nooning
Example Sentences
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The next day saw them nooning at the last named creek, and before nightfall they had crossed Big Coon Creek.
From Bring Me His Ears by Mulford, Clarence E.
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)
Dolly trotted off to school well content with the prospect before her: a nooning, with leave to play with the girls at school, was not an unpleasant idea.
From A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others by Schayer, Julia Thompson von Stosch
They stopped for the nooning at a farmhouse where they were expected, and where their hostess met them eagerly at the gate.
From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
Bert Chester, waiting before Zinkand’s an hour later, picked her a block away from the nooning crowd.
From The Readjustment by Irwin, Will
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.