The coastguard, though the pier itself hid the two Immersions from him, is quick of apprehension and ready with his glass, and has seen the boy's return from below; and at the same time heard, not his words, but the terror in them, and by some mysterious agency has sent a flying word along the beach that has brought a population out to help.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
I should soon be smothered by such repeated Immersions.
"The Boy Tar"
Mayne Reid
With her was a minister of the Baptist persuasion, who was swimming with the tide, and who approved of the Faith Healer's Immersions in the hot Healing Springs; also a medical student who had pretended belief in Ingles, and two women weeping with unnecessary remorse for human failings of no dire kind.
"Northern Lights"
Gilbert Parker