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

Very obligingly, she offered to fetch my letters from the poste restante, and look out for photographs.

From The Roof of France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

I turned the letter over when I had read it, and saw that it was addressed to "M. Henri Smith, N——-, poste restante."

From The Confession of a Child of the Century by Warren, Kendall

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