There are no bathing machines or tents; but all along the shore, in supplement of the liliputian houses that serve a double debt to pay-being residences at night and bathing-machines by day,-stand rows of sentry-boxes, whence the bather emerges arrayed in more or less bewitching attire.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
As the rise and fall of the tide are so trifling, the beach is always in a fit state for the bather.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black
It made one shudder to see that silent terror patrolling up and down the margin of the deep water, waiting for an incautious venture of the bather beyond the shallows, into which the shark dared not come.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman