matinal

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"The sidewalks are swept, there is no refuse piled up, and a matinal sprinkler truck comes through, washing down the streets."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was blinding the sun with a matinal oblation of incense.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

When conscience was troubled he cheerfully doubled His matinal dose of discipline;— A deuce of a scourging, sufficient for purging The Devil himself of original sin.

From A line-o'-verse or two by Taylor, Bert Leston

The excessively shy and unseasonable habits of the matinal worm never appealed favorably to me, but we have to have him once in a while, so here I am.

From White Ashes by Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)

He forbade the matinal visit to church, to which she clung so ardently.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann