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When Father Brighthopes mounted the hay-rick, to ride to the field with the laborers, after their brief nooning, he remarked that he "smelt a storm brewing."
From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
Every street is as packed as lower Fifth Avenue used to be when the operatives came out of the big shops for their nooning.
From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by William Dean Howells
A day's work in haying should and can be so planned as to give two hours' nooning in the hottest part of the day.
From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
Even here the grama grass was not entirely missing, and a nooning of two hours was taken to let the animals crop as much of it as they could find.
From Bring Me His Ears by Clarence E. Mulford
Gull, the herring, 211. following the plow, 213. flight, 215. manners, 213. nesting, 216. nooning, 215. penalty for killing, 212. sent to the "Chosen People," 212. value of, 216.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller
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