Its nearest approach to an altar was a washstand with hot and cold running water.
Then he staggered to the washstand and stuck his head, which felt dizzy, deep down into the basin.
If you dream you surely don't see the cupboard and the clothes rack and the washstand and the wall, and you don't hear the clock ticking and father snoring downstairs and the wind howling in the pines outside.
I've tacked up two thick towels back of her washstand and put a mat under her slop-jar; but children are awful hard on furniture.
They're going in a glass pitcher," said Rebecca, turning to the washstandas she tried to control her voice and stop the tears that sprang to her eyes.
Wilbur again, the same trembling anxiety in his voice, as he handed Jimmie Dale the towels and motioned toward a washstand in the corner of the room.
His sudden irrepressible movement has knocked the tumbler from the little iron washstand at his elbow.
But perhaps he has been sluicing his head in the washstand basin, thinks the Chaplain.
There are two camp-beds in the small sleeping-place, and a washstand and a folding-chair.
A flask of brandy--a precious restorative treasured for use in such desperate need as this--stands with a tumbler and a jug of water on the camp washstand that is between the two cot-beds.
Every morning after breakfast he would go into his "Parlors" as usual and potter about his instruments, his dental engine, and his washstand in the corner behind his screen where he made his moulds.
As he made his plaster-of-paris moulds at the washstand in the corner behind the screen he turned over in his mind all that had happened, all that had been said at the previous sitting.
The huge double bed sprawled over nearly a fourth of the available space; the angles of Trina's trunk and the washstand projected into the room from the walls, and barked shins and scraped elbows.
Opposite the window the closet door stood ajar, while in the corner across from the bed was a tiny washstand with two clean towels.
There was a washstand behind the screen in the corner where he manufactured his moulds.
It contained a bed, three cane-seated chairs, and a wooden washstand with its washbowl and pitcher.
In one comer was a washstand containing a basin and a pitcher of water.
There was nothing on the bedstead but a spring mattress and comforter, the carpet was cheap and the chairs, washstand and other articles were of the most common kind.
Now, right in the middle of the floor, under a washstand or some other piece of furniture, the key was found, and of all the men in the world to find it who should it be but an officer who had been a trunkmaker who found it.
I should like to put the new set on the washstand before I tell her of the accident.
Why shouldn't a washstand be just as attractively furnished as a dressing-table?
The French peasants make an apple-green pottery that is delightful for a washstand set.
Just because they have been so ugly we condemn them to eternal ugliness, but it is quite possible to make the washstand interesting to look upon as well as serviceable.
I think that in country houses where there is not a bathroom with each bedroom there should be a very good washstand provided for each guest.
An iron bedstead, a worktable, some washstand fixtures.
The perfumes you'll find on thewashstand in your cabin were produced from the oozings of marine plants.
Of course she could push the washstand to the door and climb up and slip through the transom, but Mr. Pracht would catch her before she had dropped down on the other side.
Here was the bed, and over there against the wall was an old washstand and a huge wardrobe, and against the other wall was an old-fashioned bureau.
With that he stripped down the counterpane, lifted the water-jug from the washstand and emptied its contents over the mattresses, and when the pool of water had been absorbed, replaced the covering and arranged the bed as before.
The towel that hung over the washstandwas as black as the ground.
The good woman took him to thewashstand and supplied his needs.
Above the washstand was a rack with glasses and a carafe.
On the washstandwas his mug of cocoa, and on top of the mug two thick sandwiches of bread and meat.
The washstand can be four spools quite close together covered with a piece of paper.
You can glue the tops on the table and washstand and the mirror on the bureau also; though this is not necessary, for if you are careful and do not knock against the furniture it will remain secure.
She was always making lace, and she'd brought along a lot she made--the bottom drawer of the washstand was full of it.
Mis' Bingy opened thewashstand drawer and took out what she had, tied up in a pillow case.
You had only to look at the crocheted mats--even those on the washstand under the white-and-gold ewer and other utensils.
She hesitated, and then went up to the washstand and kissed a part of his cheek that was not soapy.
My washstand consisted of a board about three feet long, resting on legs formed by driving sticks into the ground until they held it at about the proper height from the floor.
On the washstand I found a small tin ewer and a small tin basin to match, and I dabbed myself gingerly in the cold, stale water.
There were other articles on the washstand that claimed the girl's notice; but it was to the bottle labeled "Walnut Stain" that her gaze returned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "washstand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
