wash-hand basin
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Here’s most half a wash-hand basin and a whole stodge of bits squandered all over the gravel walk.
From A Fluttered Dovecote by Fenn, George Manville
“Sarved ’em right too,” remarked the tall man, whose partiality for the tin wash-hand basin and the tooth-brush we have already noticed.
From The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
The third bedroom showed manifest traces of occupation, though it was as bare as the others, for the water still stood in the wash-hand basin, and the bed was unmade.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
He indicates a little enameled wash-hand basin hanging on the wall and decorated with flowers: "There's where one can wash his hands."
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater
There was not a place in which a wash-hand basin could be put, so awkwardly were the doors arranged, to one of which there was no fastening whatsoever.
From Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Roberts, Miss Emma
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