How To Use Basin In A Sentence

Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
The blacksmith pounded an iron sheet out to a wash-basin.
Spoon the mixture into a pudding basin and chill for at least two hours.
The fact that these rocks were not supplying detritus to the sedimentary basin is consistent with the geological observation that they always appear covered by the younger deposits, with little or no discontinuity until the Devonian.
Each evening, before retiring, the careful wife sees that a hocho, or kitchen knife, is laid upon the kitchen floor, and covered with a kanadarai, or brazen wash - basin, on the upturned bottom of which is placed a single straw sandal, of the noiseless sort called zori, also turned upside down. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series

on what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?
Human activities, such as land-use change, water storage, interbasin transfers, and irrigation and drainage, influence the hydrological cycle in many river basins (see Chapter 4) [165]. Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 6
We should be basing our decisions on solid facts, not inclinations and hunches.
In addition, a huge thickness of foredeep clastic rock in southern foreland basin is a favorable place of exploration of deep-basin gas and carbon dioxide gas pools.
The Brushy Basin sediments contain numerous chalcedony pseudomorph-after-barite concretions that range to more than 30 cm in diameter.
During his four-month stay in the hospital, Mrs Gearon-Simm claimed cleaners failed to mop floors and clean basins and furniture.
The fully tiled en suite bathroom includes an electric shower, wash basin set in a ceramic storage unit and a toilet.
The oil is trapped in minuscule cells of porous subsurface rocks in so-called sedimentary basins. What Lies Below?
What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
The Laramie Basin ecoregion is a wide intermontane valley, dominated by mixed-grass prairie. Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
The family bathroom has a green suite comprising a bath, pedestal hand basin, toilet and step-in shower.
In time, as the Ecca Sea filled with sediment and the deltas prograded basinward, large tracts of river channels and floodplains emerged.
So, to the people of Basingstoke, and all who came along and supported the event - give yourselves a big pat on the back.
I teach media studies to 11- to 16-year-olds in Basingstoke, and I find that although I have to buy all of the dailies when I talk to my students about newspapers, I quickly discard the others. Good to Meet You: Keith Langton
Basing V Corps in CONUS provides another heavy corps uncommitted to any theater, thus enhancing the ability to respond to two major theater wars (MTWs).
This is fully tiled in white and fitted with a pedestal wash hand basin, bidet and shower unit.
The company is headed by managing director Martin Baker and employs a workforce of 60 in Grafton Way, Basingstoke.
Their characteristic form is that of a long, deep, narrow bay with steep rock walls and basined floor. The Elements of Geology
Therefore, the small amounts of copper were almost certainly added deliberately to harden the alloy without significantly debasing the silver.
He found some disagreeable remnants — a watery stew, cold and sodden; a basin half-full of some kind of tinned soup; a chill suet pudding put away on a shelf. The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club
He remembers his first governess, Miss Arkell, a grey-haired lady with traces of beard upon her large flat face and a black dress of what he calls bombasine.
The Park overlies a segment of a 400 km long southwest-trending fossil reef that surrounds the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas which was a small reef-fringed inland sea in Permian times 280-250 mya. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, United States
Pondering the wisdom of basing a key joke on an obscure music reference that most people won't understand, I wander back downstairs to the lounge.
The two peaks in the distribution represent the continental platforms and the ocean basins.
The Park consists of two geomorphic units: rift valley volcanic mountains and Congo basin low highlands. Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
The burial history of the sediments can be ascertained by the study of their varying thickness; and the petrography of the sediments reveals their diagenetic history and the movement of meteoric and pore waters through the basin.
Otherwise dump the contents of the crocks or vat into food-grade plastic mesh bags or cheesecloth and squeeze out as much wine as you can into a clean basin.
Each of the presenters at the ICPRB conference, Human Influences on the Biology of the Potomac River, gave the basin a letter grade for different aspects of the river, based on their expertise.
This ecoregion is a broad arid intermontane basin interrupted by hills and low mountains and dominated by grasslands and shrublands. Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
Before hopping my way unsteadily to the bathroom where I managed to bend myself in ways I never thought possible to get my foot into the basin and under the cold tap!
The saltbush Atriplex halimus is a chenopodiaceous plant well adapted to dry saline habitats and widely distributed in the Mediterranean Basin.
In the kitchen, drain at the draincock Use a bath/basin spanner to undo the nut on the tap connector.
It has a bath with shower attachment, a toilet, two hand basins, bidet, cabinets with mirrored doors.
The basin pipes were tampered with and the vandals squirted cleaning fluid all over the brand new carpets.
I mean, granted, Dave is not the most stable person in the world - no one who's done that much freebasing can be, really.
Line a 2-litre pudding basin with clingfilm and cover its base and sides with overlapping brioche slices. Times, Sunday Times
Rossing-type high tonnage low-grade uranium as well as classic vein-type models may be considered in association with numerous anatexis granites occurring within paragneisses of the LaGuiche Basin. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
As it sways precariously beneath the five-tonner, a small priesthood of caretakers will guide it to a washbasin and gently remove the ravages of worship and travel. Roy and His Rock
In South America the sacred use of the psychedelic ayahuasca has moved from the native populations of the Amazon Basin into the urban centers where it is the central sacrament in their religious praxis.
A modified hypsometric curve can be used to help describe the relationships between drainage, alluvial and shallow marine basins.
And she was from Basingstoke, which is nothing to be ashamed of. Excerpt: The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Fill the basin with the cake mixture.
The sediments comprise silts, sand, gravel and, often lenticular, silty clay, comparable with similar sediments in the Petrockstowc basin, where the bulk of the deposits are Eocene.
Phelps was accused of failing to “demean himself” (= behave) properly, but he has certainly succeeded, then and since then, in demeaning (= debasing) himself. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Disbarment of Fred Phelps
My thoughts and ramblings were put on hold as the toothsome scent of bacon and omelets (the mystery goo in the basin) filtered into my room, permeating throughout the air and reaching my nostrils.
Kolymba is believed to be a Minoan dock basin, and it may be that Minoan ships were built and repaired here.
The bed, the mirror, the white jug and basin gleam like the sky outside. Bliss, and Other Stories
Aedes albopictus and potential for involvement in arbovirus cycles in the Mediterranean basin. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
It is not known whether the thrusts and reverse faults represent reactivated extensional basement structures or formed entirely during basin inversion.
First visit poor, wet dirty floor in spite of dirty wash basins and toilet pans.
Khotan (Li-yul) was a Buddhist kingdom on the Silk Route along the southwestern rim of the Tarim Basin, just north of western Tibet. A Survey of Tibetan History �� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet
By the basin, under a small portico cut in the solid wall, sat a priest, old, bearded, wrinkled, cowled-never being more perfectly eremitish. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
He complained about it that night while allegedly freebasing cocaine.
The water tinkled as it flowed down into the silver-lined basins at the bottom of the fountains.
Four Public Workshops lead by Dr de Freitas came from the Glossop Lecture on the following topics: The London Basin, Failure in mature landslides, Scale and its use in geotechnics and, The geotechnical significance of Boundary Layers of particles. Edie.net - Latest News
Single bamboo canes are also used as rhythm sticks in many parts of the world, including Polynesia and the Amazon Basin.
Certain ancient strata, known as the Devonian black shale, occupying the Ohio valley and the neighbouring parts of North America to the east and north of that basin, appear to be accumulations which were made beneath an ancient Sargassum sea. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
After entering the basin she had to negotiate the lock, a narrow channel which connected the basin to the dock proper.
In what could be described as the oddest pairing since the alleged Eminem/Kim Basinger fling, TMZ. com reports that Chelsea Handler and 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) were spotted getting "hot and heavy" at a New Orleans club Sunday night. Rumor Mill: Chelsea Handler dating 50 Cent?
Selenite mostly formed in shallow marginal settings and was redeposited into a small remnant basin with a depocentre near the present synclinal axis.
Some companies are basing product development on polling consumers on their preferences in products, flavors, colors and other personal choices.
Aerial photogrammetry in northern Foxe Basin in early to mid-August of 1996 to 1999 found that a much higher than expected proportion of the bowheads summering there were calves and subadults.
Smear 50g melted butter around a pudding basin. Times, Sunday Times
The cook mixed the pudding in a basin.
_ -- The whole formation is Archean and Primary (with a few modern plutonic outbursts), and chiefly consists of granite, felspar, quartz, gneiss, schists, amphibolite and other Archean rocks, with Primary sandstones and limestones in the basin of Lake Nyasa (a great rift depression), the river Shiré, and the regions within the northern watershed of the Zambezi river. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
That of the Wessex Basin in southern England accumulated in the northwestern reaches of the Anglo-Paris Basin, an epicontinental sea formed at the junction of the Tethyan, Boreal and Atlantic realms.
There was also a sort of faux alligator skin tiling around the basin. Times, Sunday Times
Then they brought an ewer and basin of gold, and he washed his right hand and abode in the gladdest of life and the most honourable. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The cook mixed the pudding in a basin.
The results from the model can be used to answer questions relating to the long-term behaviour of the river basin.
Line a 2-litre pudding basin with clingfilm and cover its base and sides with overlapping brioche slices. Times, Sunday Times
What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks. CHAPTER 20
Tullow, which owns 100% of three oil licenses covering Uganda's Lake Albert basin, wants to bring Total and or Cnooc into the country to help with the development of more than a billion barrels of oil discovered there. Tullow, Uganda Agree on Sale Terms
Since the 1960s, well-educated and often well-born men and women have followed Murdoch and made money in newspapers, the arts and television by debasing popular taste. A chance to drag ourselves out of the gutter | Nick Cohen
Callisto's surface is icy and has some large impact craters and basins surrounded by concentric rings.
Between the outer-arc ridge and the volcanic arc a forearc basin may be formed.
A must-see for canal boat fans, it has many historic narrowboats moored in the basin. Readers' tips: winter family days out
A specimen from the replacement deposits of the Basin vein consists of several interlocking chalcopyrite crystals intergrown with clear quartz crystals.
_Potassium_ may be determined by precipitation as potassium platino-chloride thus: -- Dissolve 0.5 gramme in a small quantity (say 10 c.c.) of water, and carefully acidulate with hydrochloric acid, evaporate the resultant liquor to dryness in a tared platinum basin, and heat the residue gradually to dull redness. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
Can't comment on the ladies, but the gents did not smell very fresh and lacked a plug to the hand basin.
Its white suite includes a bath with overhead electric shower and a wash hand basin with vanity unit.
These extend into the back-arc basin of the Andaman Sea where there is evidence of some divergent motion.
When we got home Harry Cat did the ‘Give me a treat, then’ dance on the counter top and Dolly the Mega-Cat sat on the drainer watching the tap drip into the basin.
The en suite bathroom is fully tiled in black and white and includes a wash hand basin, bidet, step-in shower unit and toilet.
MIE is involved in onshore oil production under shared contracts with PetroChina in three oilfields in the Songliao Basin in Heilongjiang, which is a border province connecting China and Russia. FinanceAsia
Irrespective of the mechanism initiating basin formation the amount of subsidence will be amplified by the weight of sediments which accumulate.
Areas such as Cambay basin, Krishna-Godavari basin and Assam-Arakan basin are considered as most prospective areas for shale gas exploration, Srivastava said. Daily News & Analysis
Moab is my washbasin, upon Edom I toss my sandal ; over Philistia I shout in triumph.
Seismic reflection data from NW James Ross Island show maximum dips of 15 to the SE in the subsurface, indicating that the steep dips are confined to a zone close to the basin margin.
The washbasin had a small chip.
On the floor of the basins lie deserts, lakes and swamps.
The Northern Lakes and Forests is a region of nutrient poor glacial soils, coniferous and northern hardwood forests, undulating till plains, morainal hills, broad lacustrine basins, and extensive sandy outwash plains. Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)
Spoon sponge mix between pudding basins. The Sun
From the lapse of time, and the action of the vapours, the inside walls are detached, and have covered the basin with great blocks of lithoid lavas. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Anyway, if you want to spend some time in a warm, moist climate, I would recommend a trip to the Congo Basin.
Eventually, basin shallowing allowed in situ precipitation of selenite in shallow lagoons and ponds near the basin depocentre.
In Basingstoke around 2,000 vehicles were stranded overnight on jammed roads. Times, Sunday Times
Geologists often talk about the "flexural" link between tectonic loads and sedimentary basins, but they rarely do the math. VersionTracker: Mac OS X
His bare feet disturbed the red dust of the path down to the granite-basined river, and tiny clouds puffed out on each side of the way at every footfall. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
The individual mare basins differ significantly in composition.
the landscape unit drawn diagrammatically illustrates the gentle rolling relief, with a peat-filled basin
This injection also identifies the lymphatic basins, nodal areas, and respective lymph draining sites that are considered to be at risk for metastases.
Sift the icing sugar and cocoa powder into a mixing basin. Times, Sunday Times
In general, the river basins that drain into this ecoregion are of high relief, therefore seasonally intense rainfall and highly erodable soils make them prone to erosion caused the removal of vegetation for agricultural practices, timber, fuelwood, and livestock grazing. Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves
Basing on the theory, reflectance oximetry and reflectance sensor are designed and developed.
The Quaternary biogenic gas reservoir in Qaidam Basin is provided with favorable conditions.
She took a pipkin from the hearth, where a small fire burned, though it was summer weather, as Dickie could see by the green tree-tops that swayed and moved outside in the sun, poured some gruel out of it into a silver basin. Harding's Luck
Chirk, chirk, chirk, it went, the sound of a spoon being rapidly whisked round a basin. The Invisible Man
The western section in the Congo basin is connected to it by a narrow corridor. Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
Spoon the mixture into a pudding basin and chill for at least two hours.
He was a man without a conscience, and so long as his own ends and the ends of his friends were served, he would never scruple to empty the woman's girnel or toom her last basin, and leave her no morsel of food or drink at the long-run. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
The end is near for a group of four Basingstoke post offices facing the axe, with two set to close this week and another following within a fortnight.
When we reached the top of the tower, I entered the room and found a mostly bare room that contained only one small bed and a washbasin.
Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
A similar, coeval flux of Pelagonian material has been recognized in the Mesohellenic molasse basin of northern Greece.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the population stood at a mere 5000, contained entirely within the Sydney basin.
The basins repeatedly filled with water, spiked with fluorescent pigment, which glowed a toxic green under the black Light, then emptied, in a slow, inexorable rhythm.
Recent work on Upper Cretaceous sequence stratigraphy in European basins has demonstrated that chalks provide valuable information on short- and long-term sea-level change.
This becomes a sort of folkloric knowledge, and it's what many people will be basing their impressions of the Smith case upon.
The causal theory of the basing relation is a very influential theory but counterexamples of the gypsy-lawyer style constitute a major objection to this kind of theory.
In addition, volcanic rocks and intrusions of this age are distributed widely around the western and southern perimeter of the basin.
In contrast, the f CO2 profile of Atlantic-origin waters shows that waters below 50 m in the Eurasian Basin are undersaturated and will take up atmospheric CO2 if moved onto the shelf by upwelling [15]. Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic
The degree of projection of the jaws is determined by the gnathic or alveolar index, which represents the proportion between the basialveolar and basinasal lengths, thus: basialveolar length X 100/basinasal length56 II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
The original baptismal basin was incorporated into the installation and water flows continually among the pieces of the new baptistery.
Surface exposures of Ncogene sedimentary rocks occur only along the edges of the basin.
In addition, it differs from C. magna in the absence of a closed talonid basin of the m3 and in the obtuse shape of the parastylc of M3.
The coalfield represents an erosional remnant of the South Wales coal basin preserved within the Variscan fold belt.
During the late Paleocene thermal maximum, the upwelling of low-oxygen intermediate Tethyan water into the epicontinental basin led to enhanced biological productivity and anoxia at the seafloor. Bürger and Cubasch: Are multiproxy climate reconstructions robust? « Climate Audit
Rapid ascent of hydrothermal fluids derived from shallow-metamorphic and deep-burial diagenetic settings is well known from many sedimentary basins.
These estimates do not include additional waters which could be used for irrigation if major interbasin transfer of water were undertaken. Water profile of India
The central goverment egocentrically allocated national resources basing on which clan one originated rather than need. Equitable Distribution of Resources Key to National Unity
Canada - Nova Scotia call for bids in 2009 The two parcels offered by Nova Scotia are located in the southwest region of the Sable subbasin. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
To their left, under a dome of palms, was a marble basin, on the edges of which four large swans of delftware emitted the water from their beaks. Bel Ami
Tree rings from 678 Great Basin bristlecone pines taken from the White Mountains, and Mount Washington and Pearl Peak, NV have shown scientists that rising temperatures are having a profound impact on the slowest growing, ancient pines on the planet. Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Ancient Pines by Reducing our Global Footprints
Basing a right to health care on an obligation to protect equality of opportunity is compatible with the sort of tiering the British have, but it does not require it, and it imposes some constraints on the kind of tiering allowed. Justice and Access to Health Care
An aquamanile comes with a bowl or a basin to collect the water.
It's a ample cylinder-shaped conduit basined with a bill attracter. Blogpulse Top Links
Pro-Ciénaga reports 114 fish and 98 mollusks, making this the third most important source of the country's fishing and hydrobiological resources, after the basins of the Orinoco and Magdalena Rivers. Magdalena-Santa Marta mangroves
And in the west of the basin, the plutonic hot fluid in the basement fracture zone may be the main influence factor of organic matter's maturation.
The province is situated within a broad elevated plateau between 1 and 2 km in height, and includes a large region of internal drainage: the Great Basin.
Then ships bearing news might reach Alexandria by the dozen -- that is, the greybeard added with a defiant glance at the daintily clad city gentleman -- if they were allowed to pass the Pharos or go through the Poseidon basin into the Eunostus. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
The occipitofrontal or longitudinal arc is measured from the nasion over the middle line of the vertex to the opisthion: while the basinasal length is the distance between the basion and the nasion. II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
It is a fine place to dream in, with falls, cascades, cool rocks lined with hypnum three inches thick; shaded with maple, dogwood, alder, willow; grand clumps of lady-ferns where no hand may touch them; light filtering through translucent leaves; oaks fifty feet high; lilies eight feet high in a filled lake basin near by, and the finest libocedrus groves and tallest ferns and goldenrods. The Yosemite
This is a very large catchment with a high rainfall and large swamps within the river basin.
ski-basing" - a combination of skiing and Base jumping in which you hurtle off the top of a mountain on skis, release them in mid-air and sail down the mountainside in a "wingsuit" like a flying squirrel, before finally deploying a parachute - which claimed his life last year: Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
The mattress of the basinet is usually a folded clean comfort slipped into a pillow slip; this is to be preferred to a feather pillow, as it is cooler and in every way better for the babe. The Mother and Her Child
Under the Caribbean Basin Initiative, the company will enjoy duty-free entry status into the United States, supplying them with fuel ethanol up to seven per cent of their requirements.
He grudged every moment of life sleep robbed him of, and before the clock had ceased its clattering he was head and ears in the washbasin and thrilling to the cold bite of the water. Chapter 16
The two peaks in the distribution represent the continental platforms and the ocean basins.
But access to the port basin lay through channels where the tide fell 32 feet twice daily.
There was one basin with a roller towel. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Basing her work on far-flung archives, Ms. Jasanoff takes us on a global voyage from North America to Europe, Africa and even India — and back again — as her subjects cross and recross the Atlantic in search of an elusive utopia. The Refugees Who Built an Empire
It stretches from the Atlantic shore through the whole width of Brazil into Peru, to the very foot of the Andes -- one vast extent of red sandstone, capped by a yellow-ochred clay; not only along the banks of the main river, but forming the sides of those of its tributaries, to their far-off sources, probably over the whole basin of the Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
The early Permian rifting in the North Atlantic involved siliciclastic sedimentation in extensional basins and widespread extrusive and intrusive magmatic activity.
A bathroom brand with a smart modern range of baths, basins, showers and brassware, plus a knack for novelty. Times, Sunday Times
Put simply it's huge: the en suite is comprised of a corner spa bath, two wash hand basins on cherry wood stands, a toilet, double pump shower and is fully tiled.
The art of sailing is defined, except on the open basins, by the skipper's ability to estimate from the water's surface patterns what the surrounding hills are doing to the wind.
As I carried considerable weight in my gown, about ten pounds of silver, our two revolvers, the telescope, our silver-lined tsamba basins and dry stockings for us both, Mr. Rijnhart cautioned me not to fall off, for with such impedimenta about me he could do nothing to save me. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
Her roof has the same shallow hip but is turned up like a basin with a butterfly profile.
In surrendering to the global capitalists, governments are themselves debasing democracy, making it quite useless for people to vote.
The water was even with the rim of the basin.
The method involves the steps of continuously flowing an influent into a treatment basin and continuously flowing an effluent out of the treatment basin into a clarifier.
Its coevolution in the upper Columbia River basin with another salmonid predator, the bull trout, and a large species of minnow, the northern pikeminnow, likely influenced its feeding habits in the course of evolutionary programming. Trout and Salmon of North America
There is a heated towel rail, a tiled floor and a pedestal handbasin.
Tahe oilfield in Tarim basin is characterized by multi-stage hydrocarbon generation, multi-channel migration and multi-stage petroleum accumulation.
Rent 9 1/2 Weeks to learn from Kim Basinger's striptease: the outfit, the moves, the music, the shy-cheeky-sexy attitude (just ignore the disturbing plot line).
The structural boundary and structural system of the Cenozoic basin are set up with the aid of experimental contrast and geological generalization method.
Not just a couple of bowls or a reclaimed teak table, but boats hewn from enormous logs are used as basins and baths. Times, Sunday Times
The oil and gas reservoirs with distinctive features were widely formed in the mud diapir structure belt because of the special geological conditions in Yinggehai Basin.
The white suite comprises a bath, pedestal wash basin and toilet.
He turned and left with the bottle on the sink counter and the basin in hand.
Great Basin, Nevada, covering of mineral deposits by lavas, 311-312 gold-silver ores, occurrence in a metallogenic province, 308 tungsten ores, 185 The Economic Aspect of Geology
Sediment supply from the eastern margin and from intrabasinal highs was locally important.
Ziwuling East Hill, north mountain sheep pen, Liupanshan west, east, west, north uplift, central and southern low-, it is "basin" of.
Alex dropped the plate she was washing into the basin and spluttered as the soapy water splashed in her face, stinging her eyes.
The mechanician poured into three cups, one of which he brought to Eustace with a jug of milk and a basin of damp white sugar. On Forsyte 'Change
After that He poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded.
And the rooms' en-suites boast anti-mist mirrors and vanity basins the size of horse troughs.
A few Arabs of Beni Salem here sow some fields with durra, which they irrigate by means of a fine spring of running water issuing from a cleft in the mountains, where it forms several small basins and pretty cascades — the best water I had drank since leaving the mountains of Tayf. Travels in Arabia
An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks. CHAPTER 20
Of course, when he wasn't reading, he was either freebasing or having cheap sex with some girl he met at a cafe.
They can inform us about the origin and ongoing development of many parts of the ocean basins, about former and current plate movements, about upper-Earth rheology, and about postglacial sea-level rise, among other processes.
Stroll the paved waterfront walk along Marine Drive and explore the east and west mooring basins.
A quick fumble for the stopcock, a basin, and a phone call to my father solved the leak, but I was left with a very wet floor to clean.
He returned to his boat at the yacht basin and fell into the water after feeling ill as he boarded the boat.
The bathroom is fit for a king and queen, with his and hers basins, large mirrors framed by driftwood, a separate shower room and toilet and a huge tub also encased in wood.
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. Harold Kroto - Autobiography
The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left. Archive 2009-05-01
Now the upper basin would get its share.
Other evidence of increased activity are the formation of a new line of fumaroles at Nymph Lake, just north of Norris, and marked through temporary increases in ground temperatures in Norris' Back Basin.
The remaining materials that have been found in this building, such as votives, a sundial, basins, lamps, and other finds, could have been used in the last phase.
The distribution of life in the rivers and lakes of Brazil, the immense number of species and their local circumscription, as distinct faunae in definite areas of the same water-basin, amazed him; while the character of the soil and other geological features confirmed him in his preconceived belief that the glacial period could not have been less than cosmic in its influence. Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
The park contains habitat for at least eight endangered mammal species and is also proving to be an important geobotanical laboratory for studies on pollen and climatic changes in the Amazon basin. Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru

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