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They strapped the lunches and bathing-suits to the fenders and were gone before nine o’clock.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

The hot afternoon sun poured generously over them and dried their bathing-suits into every-day clothes.

From Harper's Round Table, May 14, 1895 by Various

Of course, there are people who carry it further than I do, and can't be quite happy except in their bathing-suits.

From The Smiling Hill-Top And Other California Sketches by Winslow, Carleton M.

Half an hour later Eunice appeared, driving a pair of depressed looking children before her, clad only in their little blue bathing-suits.

From Cricket at the Seashore by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt

Sun-bonnets shading merry faces, flushed with business; blue flannel bathing-suits draping very unpicturesquely the persons, bare feet stained with mud,—baskets full of the delicate fish they had been catching.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan