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Definition of Noontides
1. noontide [n] - See also: noontide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noontides
Literary usage of Noontides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"Who spread the Auroras, the noontides and midnight, monitors to discerning man,
duty's true guides ? ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"... so giving an air of roominess and freedom to drawing-room, dining-room, and
library alike, which was especially grateful in hot Canadian noontides. ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... and by the news that the shepherd gave unto him, that Angelica had slept more
than two noontides with the little Moor, Medoro of the curled locks, ..."
4. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1904)
"... and silently I retire; I watch the moon rise over the sea, a ghost Of burning
noontides, pallid with spent desire. But this sigh of passionate regret ..."