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I gulped half the scalding drink and poured the rest into the hand-basin.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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The hand-basin in the corner was an immense luxury (Even the young lords in Christchurch depended on the legs of the scouts for their supply of hot water.) and enabled me to set up a small laboratory in my sitting room.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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Cambridge, in Elizabeth's time, his guardian provided him with a deal table covered with green baize, a truckle-bed, half a dozen chairs, and a wash hand-basin.
Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Annie H Ryder
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The shallow concave of a hand-basin is as the shadow of the bottomless well.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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Ned saw that what he had taken for white flannel in the dim candle-light was white linen, guileless of starch, evidently washed in a hand-basin at night and left to dry over a chair till morning.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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I am getting quite good at having a bath in a tin hand-basin, but to-morrow I shall soak in a great vat, which was once used for washing clothes.
Letters from France Isaac Alexander Mack
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The soap in the marble hand-basin was already stained with Rose Madder.
Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935
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Then she saw a hand-basin with taps for hot and cold water.
Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933
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There were monogramed toilet appointments beautiful to see; a leather-cased carriage clock, a shelf full of books that looked fascinating; towels; tiny rugs; a light above the hand-basin, and another to switch on above the bunk ....
Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933
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A hand-basin in the kitchen sink or on the back-porch bench sufficed.
Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926
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