The domestic arrangements in these minor palaces are unique; the bathing apparatus in Montplaisir is very curious, where the royal personages come even to-day to enjoy steam baths, cold baths, and baths of every conceivable nature, often submitting to a discipline which one would think might try the physical powers of an athlete.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
For Stas it was considerably more difficult, but he was too well-trained an athlete not to overcome the weight of his own body together with the rifle and a score of cartridges with which he filled his pockets.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Though but twenty-two, the frame was that of a trained athlete-stalwart, straight-limbed, muscular; and with all combined a grace which comes only with birth and breeding.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice