nooning

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It dyed the clouds that seemed to sag over the earth as the ceiling-sheets sagged in the cottages, and its glare was not lost high overhead now, as it had been on that night when the Kerrs had rested for their "nooning" in the midst of their building of their Hafod.

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"Then we'll ha' we're nooning."

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

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For instance, I’ve an hour’s nooning; and I go out and get my dinner in a little eating-house near the rear of our store—ten cents for a plate of roast beef; pretty thin the cut is, but the flavor is all right.

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That especial day his nooning had something of the element of a new interest.

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