Her hands were the shrivelled, unlovely members that bespeak long and daily immersion in dirty water.

The current was so swift, that one could not venture far without the risk of being carried away; but I succeeded in obtaining a complete and most refreshing immersion.

On this occasion the officiating clergyman was rather a slight man, and the lady to be baptized was extremely large and corpulenthe took her by the hands to perform the immersion, but notwithstanding his most strenuous exertions, he was thrown off his centre.

When men seek immersion or absorption in the atmosphere of pure poesy, without lesson or moral, or anything but delight of fancy and stir of imagination, they will find him less congenial to their mood than poets not worthy to loose the latchet of his shoe in the greater elements of his art.

Though bedraggled and dishevelled, she was nevertheless delightful, and treated her sudden immersion with careless unconcern.