Noontide

The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to fuller day, and we must part. ❋ Jen (2008)

Another great peril of our noontide is a narrowing of the sympathies. ❋ 1817-1893 (1913)

I think that one of the first perils of the noontide is the eclipse of the spiritual relations of life. ❋ 1817-1893 (1913)

But a little after the noontide is the Niblung host embayed, ❋ William Morris (1865)

All the children march in a parade with the town band to a noontide family service at church. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ye might go out to the paddock near noontide, though, lass, if ye've a mind to. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By first light, she had served breakfast to her father, brother, and one-legged uncle and was already washing the curds that would be the principal dish at the noontide meal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

India to Barbary the inner and outer gates are carefully shut during the noontide devotions, not because Friday is the day on which creation was finished and Mohammed entered ❋ Unknown (2006)

This small dark coffee-house, now burnt down, was the resort of such writers and clerks belonging to the Parliament House above thirty years ago as retained the ancient Scottish custom of a meridian, as it was called, or noontide dram of spirits. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now it chanced one day, whilst he paced about the main thoroughfares, as of wont, and was bending his steps right and left, he heard a crier crying aloud and saying, ‘Who will earn a thousand gold pieces and a slave-girl of surpassing beauty and loveliness by working for me between morning and noontide?’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

O brilliance, like resplendent sun of noontide, deign them heal ❋ Unknown (2006)

This was so much his wont that, when he made apologies at setting off for being obliged to stop in some strange, solitary place till the horses should eat the corn which he brought on with them for that purpose, our imagination used to be on the stretch to guess what romantic retreat he had secretly fixed upon for our noontide baiting-place. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So he came down from the knoll and said, Can I not take a noontide nap281 but thou must trick me this trick? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Rothsay was seated with the Constable, after their noontide repast. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And when he ended his verses, he wept with sore weeping, for indeed the ways were walled up before his face and death seemed to him better than dreeing life, and he walked on like a drunken man for stress of distraction, and stayed not till noontide, when he came to a little town and saw a plougher hard by, ploughing with a yoke of bulls. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The meal was prepared at noontide with all the care which Elspeth and ❋ Unknown (2008)

He has observed the hours; he has worshipped or mourned or fasted on days; he has battled the demon of the noontide. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The morning had been golden; the noontide was bronze; and the evening lead. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)