poste restante

Example Sentences

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Leisurely two-sided correspondences were difficult to sustain, with Chatwin roving from one poste restante to the next.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2011

Direct your answer by return to me, poste restante, Calais.

From Kenelm Chillingly — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Dear Sir, My last to you was of the 21st of November, addressed to Milan, poste restante, according to the desire expressed through Mrs. Paradise.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Accordingly I presented myself at the poste restante.

From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.

I shall be at Munich on Friday, and have written to Hallam Tennyson, poste restante; but I hope to waylay them at the station.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron