sweat bath
Example Sentences
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"Cannot I cut off the part and restore you by a sweat bath?" the friend asked.
From Myths and Legends of the Sioux by McLaughlin, Marie L.
He lay a cripple in Montenegro six months, but in the summer crawled down to the Bocche de Cattaro and on the sweltering shores of the Adriatic built himself a primitive sweat bath.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Gordon, Cora
These stones glowing white with heat are placed in a tiny pit underneath the covering of this booth, now to be called his sweat bath.
From The Vanishing Race by Dixon, Joseph Kossuth
The person wishing to make trial of the virtues of the sweat bath entered the â´sĭ, a small earth-covered log house only high enough to allow of sitting down.
Jim's overcoat gave him the pleasant feeling of sitting in a sweat bath but he dared not doff it.
From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy
