To most men tub time is the jolliest in the day; here it is one of evil temper, for after you have waited say twenty minutes in a passage for your chance, you get into a little wet steamy place over the engines, with possibly no port and poorly ventilated, and have your tub in a hurry for you know other fellows are waiting outside, and instead of gaily carolling your morning song you feel angry and cuss cusses, not loud, but profound as Tuscarora Deep.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
After the noise and steamy heat of the dining-room, this was an example our two friends were not sorry to follow.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
The sombre forest seemed to be less depressing, and when they had struggled on for another hour, until the heat began to be steamy, a brighter light shone through the trees ahead, and they awakened to the fact that they were near the little river, whose banks they at last reached, to lie down beneath the spreading branches of a huge tree.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn