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The warden of this establishment, though astonished to find anyone travelling on holiday in late October, even in a car, was willing to provide a reasonably furnished cubicle with a modern mattress on the bed and a wash-hand basin where the hot tap provided scalding water.

Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010

Then a chair was flung over and the wash-hand stand tumbler smashed.

The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

Then he distinctly heard a movement across the room, near the wash-hand stand.

The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

Suddenly, with a start, he perceived a coiled and blood-stained bandage of linen rag hanging in mid-air, between him and the wash-hand stand.

The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

The present successors of the apostles, disciples of Dr. Pusey and tools of the Propaganda, were at that time being hatched under cradle - blankets, or undergoing regeneration by nursery-baptism in wash-hand basins.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

“Mind your own business, sir!” shouted Mr. Lewisham at the wash-hand stand.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

Attached by a drawing-pin to the roof over the wash-hand stand, which — the room being an attic — sloped almost dangerously, dangled a Time – Table.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

“Who would control others must first control himself,” remarked the wall over the wash-hand stand, and behind the door against the Sunday trousers was a portrait of

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

He engaged Alfred Emery Cathie as clerk, but made no other change, except that he bought a pair of new hair brushes and a larger wash-hand basin.

Samuel Butler: A Sketch 2003

Then the water from the wash-hand bowl in the bathroom ran loudly out.

The Trespasser 2003