noonshine

“How long ago it seems, that spring noonshine when two young men (we will call them Dactyl and Spondee) set off to plunder the golden bag of Time.”

Pipefuls

“Perhaps it is the first two syllables of Hoboken's name that make it so desperately debilitating to the wayfarer in an April noonshine.”

Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

“There silent and unregarding Walter Skirving sat -- a man still splendid in frame and build, erect in his chair, a shawl over his knees even in this day of fervent heat, looking out dumbly on the drowsing, humming world of broad, shadowless noonshine, and often also on the equable silences of the night.”

The Lilac Sunbonnet

“As the bright salamander in fire of the noonshine exults and is glad of his day,”

A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI

“- The Moores came yesterday in their Curricle between one & two o'clock, & immediately after the noonshine which succeeded their arrival, a party set off for Buckwell to see the Pond dragged; - Mr. Moore, James, Edward & James Edward on horseback, John Bridges driving Mary in his gig.”

Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others

“We had a little water party yesterday; I and my two nephews went from the Itchen Ferry up to Northam, where we landed, looked into the 74, and walked home, and it was so much enjoyed that I had intended to take them to Netley to-day; the tide is just right for our going immediately after noonshine, but I am afraid there will be rain; if we cannot get so far, however, we may perhaps go round from the ferry to the quay.”

Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others