"Ross," she began, settling against the little handbasin and crossing her arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles of Pern, First Fall]

"Ross, " she began, settling against the little handbasin and crossing her arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fall]

Next to the toilet on the far wall was an ordinary porcelain handbasin with two taps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6 - We Meet the Comrades] Reference

The bed it's self was fixed to the wall with mason's rag-bolts and the handbasin was metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Striker Portfolio]

The walls close to bathroom fittings (handbasin, shower, bath) must without fail be rendered or tiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Bent-kneed, he hobbled to the handbasin and opened the small cabinet above that contained the medical kit.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fall]

The tiny handbasin was practically useless except as something on which to stand to look out of the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4 - Awaiting-Trial] Reference

It contained the narrow bed on which he was lying, a wardrobe, chair and nothing else, not even a handbasin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Dentist]

He washed and shaved at the handbasin, taking a childish pleasure in deciding to have neither shower nor bath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Charming Man]

They didn't like you to have access to sharp things here and the beaker above the handbasin was made of soft plastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Striker Portfolio]

Iron bed, metal handbasin, spotlights in a low ceiling: there were a lot of these lights about the place, all the better to see you with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Striker Portfolio]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2 - Underground] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northlight]

Though there was a proper bathroom downstairs, this upper floor had nothing but a handbasin in the corner of the bedroom, with one tap, and a few dirty towels lying around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret in Montmartre]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Dentist]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold Kroto - Autobiography] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mandarin Cypher]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiller Meridian]

Lord Fleetwood ordered the waiter to bring a handbasin and towel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

The same colours have been used in the shower room, which has a tiled shower cubicle with bi-fold glass doors, a handbasin and wc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Isle of Wight News] Reference

They even forbid me from having a bar of soap on the handbasin in my consulting room because they believe it can harbour germs, despite the lack of any evidence to prove it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

That night we rested, or rather tarried at a grove some miles beyond, and there partook of the miseries so often jocosely portrayed, of bedchambers for twelve, a milk dish for universal handbasin, and expectations that you would use and lend your "hankercher" for a towel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer on the Lakes, in 1843] Reference

She scurried on into the ladies’ room and leaned against the handbasin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Scriptwriter]