For three weeks, then, she sought to immerse herself in this old life-sharing the surface confidences of the Salamanders, playing her part in little financial intrigues, running into pawn-shops with Winona, or making profitable arrangements at Pouffe's for the crediting on flowers withheld for Ida Summers, who was new; working up the birthday game for Clarice and Anita, when consulted by admirers as to what would please these difficult ladies; raising her own capital by the reselling of the bi-weekly basket of champagne from Peavey, the flowers that Stacey, Gilday and Sassoon assiduously offered, receiving her share of convertible presents from chance admirers, hooked for a week or two-at the bottom without zest, sick at heart, tired of it all.
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson
Is it essential that there be enough to entirely immerse the body?
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke
Blake entered upon another profuse apology, meantime docily permitting the others to immerse him in the tub of hot water.
"Out of the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet