nooning

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Is this more pleasant to you than the whirr Of meadow-lark, and its sweet roundelay, Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake?

From Tales of a Wayside Inn by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Chunky shook his head as if to intimate that the case was a desperate one, and then the nooning had come to an end.

From Down the Slope by Otis, James

Then at nooning we play picnic, don't we, Timmie?”

From Glory and the Other Girl by Donnell, Annie Hamilton

When Father Brighthopes mounted the hay-rick, to ride to the field with the laborers, after their brief nooning, he remarked that he "smelt a storm brewing."

From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

They took their nooning, with Sirius now over Mynedd Mawr, and Orion soaring like a kite.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver