Flushing

"Don't you think it's a cruel, barbarous thing to whip a child . . . ANY child?" exclaimed Anne, her face flushing with earnestness.

On the Japanese high-tech toilet there were quite a number of buttons with text in Kanji. These I couldn't read, and I was afraid of doing something wrong. What would happen? Finally, I at least found the button for flushing. And, luckily, there was still classic paper.

Mennad kept flushing the toilet.

Lower lid before flushing.

Don't leave the bathroom without flushing.

Close the lid of the toilet before flushing.

We tried to repair the toilet, but it broke again after two or three flushings.

An example of this was the hourly fast train from Amsterdam via Rotterdam to Eindhoven and Venlo, which used to be combined on the section from Amsterdam to Rotterdam with a stopping train to Flushing.