I wonder whether bathers nowadays venture out as far as we did.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
We catch their conversation in the middle as they walk along the sands the tide is leaving clear, after accommodating the few morning-bathers with every opportunity to get out of their depths.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
On his second day's dip, as he was leaving, a man whom he had noticed intently scanning the bathers tapped him on the arm.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson