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wagon-lit

[va-gawn-lee] / va gɔ̃ˈli /


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"The British have a wagon-lit to ourselves with all possible conveniences: there are several other wagon-lits and a dining saloon," he wrote.

From BBC Nov. 10, 2018

In my first-class wagon-lit compartment, the washbasin was dirty.

From Time Magazine Archive

I dragged myself back from Christmas at Manderley to the realities of the wagon-lit.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Soon she would be gone, rattling alone in the wagon-lit without me, and he and I would be together in the dining-room of the hotel, lunching at the same table, planning the future.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

From the window of the wagon-lit Mrs. Shiffney looked at the two men standing together as the train drew away from the platform.

From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper

The Czechoslovaks remained parked in the depot all night, the windows of their wagons-lits glowing during long strategy sessions.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the trip Carol neglected to shave before the ingenious folding washstand provided in the individual compartments of all wagons-lits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The party played cards, ate with their official hosts in the cheery dining car, slept in soft berths as the wagons-lits swayed leisurely westward.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a latched compartment of the wagons-lits rode an elderly intriguer, Prince Barbu Stirbey of Rumania, and his elegant daughter, Princess Elise, wife of a British major.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was nearly an hour behind time when he reached at length the two wagons-lits carriages standing by themselves in a wilderness of tracks.

From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Perceval Gibbon




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