nooning

Example Sentences

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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 Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

By the time the last team was at the nooning place, the head ones were ready to start on.

From A Gold Hunter's Experience by Hambleton, Chalkley J.

Is this more pleasant to you than the whir Of meadow lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little fieldfares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake?

From Conservation Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)

Said I to Love: "What must I do, All in the summer nooning?"

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

They halted for a nooning; the oxen browsed a little on sage brush and dried grass; the men lunched on crackers, cold coffee and the remnants of breakfast, but our water keg was empty.

From A Gold Hunter's Experience by Hambleton, Chalkley J.