Even the bedroom feuds were forgotten: night after night the "House of Lords" left the "Dogs' Home" in undisturbed tranquillity, and the occupants of the "Main-top" retired to rest without even putting a washstand against their door.

Mrs. Corbett showed her how to make a combined washstand and clothes press out of two soap boxes, how to make a wardrobe out of the head of the bed, and set the twin sailors at the construction of a cookhouse where the stove could be put.

It was a low-studded chamber, with three windows looking out to the sea, the wide fireplace was open, filled with boughs of fragrant hemlock; the smooth yellow floor with its coolness and sweet cleanliness invited you to enter; there were round braided mats spread before the bureau and rude washstand, and more pretentious ones in size and beauty were laid in front of the red, high-posted bedstead and over the brick hearth.

The hangings adorning it were yellow; and a bedstead, a washstand, and a wardrobe, all of thuya, had been crowded into it.

She went to the ugly stationary washstand and bent over it, while the maid kept her hair from her face.

He had found a timetable or syllabus for the day's doings, over Julia's washstand.

I left it on the washstand, and there's best part of a thousand pounds in it.

I left it on the washstand, and there's best part of a thousand pounds in it.

To help compose his thoughts he went to the washstand and bathed his hot face.

"Take the hot water bottle out of the washstand," she directed, without moving.

They had saved a half-charred washstand, a scorched mattress, a clock and a few articles of women's wear; and these they had piled in a mound on the edge of the road.

[Illustration: "Hadn't you better see about making yourself presentable, Hardy?"] "Thanks," said the other, with alacrity, as he took off his coat and crossed over to the little washstand.

It was a small, bare, whitewashed room, with a narrow cot, a washstand, a bureau, and two extraordinary chairsa huge one that rocked on damaged springs, enclosed in plaited leather like the case of an accordion, and one that had been a rocker, but stood unevenly on its diminished legs.

He dragged himself up, went to his washstand, and dipped his wincing face into the warmish, stale water.

This recognition of my services, together with my little savings (restored, my dear Martin, to the washstand), will make me pretty comfortable in my old age, and leave a competence for my widow.

Over the straw matting, that soon grows shabby in a hotel, she had laid a large, nicely-bound square of soft, green carpet, in a little mossy pattern, that covered the middle of the floor, and was held tidily in place by a foot of the bedstead and two forward ones each of the table and washstand.

Might I push up the washstand to get on to?" "Suppose you lay it in the fireplace?

" He pointed to the washstand, and motioned me to obey him directly, and I have little doubt that he would have knocked me down, had I hesitated.

Julia put the candle on the washstand.

She was very weakso weak that she could hardly stand up at the washstand; and the maid had to sponge her face and neck.

It was the washstand really but the effect was awful.

She dipped warm water out of the reservoir for him and hung a fresh towel on the nail above the washstand in the corner, and seemed about to leave him again.

A stove stood at the end facing the doorway, and beside the stove a closed washstand of polished teak.

Then with a quick series of movements, reaching forward as soon as the kettle boiled, she filled the teapot, emptied the rest of the boiling water into the flashing nickel basin of the washstand, set down the kettle, turned and shut a cold-water tap, and invited the children to wash before supping.

"And the glass is pinned up with nice yellow paper; and here is a damask napkin fastened to the wall behind the washstand.