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  • This is the idea: after dark each night we shall hoist our three metal wash-basins, loaded with inflammables, up to the stays.

    CHAPTER XLIV 2010

  • There was, oddly enough, no other fruit for sale there; but there was a very agreeable-looking booth at the end of the platform placarded with signs of Puerto Rico coffee, cognac, and other drinks; and outside of it there were wash-basins and clean towels.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Pipes connected to the waste outlet to water-using appliances such as WCs and wash-basins after the water-trap.

    1. Intake structures 1999

  • The Texans were led into a room where there were five wash-basins; the water in the basins was so hot that five columns of steam rose into the room.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • The Texans were led into a room where there were five wash-basins; the water in the basins was so hot that five columns of steam rose into the room.

    Dead Man’s Walk Larry McMurtry 1995

  • She tipped everything out, and then proceeded to put her things in place, just as the others did-pyjamas under the pillow'toothbrush, face-flannel, tooth-paste and sponge on a glass ledge at one end of the dormy where the wash-basins were.

    The Second Form at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1970

  • There was a rattle of tin wash-basins, the swish of water as it was heaved at the singer, and then a howl of dismay from Slim.

    The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X Willard F. Baker

  • Under the piazza, ranged along the wall, was a low bench, occupied by about forty tin wash-basins and water-pails, and with coarse, dirty crash towels suspended on rollers above it.

    Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

  • The furniture, mats, and couches were of cane, while wooden platters, brass kettles, and common wash-basins, were spread out in every direction for show and service.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Under the piazza, ranged along the wall, was a low bench, occupied by about forty tin wash-basins and water-pails, with coarse, dirty crash towels suspended on rollers above them.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

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