washing-stand

The next thing he saw, and that too puzzled him, was a washing-stand, with ewers and basins, and soap and brushes, and towels, and a large bath full of clean water — what a heap of things all for washing!

The Water Babies 2007

In another, a lady was lying in bed, tucked up very tight and prim, and staring with much composure at a tripod, with a slop-basin on it; the usual form of washing-stand, and the only piece of furniture, besides the bedstead, in her chamber.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Old fire-guard, old shoes, two fish-baskets, washing-stand on three legs, and a poker.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

He should have a little table and common chair: these are real luxuries, as all who have tried to write, or seen others attempt it, from a low arm-chair at a washing-stand will readily acknowledge.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

Why am I looking at that cheap tin washing-stand and listening to the whirr of the wretched clock in the corridor?

The Wife 2004

Once again I raised myself from the window, went over to the washing-stand, and sprinkled some water on the shiny knees of my trousers to dull them a little and make them look a trifle newer.

Hunger 2003

The room contained a bed, table, and chairs, also a fireplace and a washing-stand.

Erewhon 2003

Waymarsh fixed on his washing-stand the silent detached stare with which Milrose in person, as it were, might have marked the unexpectedness of a compliment from Woollett, and Strether for his part, felt once more like Woollett in person.

The Ambassadors 2003

Alyosha ran to the washing-stand, wetted the towel, persuaded

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

There was no other token of her personality about the room, unless it showed itself in the scrupulous neatness of the scant articles of furniture: a washing-stand, two chairs, a small writing-desk, and the little table near the bed.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987