So, with a great show of resolution and not a little feeling of martyrdom, they buy a pair of Indian clubs, or wall exercisers, or a weight machine, or, perhaps, merely buy a book of "exercises without apparatus," and make up their minds to take their exercises regularly every morning.
"Analyzing Character"
Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb
14. When exercisers taken for its effects upon the health, what conditions should be observed?
"Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools"
Francis M. Walters, A.M.
But our good resolutions did really array themselves in colours when the first of the exercisers was invented.
"The Book of This and That"
Robert Lynd