Eating House

He would hastily swallow a morsel at some eating-house, and spend all the rest of the day, even when it rained, in going round and round the garden, always walking at the edge of the moat. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

Forty years later, in 1862, James Nightingale, who owned one of the lots, leased his land to Frederick Loeber, who opened a “restaurant or eating-house.” ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

The young man left them for a few minutes while he went to order a meal at the best eating-house in Taverny; then, returning to fetch them, he led the way through the alleys cut in the forest. ❋ Unknown (2007)

An Irish pork-merchant was seated at dinner next a Jew, who regarded the pig _in toto_ as an abomination — a lady, a scion of a ducal family, found herself next to a French cook going out to a San Franciscan eating-house — an officer, going out to high command at Halifax, was seated next a rough Californian, who wore “nuggets” of gold for buttons; and there were contrasts even stronger than these. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that! ❋ Unknown (2006)

I thought of some kind of an eating-house for seafaring folk — ❋ Unknown (2006)

On the Witwatersrand, the black miners lived not as part of the black community, but a life apart, closely corralled within their compounds, with only the sleazy eating-house cum 'native store' complexes around the compounds as an alternative to compound life. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Passing the open window of an eating-house, I suddenly heard the voice of our servant, Vassily, a young man of free and easy manners, “a lazy fellow and a scamp,” as my father called him, but also a great conqueror of female hearts which he charmed by his wit, his dancing and his playing on the tambourine. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Oh, a high-class eating-house, of course — not a pigsty for common sailors. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I repeated to David all that I had overheard under the window of the eating-house. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“Then how was it that in the eating-house, you ...” ❋ Unknown (2006)

He therefore had remained away from home, and, not being a club man, had dined most uncomfortably at an eating-house. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Without a word I led him into the eating-house towards which I had originally been directing my steps. ❋ Unknown (2005)