noon-tide

The Caliph Harun al-Rashid went up one noon-tide to his couch, to lie down; and mounting, found upon the bed-clothes semen freshly emitted; whereat he was startled and troubled with sore trouble.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

When she awoke it lacked but an hour of noon-tide, and she felt the life in her and was happy, but had no will to rise up for a while; for it was ajoy to her to turn her head this way and that to the dear and dainty flowers, that made the wide, grey, empty lake seem so far away, and no more to be dealt with than the very sky itself.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Sind over again — the same morning mist and noon-tide glare; the same hot wind and heat clouds, and fiery sunset, and evening glow; the same pillars of dust and “devils” of sand sweeping like giants over the plain; the same turbid waters of a broad, shallow stream studded with sand-banks and silt-isles, with crashing earth slips and ruins nodding over a kind of cliff, whose base the stream gnaws with noisy tooth.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The noon-tide of the summer day was past, as we were made acquainted with the fact, that the rising towers and pinnacles, to be discerned in the distance on our left, pertained to the beautiful "Forest City," next to Cincinnati the largest and most important city in the State of Ohio.

By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler

Under the guidance of the monkey, who had assumed the appearance of a strong and vigorous young athlete, Sam-Chaong proceeded on his journey -- over mountains so high that they seemed to touch the very heavens, and through valleys which lay at their foot in perpetual shadow, except only at noon-tide when the sun stood directly overhead.

Chinese Folk-Lore Tales

Scorn'd the sun's noon-tide splendour? for a pebble

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810

It tells of the day, of sunny noon-tide hours and banks, of the laborer wiping his brow and the bee humming amid flowers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

Speeding along on the wavy surface of the lake, we gained sight of the breakwater of _Sand Beach_ when the noon-tide of the day had not yet arrived.

By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler

We are in the midst of the fruition of their faith and earnest aspirations; and, surrounded by the noon-tide radiance of the blessings which have resulted from that act, we can not appreciate the glory of the morning star of our destiny as a nation.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

He determined to snatch his hasty noon-tide meal beneath its shelter; and in order to enter it, rolled away a block of stone which obstructed the mouth of the fissure.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various