sweat bath
Example Sentences
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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
Sometimes a sweat bath was taken, after which the body was rubbed with sweet-smelling plants.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
"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.
The sweat bath lasts for a long time, often an hour or more, during which many prayers are offered, religious songs chanted, and several pipes smoked to the Sun.
From Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People by Grinnell, George Bird
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
