nooning

Example Sentences

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A day's work in haying should and can be so planned as to give two hours' nooning in the hottest part of the day.

From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

Amy, away up on the fourth floor where she worked, knew nothing of this visit, and was a little dismayed when she received a summons to go down "to the 'Supe's' room for her nooning."

From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

Bert Chester, waiting before Zinkand’s an hour later, picked her a block away from the nooning crowd.

From The Readjustment by Irwin, Will

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 Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)

Even here the grama grass was not entirely missing, and a nooning of two hours was taken to let the animals crop as much of it as they could find.

From Bring Me His Ears by Mulford, Clarence E.