dining-saloon

• “The hand-pulled punkahs, for in those days there were no electric fans, flapped vigorously to and fro in the crowded dining-saloon and agitated the hot food-smelling air.”

  Simon & Schuster: MY EARLY LIFE

• “And I was just pulling the door to again when a sudden tremendous shock threw me off my feet, the Yangtse shuddered like an earthquake, plates shattered in the dining-saloon, and faint cries of alarm sounded from the steerage deck.”

  Flashman and the Dragon

• “As they passed through the end of the dining-saloon, whose tables were laden with bouquets of fresh and fragrant flowers, brought by loving friends to many of the passengers, Malcom's quick eye spied a little pile of letters on the end of a corner table.”

  Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters

• “As the London lodging-houses seldom furnish dinners, I lost no time in seeking out a dining-saloon, which I had no difficulty in finding in the Strand.”

  Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met

• “As they turned in the direction of the dining-saloon, the girl looked over her shoulder at the two maids, and smiled.”

  The Hawk of Egypt

• “Winifred," said Miss Thornton, as they were leaving the dining-saloon, "do you see that young Englishman at the farther table?”

  That Mainwaring Affair

• “Lieutenant Cohen, whom Harold Mainwaring introduced as an old classmate, and presently all three adjourned to the dining-saloon.”

  That Mainwaring Affair

• “Miss Carleton were the only members of their party to venture forth to the dining-saloon, the others preferring to have a light repast served in their own apartments.”

  That Mainwaring Affair

• “The grand dining-saloon is 52 feet long, 52 feet wide, and 9 feet high, or 17 feet in the way of the large opening to the drawing-room above.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881

• “It was only the other day that I read in a Louisville paper of a gentleman going into the Gait-house Hotel, and deliberately shooting at another in the dining-saloon when full of people, missing his aim, and the hall lodging in the back of a stranger's chair who was quietly sitting at his dinner.”

  Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada

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