quick-lunch

There were a quick-lunch shack and two barnlike stages and everywhere about the lot, groups of waiting, hopeful, painted faces.

Tender is the Night 2003

For many of us, food is merely something that we eat, sometimes at leisure but often on a quick-lunch basis.

Why Not? 1975

Full of enthusiasm over the coming adventure and his part in it, Archie hurried out to a quick-lunch counter and bought himself a light meal, for he feared that he would have to remain at Coney Island through the evening.

The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Harry Steele Morrison

Whereupon, to his vast and historic surprise, a brace of she-bears came out of a wood and used him for a quick-lunch bar, along with forty-one of his playmates.

The Saint in Action Charteris, Leslie 1937

The birds should dine that evening on the quick-lunch principle.

The Intrusion of Jimmy 1928

Such marionette tragedies mingled ever with the grander passion of seeing life as a ruined thing; her birthright to aspiring cleanness sold for a mess of quick-lunch pottage.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

But the ruck -- the rank and file -- had to take such marital happiness as came their way on the quick-lunch system.

Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

He slapped the china and silver down with the familiar bravura of a quick-lunch waiter, and her heart sank, remembering that she had once admired his skill.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

He spoke of a boarding-house kept by a certain Mrs. Bowse, and a presidential campaign, and the election of a mayor, and a quick-lunch counter, and when President Garfield had been assassinated, and a department store, and the electric lights, and the way he had of making a sort of picture of every thing was really instructive and, well, fascinating.

T. Tembarom 1913

Alabama has beaten her public bars into soda fountains and quick-lunch rooms, and though her club bars still look like real ones, the drinks served are so soft that no splash occurs when reminiscent tears drop into them.

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913