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

At twelve o’clock the work crew put down their tools and ambled to the river’s edge to eat their brown-bag lunches.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George