soap-dish

I sat very still, scowling unseeing at the soap-dish.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

He abandoned the hand-bag, eventually found the spectacles under the bed, and took them into the steam-filled room, setting them in a corner of the soap-dish for her.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

He abandoned the hand-bag, eventually found the spectacles under the bed, and took them into the steam-filled room, setting them in a corner of the soap-dish for her.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

I sat very still, scowling unseeing at the soap-dish.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

The first candidates for the soap-dish were very unruly under the operation, but they only got their ears snipped and their skin chipped, and had to return to their prisons with their polls all bloody as well as bald.

La Vend�e 2004

The tub was long enough for a Prussian Guard, and above the set bowl was a sensational exhibit of tooth-brush holder, shaving-brush holder, soap-dish, sponge-dish, and medicine-cabinet, so glittering and so ingenious that they resembled an electrical instrument-board.

Babbit 2004

For the moment his head was clearer but when he moved about the bathroom his calculations of distance were wrong, so that he dragged down the towels, and knocked over the soap-dish with a clatter which, he feared, would betray him to the children.

Babbit 2004

She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.

The Great Gatsby 2003

Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog -- to and fro on the floor, up and down, and round in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cartwhipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap-dish and the flesh-brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

In fact it was difficult to get my hands under the tap until Basil cleared a small space for me, pushing greasy pans and dishes to one side, daintily picking pieces of congealed bacon and sausage from around the soap-dish.

Every living thing Herriot, James 1992