twelve o'clock

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At twelve o’clock it gets dinner, composed of a tin of coarse Indian meal stirabout, and at half-past five it gets a piece of dry bread and a tin of water for its supper.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018

“He’d shut it down about twelve o’clock, twelve-thirty. At seven in the morning, you’d hear it again.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2016

So that Turkey’s paroxysms only coming on about twelve o’clock, I never had to do with their eccentricities at one time.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2015

At precisely twelve o’clock on New Year’s Day, Oprah Winfrey welcomed television viewers to OWN, a cable channel that she says will espouse her “live your best life” mantra.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2011

On the way home April decided that since there was still plenty of time before twelve o’clock, she might as well explore the store she had seen from the balcony.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder