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  • It was splendid fun while it lasted, which was until she began to shudder and scream and tried to throttle me with her hair, so I romped her up and down all the way to the lavatory, where we finished the business under the patent showerbath, once I'd got the knack of the dam 'thing, which ain't easy with a mad nymph clinging to your manly chest.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Darcy sweet tart goodbye of course he had the gift of the voice so there was no art in it all over you like a warm showerbath O

    Ulysses 2003

  • It was splendid fun while it lasted, which was until she began to shudder and scream and tried to throttle me with her hair, so I romped her up and down all the way to the lavatory, where we finished the business under the patent showerbath, once I'd got the knack of the dam 'thing, which ain't easy with a mad nymph clinging to your manly chest.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • It was splendid fun while it lasted, which was until she began to shudder and scream and tried to throttle me with her hair, so I romped her up and down all the way to the lavatory, where we finished the business under the patent showerbath, once I'd got the knack of the dam 'thing, which ain't easy with a mad nymph clinging to your manly chest.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • That was to draw out a confused mixture of air and water in droplets and larger masses, because in no-gravity a man could drown in his own showerbath.

    Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

  • A covered showerbath stood in the corner of the apartment, and into that shower-bath I jumped, closing the curtains all round me, but, as may be easily believed, taking very particular care not to pull the string.

    Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

  • After coming out of a showerbath, my appetite was imperious.

    Don Marquis Letter to Knox College Alumni 1930

  • At dawn they roused him out of his drugged sleep and gave him a showerbath and rubdown that brought a healthy glow to his cold skin.

    Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912

  • As he followed them upstairs at a cautious interval, and thought over what he had just so unwillingly overheard, he felt as one who had just been subjected to a moral showerbath.

    Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers F. Anstey 1895

  • He believed that his eloquence, endowed with the virtues of a cold showerbath, would calm this unwonted effervescence of his constituency.

    Crime d'Orcival. English ��mile Gaboriau 1852

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