salle d'attente
Example Sentences
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There, in the salle d’attente, he found Aristide mounting guard over his wife’s luggage.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec
It was a large, barely furnished apartment, like the salle d'attente at the Northern Railway Station at Paris.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
Ten minutes later the doors of the salle d'attente were thrown open, the train rolled in, and Fanny was carried away.
From Blind Love by Collins, Wilkie
While in your dismal salle d'attente I wait And with forgotten Punches idly toy, How it will reconcile me to my fate To muse upon the mouth-wash you employ.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 by Various
Let this small effusion of ill-nature be my first and last tribute to the whole despotic gare: the deadly salle d'attente, the insufferable delays over one's luggage, the porterless platform, the overcrowded and illiberal train.
From A Little Tour of France by Pennell, Joseph
