noontide

Example Sentences

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Though we speak of the noontide sun as "beating down" on our heads, it does nothing of the kind.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was best seen after dark when great batteries of floodlights poured a spurious noontide over the rising, mile-long ramparts of fresh concrete.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon they were stealing through the green, noontide depths of Mossflower Wood.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

North and further north they ran, while the pallid noontide came and went and the twilight wrapped itself again around the world.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

This was a favorite haunt of Hawthorne and Channing in blissful days; here they prepared their sylvan noontide feasts; here they lounged and dreamed; here their "talk gushed up like the babble of a fountain."

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)