water-closets

For a moment he was tempted to take it into one of the water-closets and read it at once.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

For a moment he was tempted to take it into one of the water-closets and read it at once.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

A few pages on, factories with five or more employees were ordered to be kept free “from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance,” and told to provide “water-closets, earth-closets, or privies” for employees.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

A few pages on, factories with five or more employees were ordered to be kept free “from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance,” and told to provide “water-closets, earth-closets, or privies” for employees.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

A few pages on, factories with five or more employees were ordered to be kept free “from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance,” and told to provide “water-closets, earth-closets, or privies” for employees.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Now for instance there was a man writing quite openly in one of the respectable weeklies about water-closets.

Mrs. Dalloway 2003

I must accompany her into a little pavilion covered in a green trellis, not unlike one of the disused toll-houses of old Paris, in which had recently been installed what in England they call a lavatory but in France, by an ill-informed piece of anglomania, ‘water-closets.’

Within a Budding Grove 2003

Sylvester could see no reason "why the perfect parallel motion should not be employed with equal advantage in the construction of ordinary water-closets."

Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960

For a moment he was tempted to take it into one of the water-closets and read it at once.

Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

The water-closets for the whole vast establishment are a range of stalls without doors, and accessible not only from the building, but even from the street.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various