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nooning

[noo-ning] / ˈnu nɪŋ /


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Said I to Love: "What must I do, All in the summer nooning?"

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

Next day, while nooning several miles out from Casper, we heard the whistle of a locomotive.

From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)

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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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 Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)

They halted for a nooning; the oxen browsed a little on sage brush and dried grass; the men lunched on crackers, cold coffee and the remnants of breakfast, but our water keg was empty.

From A Gold Hunter's Experience by Hambleton, Chalkley J.




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