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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The middle of the day; noon.
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens. posted by Chris @ Thursday, October 14, 2004
Circling Emerson Chris 2004
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By mid-noon on Saturday, Mr Rusike, Mr Ncube and Mr Makunike were still believed to be in police custody.
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
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Risen on mid-noon; 3 and the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloudless.
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From their short half-hour of mid-noon rest, the whistle, piercing, inanimate call, has dared to command the slavish obedience of animate and intelligent beings.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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We really had no hopes of angling, for the hour was mid-noon, and the day was warm and still.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892
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The sun of the mid-noon was shining on a black speck floating from the topmost cliff of the Piz
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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What manner of man wilt thou prove after mid-noon, and at evening, thou that dost not prosper with thy swathe when thou art fresh begun?
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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So I went forth, attended by a black slave, after the mid-noon, for I was eager to expend my store, and cared not for the great heat.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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So I went forth, attended by a black slave, after the mid-noon, for I was eager to expend my store, and cared not for the great heat.
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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