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
The doctor inquired at the poste restante in vain.
From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard
In my letter, I repeated the offer about the Monasticon; with the addition of about a dozen napoleons for the early printed books above mentioned; requesting to have an answer, poste restante, at Vienna.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Direct your answer by return to me, poste restante, Calais.
From Kenelm Chillingly — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Closely watched by the local authorities and the Russian police, all Nihilists, but especially their leaders, are compelled to take certain precautions, such as having their letters and papers addressed poste restante to simple initials.
From Tartarin On The Alps by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
