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  • You can replace the words “mass media outlets” with any other - “shoe”, “hammer”, “watercloset lid” - the meaning will not change!

    Global Voices in English » Kazakhstan: Internet Regulation Amendments Adopted in First Reading 2009

  • BTW, it was Max Reger who coined the timeless riposte from his watercloset to a critic of his day.

    Heliane: the reckoning Jessica 2007

  • TWO rooms, my own watercloset, my own little terrace-thingy, cheaper rent, complete control of the look of the living room, the entire upstairs is mine and mine only ...

    pojken Diary Entry pojken 2005

  • In a Greek watercloset he breathed his last: euthanasia.

    Ulysses 2003

  • So I arose and went to the watercloset, but not finding him there, went down to the kitchen, where I saw a slave girl, and when I enquired for him, she showed him to me lying with one of the cookmaids.

    Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

  • A short hall opened first upon a bathroom and watercloset, then upon a small chamber furnished with a table and chair: the Kaiark's refectory.

    Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975

  • There should be a ventilated trap placed on the pipe leading from the watercloset to the cesspit.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various

  • A patient of No. 1 ward discovered her suspended from the ladder eight minutes after she had last seen her in the adjoining watercloset, and gave the alarm.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

  • Illstarred heresiarch 'In a Greek watercloset he breathed his last: euthanasia.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • One particularly useful sounding app - Toilux - which finds public toilets for those with pee-sized bladders can't even get impatient pee-ers to shell out a dollar for its watercloset satnaving.

    TG Daily Sylvie Barak 2010

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  • In a Greek watercloset he breathed his last: euthanasia.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 3

    December 30, 2006