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Back they went, disappointed yet half-relieved, to the resounding emptiness of porterless halls, waiterless restaurants, motionless lifts: to the queer disjointed life of fashionable hotels suddenly reduced to the intimacies and make -
Fighting France 1915
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Back they went, disappointed yet half-relieved, to the resounding emptiness of porterless halls, waiterless restaurants, motionless lifts: to the queer disjointed life of fashionable hotels suddenly reduced to the intimacies and make-shift of a Latin
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Edith Wharton 1899
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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.
A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879
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