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  • I wish I had a public eating-place as close as that.

    Pirates defeated. Ann Althouse 2009

  • So once gotten a spoon, he would approach the eating-place and also start eating.

    Journey Of My Soul 2007

  • When only one hour was left, he found a message waiting for him in a particularly greasy eating-place.

    The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964

  • A Chicago man was walking through a foreign quarter of his city when, with an amused smile, he stopped in front of a small eating-place, on the window of which was painted in white, "Lam Stew."

    More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

  • I found him in an eating-place patronized by tramps.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • It occurred to me to wonder that T-S was not embarrassed to take Carpenter to a fashionable eating-place.

    They Call Me Carpenter Upton Sinclair 1923

  • The air became suddenly a living thing, which leaped against your face; the windows of the little eating-place flew inward in a shower of glass, and the walls and tables shook as if with palsy.

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Upstairs was another eating-place, reserved for the Tsay-ee-kah— though every one went there.

    Chapter 2. The Coming Storm 1922

  • "Welcker's," erst a fashionable resort, and long the best eating-place in town, had been ruined by a scandal, and "Chamberlin's" succeeded it, having the field to itself, though, mindful of the "scandal" which had made its opportunity, ladies were barred.

    "Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

  • It was his custom to take his meals at a modest eating-place on a side avenue, but to-night he directed his steps to the best hotel the city afforded.

    The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919

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