10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAGON-LIT»
Discover the use of
wagon-lit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wagon-lit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories (獅子與獨角獸及其他故事):
Collier was saying —"what's the use of a yacht, whenyoucan go to sleep in a
wagon– lit at the Gare du Nord, and wake upat Vladivostok? And look at the time
itsaves; eleven days to Gib, sixto Port Said, and fifteen to Colombo—there you
are, ...
Richard Harding Davis, 2011
Collier was saying — "what's the use of a yacht, when you can go to sleep in a
wagon-lit at the Gare du Nord, and wake up at Vladivostok? And look at the time
it saves; eleven days to Gib, six to Port Said, and fifteen to Colombo — there you
...
Richard Harding Davis, 2008
3
The Lion and the Unicorn
Collier was saying — "what's the use of a yacht, when you can go to sleep in a
wagon-lit at the Gare du Nord, and wake up at Vladivostok? And look at the time
it saves ; eleven days to Gib, six to Port Said, and fifteen to Colombo — there you
...
Richard Harding Davis, 2008
4
Manglo-Saxon: Marvelously Mangled Meanings for Well-worn Words
... the churchyard and bought some grass from a verger there." Wagon-lit: A train
on fire. "It was a darned good job I wasn't asleep when I found myself aboard this
wagon-lit.' Health Care Analyst: A proctologist. "These psychotics are a pain.
5
Schaum's Outline of French Vocabulary
... Ils peuvent choisir une couchette superieure. au milieu. inferieure. upper
middle lower un compartiment de wagon-lit (voiture-lit). sleeping car S'ils ont une
auto, ils peuvent faire des reservations dans le train car sleeper train auto-
couchette.
Accompanied and sat beside him in the wagon-lit as he steamed put of Florence,
out of her life. That same wagon-lit of which he had spoken so joyously only
yesterday. That wagon-lit he had hoped to share with her as his companion, but
in ...
7
The Lost History of 1914: How the Great War Was Not Inevitable
The 1918 Armistice was signed in a wagon-lit in a clearing in a forest at
Rethondes. In June 1940, German engineers freed the wagon-lit from the
museum to which it had been annexed and returned it to the clearing. When, on
June 22, the ...
Kä'awe kalipa. Slipper strap. Ka'ä wela i'oa Jupiter. Dic. Ka'a wili Na Mintaka, a
star. Män. (HA). ka awiliwili See makani ka'awiliwili. kabuki kik Child's wagon. Lit,
wagon (with) handle (for) pulling. ka'a ä pu'u See ka'a holo 'äpu'upu'u. ka'a ike ...
9
A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of Its ...
That wagon is now in Yogyakarta, and I keep telling people: “Bring it back here [
to Surakarta], so that everybody can see it.”79 In the new and expanding traffic-
excited and traffic-determined space, whoever did not have a wagon-lit, or a
driver, ...
10
À Vous!: The Global French Experience
«Je voudrais acheter un billet wagon-lit pour le train en provenance de
Strasbourg.» b. «Je voudrais acheter un billet wagon-lit pour le train à destination
de Strasbourg.» c. «Je voudrais acheter un billet au wagon-restaurant en
provenance ...
Veronique Anover, Theresa A. Antes, 2007
