How To Use noonday In A Sentence
- The magic of the elves is a twilight thing, the sound of distant silver horns, a fairy gold that turns to dust by noonday, and it is meant to chide the pride of foolish mortal men. MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)
- The noonday sun beat down fiercely; dusty air carried the stink of rotting garlic after a prolonged dry spell.
- Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
- He will bring forth your righteousness as the light And your judgment as the noonday.
- Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie. Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
- Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
- Meanwhile, nearly a calm tries the patience and wastes time; yet is the moonlit sea like a vast plain studded with glow-worms; and the noonday sea like lapis lazuli, flecked with silver. Extracts from a Lady's Log-Book,
- Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Isaiah 16.
- That Jim was not a cheat was clear to he as noonday.
- Almond trees and coconut palms provided abundant shade from the noonday sun.
