The fact is, that both musk and ambergris contain a substance which clings pertinaciously to woven fabrics, and not being soluble in weak alkaline lyes, is still found upon the material after passing through the lavatory ordeal.
All the preceding preparations are used in the lavatory process as substitutes for soap, and to "render the skin pliant, soft, and fair!
With the kitchen, dining room, living room and a lavatory on the ground floor there is comparatively little need of running up and downstairs, even when there are young children in the family.
Lavatory--It is well to have additional lavatory on ground floor to save steps.
It was originally a portion of the old kitchen, the remainder of it being taken for a lavatory and passageway.
At the rear, the old kitchen was converted into a most attractive hallway and stairway, with closets and lavatory located at the farther side.
Some people like running water in their bedrooms, and a private lavatory is certain to be appreciated by visitors.
The servers then went to the lavatory and washed their hands in preparation for their own meal.
This was the common position for the refectory, with the lavatoryclose at hand, and the aumbries or cupboards for the towels, etc.
The refectorian was to be blamed if the lavatory was not kept clean, or if grit or dirt was allowed to collect in the washing-trough.
They had to be in the refectory ready to serve at meal times, and before all refections they were to see that the lavatory was prepared for the brethren.
He had to keep in the lavatory a supply of sand and a whetstone for the brethren to use in scouring and sharpening their knives.
The first duty of the monks on coming into the cloister was to proceed to the lavatory to wash their hands again--a not wholly unnecessary proceeding in the days when forks were unknown, and fingers supplied their place at table.
To their great relief they heard them enter the lavatory about ten minutes after.
He had only to leave the lavatory door open, and stand at the top of the staircase, and he then commanded for a great distance the only avenue, in which danger was expected.
Carter, the school-servant, didn't seem to have noticed that the lavatory door was unlocked, and Mr Harley never alluded again to his disturbance in the night.
Adjoining was a rest-room with six or eight beds, and a lavatory large enough for several men simultaneously to wash off the dust of their long journey.
Every cot was as neat as a new hospital's in the second year of the war, and there was an immense lavatoryon each floor.
He had a disciple from Borgo a Buggiano, called Il Buggiano, who made the lavatory of the Sacristy of S.
At this moment there sprang up from a mass of confused memories the Berlin Lavatory and "Friend Martin" (as the unfortunate doctor was called), pursued by this stranger.
It was as follows:--I entered a lavatory near the Linden Avenue one evening, and saw beside me a bare-headed man of a questionable and strange appearance.
In all modern houses of size there are two rooms on the entrance floor, built sometimes as dressing-rooms and nothing else, but more often they are small reception rooms, each with a lavatory off of it.
In the lavatory there must be fresh soap and plenty of small hand towels.
Hutchins, the driver, hears that he may probably be given charge of a lavatory at one of the stations.
The thought of swabbing down a lavatory and taking pennies all day is poisoning him.
A horse was necessary for an Indian sketch on the same bill in which the comedy sketch was played, and the recess by the lavatory was found to be the only safe place to stable the horse.
Only last year, a firm employing hundreds of men and a dozen women, had no separate lavatory for the women.
So superior to human exigencies seemed these dignified men, that the subject oflavatory accommodation for young women, mewed up from 9 to 1 and from 2 to 5.
The door of the ladies' lavatory was therefore nailed up for the week.
If there's any of that whiskey left that we found on the shelf in the lavatory yesterday morning, I'm going to help myself to some more of it.
And we both left the library and went upstairs, where Holmes rapidly changed his clothes and washed off the make-up in the lavatory nearby.
Other windows high up in our lavatory looked down over roofs on to this section.
The sliding-door into the lavatory stirred a little, and then a little more, and was finally drawn back for the space of about twenty inches.
After about a moment, the head was withdrawn and the door of the lavatory replaced.
Divesting himself of his cloak, which might have interfered with the freedom of his action, he entered the lavatory and paused to listen.
The lamp in the lavatory was unshaded, and in the lighted aperture thus disclosed Mr. Rolles could see the head of Mr. Vandeleur in an attitude of deep attention.
A study of the illustrations will show clearly how the lavatory has been improved.
For instance, in a marble lavatory constructed by using one piece for the top, another for the bowl, and still another for the back, filth accumulated at every joint and seam.
About 1902 the iron-enamelled lavatory appeared on the market and drove all other kinds from the market at once.
The marble stands were absorbent and were made with three parts, top, back, and bowl; the enamelled ironlavatory is made all in one piece of material non-absorbent.
On the second floor the 1-1/4-inch pipes leading from the lavatory and bath traps come into it.
They were in the lavatory hastily fixing up for tea, almost late but thankful to be within the gates before the gong sounded.
Jane was at the lavatory door now but she did not at once enter.
I bought that lavatory from you in person, direct, about 1942--or just about the time the Government stopped your selling to the proletariat.
It would appear that the center part of this apartment served as a tepidarium, having a cold waterlavatory in four of its corners.
The moment she turned the corner, Eleanor darted out of the lavatory and fled down the corridor, just as the bell rang for the end of the period.
Quick as a flash she flung open the door of the little lavatory just outside the office and concealed herself just as a girl turned from the main corridor into the short passage leading to the principal's office.
A lavatory must be placed in the frigidarium when used as the dressing room.
Off a landing on the staircase are a lavatoryand w.
I often say to him when he comes home a bit grumblified that his profession is as bad as a miner's, and they only does eight hours, whereas in his lavatory they does twelve.
I'm not considered very particular, but when a station consists of nothing but a signal-box and a lavatory and no platform, I don't call it a station.
Her husband's a lavatory attendant, and, being shut up all day underground, he grumbles a lot when he comes home, and of course his wife has to suffer for it.
Carter, the school servant, didn't seem to have noticed that the lavatory door was unlocked, and Mr. Harley never alluded again to his disturbance in the night.
He had only to leave the lavatory door open; and stand at the top of the staircase, and he then commanded for a great distance the only avenue in which danger was expected.
This lavatory is of course an insertion, probably of the fifteenth century; indeed the whole of this part of the wall has been much repaired with limestone.
To the right of this entrance is a square-headed lavatory with a projecting rectangular basin and a hole knocked through into the lobby behind.
It was twelve feet square, and contained no furniture except a number of shelves, a lavatory in one corner, and a pallet on the floor.
However, seeing a curtain at the farther end of the room, I drew it aside, and found, as I expected, a fixed lavatory in an alcove of perhaps four feet deep by five in width.
The right hand wall proved similar to the matchboarding of the lavatory as far as the casual eye or touch was concerned, but I saw at once it was a door.
That cupboard under the lavatory is very handy, but what a snare for a careless servant!
