diners-out

We have professional diners-out, professional beauties, professional Christians, then why not professional philanthropists?

Madame Midas 2003

Boston, Washington, and other cities where the dining-rooms are ordinarily larger than those in a New York house, the danger of crowding, of heat, and want of ventilation, is more easily avoided; but in a gas-lighted, furnace-heated room in New York the sufferings of the diners-out are sometimes terrible.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

N.B. Gentlemen who live by their wits, and diners-out in particular, will find Mr.T. Hood's system of incalculable service.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various

Better far go again to New Bond Street and pass another happy hour or two with the ruddy rustics and 'cute cockneys, the Scotch elders and Anglican curates, the stodgy "Old Gents" and broad-backed, bunchy middle-class matrons, the paunchy port-swigging-buffers, and hungry but alert street-boys, the stertorous cabbies, and chatty' bus-drivers, the "festive" diners-out and wary waiters, the

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 Various

This perfumed exquisite hurried by to fulfil an appointment and dine at Parker's; the more sober and economical citizen hastened on his way to "feed" at some establishment of less pretensions and more moderate prices; while the mass of the diners-out repaired to appease their hunger at the numerous cheap refectories that abound in the neighborhood.

Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life George Thompson

Idlers, parasites, toadies, club-frequenters and diners-out are there in the masks of court-fools, and buffoons.

The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

This was all sure to prove interesting to her fellow diners-out.

The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox

COLMAN was a very frequent guest at these dinners, and was, with the exception perhaps of LORD ALVANLEY, one of the most brilliant diners-out in London. '

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

Now, who is the man that long ago published a book of jests, said to be greatly studied now-a-days by diners-out and professed wits, and endlessly copied into other works of a similar character.

Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins

QUOTATION: Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons.

Quotations 1919