He went to the exerciser springs on the wall and performed a work-out that left him tired and sweating but which, at least, gave him a small appetite.
"The Nothing Equation"
Tom Godwin
The time is passing when we performed this task of pure lustration, as Keats might have called it, in the cellar or the back hall, more fully, but not completely, dressed, coatless, our waistcoats rakishly unbuttoned or vulgarly upstairs, our innocent trousers hanging on their gallowses, our shoes on our feet, and our physical activity not altogether unlike that demanded by a home-exerciser to reduce the abdomen.
"The Perfect Gentleman"
Ralph Bergengren
Bath-tub, Sandow exerciser, and photographs of my sisters by Ellis and Walery.
"Carnival"
Compton Mackenzie