nooning

Example Sentences

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They were nooning at the time and somehow or other the usual question of revolver-handling had come up.

From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)

Why, is this where you spend your nooning, Cloud?

From Cloudy Jewel by Hill, Grace Livingston

But the balancing of the can requires a happy combination of stones about the fire that the brief nooning of a day's tramp seldom affords, and baking is still more uncertain.

From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge

Amy proposed the matter the very next day, at "nooning," and secured the members as mentioned by her to Gwendolyn.

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

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