nooning

He wants to be in position to attack the village just at the nooning.

You stop every day for a hot nooning, unless there's no towns.

I might visit my property in company with the hired man during the 'nooning.'

We paused in a small clearing to break our fast when a pale sun marked a nooning.

"It would seem that in my haste I carried off your nooning.

We stopped for a nooning at a strongly built little inn called the Schwarenbach.

But this, Ginny was soon to discover, was to be no ordinary nooning.

Return one hour after the nooning."

It was another thirteen-hour stretch (including an hour's "nooning.")

We took our nooning on Ten Mile Creek, and since then we had come a mite further.

Upon one occasion I was traveling in the Sonora region, and stopped for an hour's nooning, to rest my horse and myself.

'For my nooning,' she told the herder, who then assured her that he would provide her with that meal. '

We took our nooning under a sand-hill, covered with beach-grass, in a dreary little hollow, on the top of the bank, while it alternately rained and shined.

So the boy halted, wondering what he could have done - for she had said she would look at pictures all through the nooning - and she walked on, crying.

They walked throughout the rest of the morning, trying to keep a steady, swift pace, chewing hunks ofjoumeybread for their nooning without halting, then slogging determinedly into the afternoon.

She had seen Carl that morning and he had smiled at her a trifle shamefacedly, but since their nooning he had been busy with their preparations for defense.

In riding skirt, with a packet of cheese and bread for my nooning, I rode with an armsman in the morning, inspecting the fields; visiting our outposts in the hills.

We made our nooning on the Huerfano River about ten miles east of Greenhorn, and made a resting time of it, for I wanted to ride into the place about sundown.

After they had stopped to rest for what the men called the nooning, it was Ginny's turn to take the reins, and she sat uncomfortably on the high seat, glad for once of the unbecoming sunbonnet she wore.

The nooning, planned to last no more man an hour, stretched on as the women slept Jason was in bad shape from his wounded arm, and Brian was fighting deep, but soon he must awaken Jason to take over the watch.

"My wife, she'll be back in the nooning," said Karal, moving uncertainly around the room as Miles and Dea settled themselves on a bench and Harra curled up with her arms around her knees on the floor beside the fieldstone hearth.

Key selections like "The Banjo Player," "Farmer's Nooning" and "Dance of the Haymakers" demonstrate Mount's efforts to build great pictorial statements, on a level with the Old Masters, but using the rural life of his surroundings as subject matter.

A German gentleman and his two young-lady daughters had been taking their nooning at the inn, and when they left, just ahead of us, it was plain that their driver was as drunk as ours, and as happy and good-natured, too, which was saying a good deal.

"No work, no play, no idle strolling was known; no sign of human life or motion was seen except the necessary care of the patient cattle and other dumb beasts, the orderly and quiet going to and from the meeting, and at the nooning, a visit to the churchyard to stand by the side of the silent dead."