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water closets

n. (plural of water closet English)

Usage examples of "water closets".

Chesterton House, by contrast, was a fine new building, plumbed for water closets and heated with coal stoves.

Some of us who were engineers arranged wires on the handles of all the water closets on each floor.

Gorman was a compassionate man who cared for his wards, bleeding them when required, lancing abscesses, dispensing treatment and advice on lacerations, blisters and purges, also overseeing the spreading of lime chloride in the water closets, the laundering of clothes and the scouring of the urine tubs.

Their talk was eclectic, ranging freely from the wholesale price of pastel-colored water closets to the probĀ­.

Their talk was eclectic, ranging freely from the wholesale price of pastel-colored water closets to the problems of installing plumbing in a new housing development on Long Island that was surrounded by unsewered streets.

He had an original approach to everything, from the mechanics of human speech to windmills to water closets to a hydrogen/oxygen rocket motor.

Granted, the indoor water closets at the Collegium were fine things, but not as a place for an extended stay.

Room lights, water closets, running water, even drains that magically whisked away garbage were alien to him, as was the inhabitants' casual use of magic.

Simon Jay, the gentle, bemused owner of the apartment, who had lived there happily for thirty years with his wife, Ada, had raised his children in these rooms, toilet-trained them on these very water closets, and had found every day of his occupancy a simple and unqualified delight.

Hell, figure out a way to get plumbing and running water, with no pipe and no lead and no water closets and no Portland cement.

The water closets and hand basins which were supposed to be in stock in San Jose (it now appears) do not even exist and we must wait until the factory again makes a run of that color.