salle d'attente
Example Sentences
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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
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
I can see one now stretched out on the floor on a rug in the small salle d'attente at Susa, quite exhausted and absolutely indifferent to the outside world.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
"Do you suppose I can offer myself in the salle d'attente?" sneered Staniford.
From The Lady of the Aroostook by William Dean Howells
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 Wilkie Collins
