He has his head in a handbasin and is clutching the taps in the school washroom while the prefects take it in turns to beat him for his lack of Christian reverence. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2003)
On those occasions (usually during a party at your house) when the handbasin tap is closed so tightly that you cannot turn it back on, you know the last person to use the washroom never had a Meccano set. ❋ Unknown (1997)
It fell off the wall into the handbasin, and cracked the porcelain of the handbasin before sending large shards of glass from its shattered glass doors onto the bathroom fl oor. ❋ Beaton, M. C. (1997)
It contained the narrow bed on which he was lying, a wardrobe, chair and nothing else, not even a handbasin. ❋ Beaton, M. C. (1997)
The walls close to bathroom fittings (handbasin, shower, bath) must without fail be rendered or tiled. ❋ Unknown (1995)
He washed and shaved at the handbasin, taking a childish pleasure in deciding to have neither shower nor bath. ❋ Beaton, M. C. (1994)
"Ross," she began, settling against the little handbasin and crossing her arms. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1993)
Bent-kneed, he hobbled to the handbasin and opened the small cabinet above that contained the medical kit. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1993)
When I was taken back there under escort I'd told Colonel Belyak to give me fifteen minutes before he sent his troops in but it hadn't taken that long to get into the uniform, and I'd stowed my clothes under the handbasin in the bathroom and was down the stairs before the headlights of the vehicles outside came flooding through the windows and I heard a chorus of shouted commands. ❋ Hall, Adam (1993)
"Ross, " she began, settling against the little handbasin and crossing her arms. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1993)
The tiny handbasin was practically useless except as something on which to stand to look out of the window. ❋ Unknown (1987)
Next to the toilet on the far wall was an ordinary porcelain handbasin with two taps. ❋ Unknown (1987)
It was a small, sparsely-furnished room but with a window for ventilation, a light for working at night and a handbasin for washing ink off our hands. ❋ Unknown (1987)
I'd left it in a bundle across the tiny marbled handbasin and it caught on one of the taps but I freed it by whip action and pulled it through the window. ❋ Hall, Adam, 1920- (1985)
She sat me on a wicker linen-basket in a bathroom on the first floor, with my wrist across the edge of the cracked handbasin, and used running water and a pair of eyebrow tweezers while I looked at the two rust stains running down beneath the taps, and the toothbrush and Lifebuoy soap and the bottle of black hair dye, one of Mr Chiang's little secrets. ❋ Hall, Adam (1975)
This character, before he goes, sees the condition of the wig and cleans the stains off at the handbasin there and hitches it over the lamp like we found it with that blasted tiara on it. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1972)
