Washing-machine

"How do you find your washing-machine?" "Not so bad."

As soon as Mahailey got used to a washing-machine or a churn, Ralph, to keep up with the bristling march of events, brought home a still newer one.

‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I’ve just heard as how your washing-machine’s gone bung.’

The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.

The clatter from the kitchen was comforting. Edie, dealing with the breakfast dishes, loading the washing-machine with a weekend’s worth of dirty clothes, and talking to the dogs.

Her laundry smacked against the porthole of her washing-machine.