A passenger car that has berths for sleeping.
1 Then in March, the evidence of the wagon - lit conductor reopened the case.
2 That boat reeked with Moors and cattle, and there was no wagon - lit on the train from Madrid.
3 It was hot travelling, and I shared my compartment in the wagon - lit with a German gentleman very far advanced in several unaesthetic ailments.
4 We wouldn't have met Sir Charles if we had waited for a wagon - lit . She bowed her head to the Governor, and he smiled with gratitude.
5 It is a comfortable train; Russian " wagons - lits " have larger compartments and a samovar is kept on the boil day & night.
6 "But nobody wants to go to Vladivostok," said Miss Cameron, "or anywhere else in a wagon - lit .
7 He was nearly an hour behind time when he reached at length the two wagons - lits carriages standing by themselves in a wilderness of tracks.
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