restaurant-car

About this time the restaurant-car bethought itself of some sort of late-afternoon repast, and we went forward and ate it with an interest which we prolonged as much as possible.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

And if after that I went and drank a great deal too much in the restaurant-car of the train, that was because I felt that otherwise I should have a more violent attack than usual, which was just what would vex her most.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

I spoke therefore as if my hesitation were concerned only with where I should go for my drink, to the bar on the platform or to the restaurant-car on the train.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

In the morning the train was near Paris, and after the American lady had come out from the wash-room, looking very wholesome and middle-aged and American in spite of not having slept, and had taken the cloth off the birdcage and hung the cage in the sun, she went back to the restaurant-car for breakfast.

The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

The twins and Mr. Twist were in the restaurant-car lunching when the miracle happened.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

He was sympathetic, but he said flatly I couldn't have tea, nor anything, and that nobody could have anything at all for an hour and a half, as there would be no restaurant-car till Elkhart, and Elkhart was quite ninety miles off.

Your United States Impressions of a first visit Arnold Bennett 1899

Later, meeting him in the restaurant-car I asked him to show me his store of bad money.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 Various 1898

In the evening they dined together in the restaurant-car and sat long over their meal; and then it was that Ailsa chanced to mention the name of Major Carew.

The Rhodesian Gertrude Page 1897

And thus we chatted until dinner was announced, and we went together along the corridor to the restaurant-car, where we sat opposite each other.

The Stretton Street Affair William Le Queux 1895

Behind the sleeping-car was a third vehicle, the restaurant-car, consisting of an old soap box mounted on four solid wooden wheels, which were fastened to the axles by huge conical bolts; in this he kept his provisions; lumps of bread and fat, bottles and vegetables, all mixed up in agreeable confusion.

Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894