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  • There was a rest-room in the vestry—Jake might have had some sort of emergency, perhaps been taken ill, and rushed out to the side door rather than embarrass himself by doubling back through the church.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010

  • You should warn people to use the rest-room Before they read posts like this; I mean, come on, some of us have been drinking coffee all day...

    NO-HO - Nov. 8: Cook Something Bold Day Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2008

  • Kira then went on to design and build an improvement, a simple fold-down unit much like a rest-room urinal, exactly 24 inches above the floor, with an 8-inch opening and an elongated funnel that fits into the regular toilet bowl below and can be flipped back out of sigh when nto in use; it allows a man to relieve himself comfortably, easily, without embarrassing noise or unsanitary splash.

    Archive 2008-08-10 papabear 2008

  • Asked if there might be confusion with America's premier brand of urinal, editor-in-chief William Kristol sticks by the new name saying no conservative he knows has ever used a public rest-room.

    Tony Hendra: Highlights of President Jeb Bush's First Term 2008-2012 2008

  • Shortly before the 1964 elections, LBJ aide Walter Jenkins was arrested for homosexual activity in a YMCA rest-room.

    A Washington Rogues' Gallery 2008

  • About twenty years ago she became stuck in "Teacher Who Requires Your Attention" speaking mode, and I don't know how many of my fine readers have ever been inside a ladies rest-room in a smallish church, but let me just say there was an ECHO.

    The Great TMI Post 2004

  • If after 0600 you need to use the rest-room facilities, contact the Colonial staffer on your stateroom deck through your PDA.

    Old Mans War 2005

  • You cannot "turn away" from many games, as you can with many other activities; i.e., you can put down a book, pause a video, shut your eyes during a movie, ask a friend to "hang on" while you go to the rest-room, go inside for a coffee while gardening, etc.

    What Are You Missing? 2005

  • I received permission from them to make a quick rest-room stop, and then followed them from my deck, back to the waiting room of Dr. Russell.

    Old Mans War 2005

  • I wonder if I could get one of the department-stores to let me put in a welfare-department with a nice rest-room and chintzes and wicker chairs and so on and so forth.

    Babbit 2004

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