Into the lavatory bowl rattled a fall of earth.

'You are a skid-mark on the lavatory bowl of life.

I, too, began to fear for my life as I stooped over the lavatory bowl.

Near delirious with agony, he dropped it into the lavatory bowl and pulled the chain.

Then, all the earlier whimsy gone, she spent the requisite miserable time hunched over the lavatory bowl.

It seemed so feeble and spindly floating there next to the toilet paper in the lavatory bowl.

Thus he was always ruining the flushing mechanism of the lavatory bowl, or something of that sort.

Firemen with metal cutters extricated him - and the lavatory bowl - from the train.

Dyer's posture suggests he is seated on a lavatory bowl, though the object is not described.

Together, awkwardly, they stumble to the bathroom where he lowers her to her knees before the lavatory bowl.

More curious still, even though the lavatory bowl had clearly been scrubbed clean, the lavatory seat had a few .

Trent held Mariana tight round the shoulders, blocking her view of her grandfather who knelt at the lavatory bowl as if in prayer.

The arrow of the right panel, according to Tóibín, points to a "dead figure on the lavatory bowl, as though telling the Furies where to find him".

Who is to say that this old lavatory bowl, this pile of bricks, these cattle droppings, are not works of art, if I say they are?

To have made that statement a few years ago would have been about as likely as trapping a neutrino in my lavatory bowl and fishing it out with a magnifying glass and a teaspoon.

The retired midwife of Mary's district recalls "the silenced creatures she had found in drawers and wardrobes and in bolster cases, like sleeping dolls: a little baby boy in a lavatory bowl, twins with binding twine around their necks."

A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl; it involved unbending the coathanger, jamming it down the U-bend, and working it vigorously backwards and forwards.

If, as Ms. Moss says, "People's lives are expressed in the little details," this 19th-century rattan commode chair (not for sale), concealing the lavatory bowl (much like the Victorians hid their table legs) while at the same time forcing the user to assume a rigidly upright position, is a Freudian minefield.

Furthermore, in the world of the lavatory pan things don't stand still.

A toilet brush is a domestic implement designed for the cleaning of the lavatory pan.

He plumped his large posterior into the lavatory pan.

He made a few more jerky movements up and down, several times, casting a longing glance at the lavatory pan.

It is a clay used for making glazed tiles, wash basins and lavatory pans.

When the Americans left nearby Clark air base, everything moveable, even lavatory pans, was stolen.

Tiger said that there were fine whirlpools 'like great lavatory pans, specially designed for suicides' between some of these.

In his autobiography, he recalls finding himself developing film in lavatory pans behind the Iron Curtain.

Jack had torn up the certificate and dropped it down the lavatory pan; there had been a sour pleasure in pulling the chain on it.

The walls were painted white and the basin and lavatory pan were absolutely new, only there was no lavatory seat or lid.

There was temptation money when unloading whisky and embarrassment money when unloading lavatory pans (true).

He immediately dashed to the bathroom, leaned over the lavatory pan and with a beating heart started to sniff up the elusive smell that seemed to be slipping away from him.

On 2003 April Fool's Day the action Destroy Your Lavatory Pan held under the motto "You deserve to sit on better things!"

A bench, or shelf, just wide enough to sit on ran round the wall, broken only by the door and, at the end opposite the door, a lavatory pan with no wooden seat.

See if they have a regular customer or did have a regular Customer, who bought lavatory pan from them and a basin and the Pipework and whatever back in, say, June."

When she stepped out of bed in the mornings she seemed like some efficient mechanic servicing herself: a perfunctory shower; the night's urine discharged into the lavatory pan; her cap extracted, re-greased and once again inserted (how and where did she make love during her lunch-hour, and with which of the pilots and airline executives?)