waste-pipe

He seemed to see a vision of London, vast and ruinous, city of a million dustbins, and mixed up with it was a picture of Mrs Parsons, a woman with lined face and wispy hair, fiddling helplessly with a blocked waste-pipe.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

He seemed to see a vision of London, vast and ruinous, city of a million dustbins, and mixed up with it was a picture of Mrs Parsons, a woman with lined face and wispy hair, fiddling helplessly with a blocked waste-pipe.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

Passing up a horrible squalid side-alley, saw a woman, youngish but very pale and with the usual draggled exhausted look, kneeling by the gutter outside a house and poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe, which was blocked.

Revisiting Orwell's Wigan Pier 1997

The space revealed was large enough for two or three bodies but contained only dust, a heap of wood shavings, and a wet patch where the waste-pipe had been leaking.

Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984

He seemed to see a vision of London, vast and ruinous, city of a million dustbins, and mixed up with it was a picture of Mrs Parsons, a woman with lined face and wispy hair, fiddling helplessly with a blocked waste-pipe.

Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

The sizes used and the methods employed to vent the waste-pipe systems are the same as in cast-iron work.

Elements of Plumbing Samuel Edward Dibble

A bulge is given to the circle towards one corner of the square, at which the waste-pipe will be situated.

Things To Make Archibald Williams

The non-technical reader knows that it is that vapor which, for instance, pervades the kitchen, which issues from every cooking vessel and waste-pipe, and is always white and visible, and moist and warm.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

Traps will not be permitted on main, vertical, soil or waste-pipe lines.

Elements of Plumbing Samuel Edward Dibble