nooning
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The nooning was cut short voluntarily, the men contenting themselves with a few whiffs of tobacco and resuming work without a word from MacNutt.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
Once a day at least it seemed to tire from its ceaseless flow and to take a nooning spell.
From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by F. N. (Frederick N.) Wilson
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 William Dean Howells
Gull, the herring, 211. following the plow, 213. flight, 215. manners, 213. nesting, 216. nooning, 215. penalty for killing, 212. sent to the "Chosen People," 212. value of, 216.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller
With the morning of that day or with its nooning or with its afternooning we need have no concern, replete though they were in variety of entertainment and abounding in pleasurable incident.
From Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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