seabathing

Portobello myself, - or rather Anne Welsh had suggested that expedient for combining comfort with seabathing.

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

A new excitement is added to seabathing by the ladies, who face the waves in all the bravery of Parisian hats.

American Sketches 1908 Charles Whibley 1894

Alderley Park, and then he would find me at home to receive him; since he won't do as Miss Bromley and I wish - come here for a little seabathing to finish off with.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

I am here in my native Country, riding, seabathing, living on country diet, -- uttering no word, -- now into the fifth week; have had such a "retreat" as no La Trappe hardly could have offered me.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838

Now we have reached Halifax, and here is a view from the Citadel, looking out over the harbour; and here is another of that $13,000,000 project which cut a way through the solid rock for four miles to get a better entrance for the railroad into the city; and here is a view of the Wegwaltic Club on the North West Arm. The Haligonians are great for seabathing, and on my trip two years ago I had two husky young Toronto friends with me who I insisted should have an ocean bath, and, accompanied by one of the Club members, they jumped off the landing-stage you now see before you.

Coast to Coast by Automobile 1925

I am here in my native Country, riding, seabathing, living on country diet, ” uttering no word, ” now into the fifth week; have had such a “retreat” as no La Trappe hardly could have offered me.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883