salle d'attente

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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 Waddington, Mary Alsop King

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

"La salle d'attente is gloomy enough," said one of my companions, "and yet some of us may be very sorry to leave it."

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James

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

"Do you suppose I can offer myself in the salle d'attente?" sneered Staniford.

From The Lady of the Aroostook by Howells, William Dean