The coffins are very strange affairs; they are in general form like a slipper-bath, but more depressed and symmetrical, with a large oval aperture to admit the body, which is closed with a lid of earthenware. ❋ Various (N/A)
So she filled a slipper-bath to 'put me to rights,' and I plunged into that so soon as I was set loose, and she splashed pitcher after pitcher full of water on my head. ❋ Unknown (1883)
Four years: what a road he has traveled: -- and sits now, about half-past seven of the clock, stewing in slipper-bath; sore afflicted; ill of Revolution Fever, -- of what other malady this History had rather not name. ❋ Various (1885)
Flora, jumping out of the furs of a vehicle which resembled a slipper-bath, and was drawn by four panting dogs, ran into the hut, exclaiming, "Dear father," and threw her arms round the neck of the elder McLeod, who was not slow to return the embrace. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Petawanaquat and Tony had just time to step out of the tent when a cariole, somewhat in the form of a slipper-bath, drawn by four dogs, dashed up to the door. ❋ Unknown (1859)
If the reader were to harness four dogs to a slipper-bath, he would have a fair idea of a dog-cariole and team. ❋ Unknown (1859)
It resembles a slipper-bath in form, is covered with yellow parchment, gaily painted, and drawn by four fine wolf-like dogs. ❋ Unknown (1859)
At the age of forty-five he became -- as he himself expressed it -- an abject slave, and he would as soon have tried to steer in a slipper-bath right in the teeth of an equinoctial hurricane, as have opposed the will of his wife. ❋ Unknown (1859)
On looking in the direction of the sound I perceived in the dingy light a person standing in a hole about the depth of his knees, and in length and breadth like a place which might be used as a slipper-bath. ❋ Unknown (1856)
Four years: what a road he has travelled; -- and sits now, about half-past seven of the clock, stewing in slipper-bath; sore afflicted; ill of Revolution Fever, -- of what other malady this History had rather not name. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
Excessively sick and worn, poor man: with precisely elevenpence-halfpenny of ready money, in paper; with slipper-bath; strong three-footed stool for writing on, the while; and a squalid -- Washerwoman, one may call her: that is his civic establishment in Medical-School Street; thither and not elsewhither has his road led him. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
On one occasion he was made to pass the night in a slipper-bath full of water; where, although he had all his clothes on, he declared that he nearly caught his death of cold. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
a slipper-bath full of water; where, although he had all his clothes on, he declared that he nearly caught his death of cold. ❋ Unknown (2006)
[The flat] was [equipped] with a slipper bath. ❋ Walter Street (2017)
