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Definition of Noontimes
1. noontime [n] - See also: noontime
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noontimes
Literary usage of Noontimes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1917)
"It was one of those noontimes which, in the moisture-charged air of southern
Alabama, makes life a steaming hell to all living things save reptiles and ..."
2. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong (1883)
"The warfare was of a guerilla character, and «masted of a series of raidi into
the enemy's country. noontimes these extended only just over the border, ..."
3. Homes of American Authors: Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive (1853)
"... little tin pail that held his dinner in the other, he had the whole of his "
noontimes " for play, and a walk home again through the snow to his supper. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished by Henry Howe (1856)
"But notwithstanding," continues Fitch, " he suppressed me from going to school,
he did not hinder me from studying such books as he had; and at noontimes ..."
5. Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished by Henry Howe, New York Museum of Science and Industry Library (1852)
"... of hard labor and times for rest. planted it with potatoes, cultivating them
at noontimes and a! evenings, after the labors of the day were over. ..."
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