salle d'attente
Example Sentences
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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 Joseph Pennell
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
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
There, in the salle d’attente, he found Aristide mounting guard over his wife’s luggage.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Alec Ball
"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 Charles James Lever
