nooning

Example Sentences

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With the morning of that day or with its nooning or with its afternooning we need have no concern, replete though they were in variety of entertainment and abounding in pleasurable incident.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

Dolly trotted off to school well content with the prospect before her: a nooning, with leave to play with the girls at school, was not an unpleasant idea.

From A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others by Schayer, Julia Thompson von Stosch

Next day, while nooning several miles out from Casper, we heard the whistle of a locomotive.

From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)

Then at nooning we play picnic, don't we, Timmie?”

From Glory and the Other Girl by Donnell, Annie Hamilton

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.