"Footbath" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never take cold, so don't worry. Yes, my dress is ruined, but that is of no consequence. No, thank you, Cecilia, I do not care for a hot drink. Romney, do go and take off those wet clothes of yours immediately. No, Cecilia, I will NOT take a hot footbath. I am going straight ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... The hot footbath and the steaming drink which I had given her when she first came in, together with the warmth of the gas log seemed to make my mother-in-law more comfortable. As I dried her feet and slipped them into a pair of warm bedroom slippers she smiled ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... position, kneeling as one must, had been always very trying for her. She frequently developed cramps, which only a hot footbath relieved.] ...
— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... fell in. That is all. No, Cecilia, I never take cold, so don't worry. Yes, my dress is ruined, but that is of no consequence. No, thank you, Cecilia, I do not care for a hot drink. Romney, do go and take off those wet clothes of yours immediately. No, Cecilia, I will NOT take a hot footbath. I am going straight ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... was conducting a dialogue in which he figured alternately as the tyrant and the victim of oppression. In the character of Napoleon Bonaparte he had filled a footbath with cold water, and was commanding the Rev. Philip Stimcoe to strip—as he put it—to the teeth, and immerse himself forthwith. As the Rev. Philip Stimcoe, patriot and martyr, he was obstinately, ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q) |
