Lexicographical Neighbors of Noonings
Literary usage of Noonings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1874)
"These " noonings" contain a great deal of mature wisdom—which will benefit "
grown-folks" more than the juveniles to peruse. From the title and appearance ..."
2. The District School as it was: By One who Went to it by Warren Burton (1838)
"Our noonings, in \vhich we used formerly to rejoice in the utmost freedom ...
were now like the noonings of the sabbath, in the restraints imposed upon us. ..."
3. New England Bygones by Ellen Chapman Hobbs Rollins (1883)
"The noonings were bright features of a haying landscape. ... Oh the peace, the
glory, given by those summer noonings to the tired bodies and cramped souls ..."
4. New England and Her Institutions by Jacob Abbott (1835)
"That delightful exercise of juvenile lungs, hallooing, was a capital crime.
Our noonings, in which we used formerly to rejoice in the utmost freedom of legs ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1865)
"The Wednesday and Saturday " noonings" and the somewhat graver Sunday evening
concerts have been uninterruptedly kept up ; the audiences small, tobe sure, ..."
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