then with tepid water and drying with a hot towel will be ordered.

The steam generated in the boiler passes into the ejector, sucks up the water and forces it out in a tepid state.

Or scorch with seering flames, Æra's nature flows in tepid streams, And life's meanders glide.

Can you imagine it?" Hilda tried to exhibit a tepid sympathy.

Not for a crown, grim coal, would I pursue thee In subterranean passages and hew thee Mid poisonous fumes and draughts of tepid tea.

In conclusion: if the bath in any shape cannot from circumstances be obtained, then cold saltwater sponging must be used daily, and all the year round, so long as the proper reaction or glow follows its use; but when this is not the case, and this will generally occur, if the child is delicate and the weather cold, tepid vinegar and water, or tepid salt water, must be substituted.