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

Every street is as packed as lower Fifth Avenue used to be when the operatives came out of the big shops for their nooning.

From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean

Drowseth the nooning air On meads with red poppies set; Fair is the day—ah, fair!

From The Path of Dreams Poems by Giltner, Leigh Gordon

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)

Nevertheless, the lad got up, tried the dibble with his left hand, and saying, “Thanks, Charlie,” dropped down upon the fragrant sod and was speedily asleep, for a generous nooning was allowed the industrious lads.

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)