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- noun Plural form of
forenoon .
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Examples
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They did not know, and he never told them, of the rabbits he had killed, of the quail, young and old, he had captured and devoured, of the farmers 'chicken-roosts he had raided, nor of the cave-lair he had made and carpeted with dry leaves and grasses and in which he had slept in warmth and comfort through the forenoons of many days.
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The afternoons and early evenings he gave to the one, the nights to the other; the forenoons and parts of the nights were devoted to sleep for the twain.
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Module 3 takes place after about three months for two successive forenoons, the theme being “Managing Stress, Communication and Counselling.”
Archive 2008-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Module 3 takes place after about three months for two successive forenoons, the theme being “Managing Stress, Communication and Counselling.”
The Indian concept of leadership is based on the ‘Rajarshi’ model Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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What thoughts ran through Dutch's head on placid forenoons, when the river was an unbroken swell through his clip-on shades -- only to be disturbed by the first busload of day-trippers bursting out of the forest?
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She passed “long mornings” with them — the most dreary and serious of forenoons.
Vanity Fair 2006
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He plays pool at the billiard-houses, and may be seen engaged at cards and dominoes of forenoons.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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The petticoat, camisole, and curl-papers were her morning costume, in which, of forenoons, she had always been accustomed to 'go her household ways' in her own country.
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He had engaged another stenographer, and was now dictating, forenoons, his own views on the subject — views coordinated with those of Mr. Greenwood, whom he liberally quoted, but embellished and decorated in his own gay manner.
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Guests — there were usually guests — might suit their convenience in this matter — also as to the forenoons.
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