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Usage examples of "wash-hand basin".
Once inside, he discovered that it was a bathroom merely in the euphemistic application of the term, containing as it did only a toilet and a minuscule wash-hand basin.
Parlabane turned on both taps and put the plug down in the wash-hand basin, the splashing sound and his humming covering the noise of him removing the 9mm Beretta automatic from the bag, clicking off the safety and chambering the first round, as Larry had taught him on the couple of occasions he had taken him down to the range.
On the table before the lieutenant was a white wash-hand basin, nearly half full of burgoo, a composition of boiled oatmeal and water, very wholesome, and very hot.
The warden of this establishment, though astonished to find anyone travelling on holiday in late October, even in a car, was willing to provide a reasonably furnished cubicle with a modern mattress on the bed and a wash-hand basin where the hot tap provided scalding water.