The shifting from the wagon-lit has begun at the Italian frontier. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
The carriage was an ordinary "wagon-lit" converted with considerable ingenuity into a Hospital Train. From Wordnik.com. ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference
A painter, confirmed bachelor and all-around cuddly Old World teddy bear, Bellack is no match for the Prince of Darkness, who invades his wagon-lit by dark of night. From Wordnik.com. [31 Screams: Norbert Schiller] Reference
We left Berlin Monday night at eleven and slept well in a wagon-lit. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
That boat reeked with Moors and cattle, and there was no wagon-lit on the train from Madrid. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Jackal] Reference
The train was very full, and there were no berths in the wagon-lit, so we had to stay up all night in a crowded first-class carriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Great War As I Saw It] Reference
It was hot travelling, and I shared my compartment in the wagon-lit with a German gentleman very far advanced in several unaesthetic ailments. From Wordnik.com. [A Spirit in Prison] Reference
He was already there, and we exchanged the hard implacable glare that is reserved among the English for the other fellow in a wagon-lit compartment. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914] Reference
Abducting Mozart's opera and stuffing it into a wood-panelled wagon-lit somewhere between Stamboul and Paris rendered the 18th-century chasm between Europe and the Orient nonsensical. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
We wouldn't have met Sir Charles if we had waited for a wagon-lit. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lion and the Unicorn] Reference
"But nobody wants to go to Vladivostok," said Miss Cameron, "or anywhere else in a wagon-lit. From Wordnik.com. [Lion and the Unicorn] Reference
Collier was saying -- "what's the use of a yacht, when you can go to sleep in a wagon-lit at the Gare du. From Wordnik.com. [Lion and the Unicorn] Reference
And look at the time it saves; eleven days to Gib, six to Port Said, and fifteen to Colombo -- there you are, only half-way around, and you're already sixteen days behind the man in the wagon-lit. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lion and the Unicorn] Reference
As they settled down in the wagon-lit. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
"I think that in a wagon-lit ----" began Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Comedies of Courtship] Reference
Sir Charles if we had waited for a wagon-lit. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lion and the Unicorn] Reference
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