noontide

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Noontide found Will seated at lunch at Llwynelen, Mr. Trevor plying him with questions concerning his studies and college life; Dr. Owen not a little pleased with his nephew's self-possessed, though unobtrusive, manner.

From Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead by Raine, Allen

Or oboe that the Summer Noontide plays,   Sitting with Ripeness 'neath the orchard tree, Trying repeatedly the same shrill phrase,   Until the musky peach with weariness   Drops, and the hum of murmuring bees grows less?

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

Noontide came, and found the little band, of some score aged men, intent upon their midday meal.

From The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)

Over the pool of sleep The night mists creep, Then faint thin light and then clear day, Noontide, and lingering afternoon; Then that Wanderer, the Moon Wandering her old wild way.

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John

Mithras, God of the Noontide, the heather swims in the heat, Our helmets scorch our foreheads; our sandals burn our feet!

From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rackham, Arthur