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Examples
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Not only did the houses I investigated have no bath-tubs, but I learned that there were no bath-tubs in all the thousands of houses
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The head valet has requested forty-seven more pots of boot-blacking, and the housekeeper requires twenty-two additional bath-tubs.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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The head valet has requested forty-seven more pots of boot-blacking, and the housekeeper requires twenty-two additional bath-tubs.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs; put his nose into the ink on a writing-table, and burnt it on the end of the big man's cigar, for he climbed up in the big man's lap to see how writing was done.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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New York family playing at life primeval with the co-operation of porcelain bath-tubs, a French _chef_, and electric light.
Judith of the Plains Marie Manning
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Most bath-tubs -- all in our own city houses -- are too capacious, and too broad for their depth.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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Some of these pages we should prefer to see treated differently, as they do detract from the illustrations which they face, and they are sprinkled full of water-closets, radiators, bath-tubs, and various other building appliances not especially artistic in their suggestiveness.
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When the Red Cap left him, after showing him the wash rooms, the tubs for scrubbing clothes, the steam dryers, the bath-tubs, the lunch room, Tyler looked after him regretfully.
Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926
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"Patent bath-tubs!" behind her fan, and it pleased her to tell people that her treasure of a secretary had the finest blood in the world in her veins.
Mother Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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I wish we'd either stop coming here in the summer or else get a house with two bath-tubs.
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