How To Use Noonday In A Sentence
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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)
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The noonday sun beat down fiercely; dusty air carried the stink of rotting garlic after a prolonged dry spell.
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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
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He will bring forth your righteousness as the light And your judgment as the noonday.
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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 . . .
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Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
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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,
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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.
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That Jim was not a cheat was clear to he as noonday.
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Almond trees and coconut palms provided abundant shade from the noonday sun.
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It was hot, nearly 90 degrees in the noonday sun.
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Jean Valjean, as we have just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been unrecognizable in full noonday.
Les Miserables
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For a few days prior to this date, look at the noonday sun; it will appear as if it is in the same location in the sky.
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That's the lightless pit of hell calling the noonday sky black.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty
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Cemeteries are impeccably maintained by their respective governments; prestigious memorials and little white crosses in neat rows reflect the noonday sun.
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She believes that the ritual trappings were off by about ten feet, and what was summoned just outside the magic circle was the famous Noonday Demon, rumors of which her father and his corpselike pals had whispered after the slaughter of miserable afternoons at the House of Ko-Reck-Shun: the savage demon of the second rate, the demon of everyday evil.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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On one side of the river there is a fishing village of mat and attap hovels on stilts raised a few feet above the slime of a mangrove swamp; and on the other an expanse of slime, with larger houses on stilts, and an attempt at a street of Chinese shops, and a gambling-den, which I entered, and found full of gamblers at noonday.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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Three other roommates are asleep upstairs, while downstairs the noonday sun floods in through the windows.
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The staple noonday meal is foo-foo, a dough-like paste made of cassava pounded into flour.
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The noonday sun poured warm autumn sunlight through the large windows behind them, casting their shadows across the blue and white tiled floors.
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We intend to show, as in the clear light of noonday, that it is the conduct of Mr. Sumner and other abolitionists, and not that of the slaveholder, which is rebuked by the life and writings of the great apostle.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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In passing out of the belt of scrub into the openly timbered grassy flat of the river, Brown descried a kangaroo sitting in the shade of a large Bastard-box tree; it seemed to be so oppressed by the heat of the noonday sun as to take little notice of us, so that Brown was enabled to approach sufficiently near to shoot it.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
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the torrid heat of the noonday sun
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Cassian himself dwells on the horrible liability of the monks to the principal vices which infest human nature — gluttony, uncleanness, avarice, anger, vainglory, pride — above all, that despairing and unaccountable melancholy which they call acedia, and describe as “the demon that walketh in the noonday.”
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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And there, in the dusty noonday sun, the kids beheld a glittering pile of golden coins.
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Sharing the family passion for reading didn’t endear Riverview to them at all; a book could be carried in a saddlebag or a jacket pocket and read with far more pleasure in the noonday shade of a wilga than in a Jesuit classroom.
The Thorn Birds
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That's the lightless pit of hell calling the noonday sky black.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty
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a glowing arch, quivering with an intensity of color, such as fascinates the eye of the eagle to the noonday sun.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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It prefers a sunny site, but the noonday sun will cause the yellow leaves to scorch.
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As we talked, Larry leaned on a cedar fence post, squinting in the noonday sun, and pointed out landmarks on the Bush ranch, three quarters of a mile away.
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A man fell asleep on the beach under the noonday sun and suffered a severe sunburn.
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The boat drifted back into the noonday light.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
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A herd of horses came running over the green meadow towards the tree where he and Pamela were preparing a picnic in the noonday sun.
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The web's ability to dredge duplicitous schemes from the corporate-governmental shadows into the noonday glare is a great advance, one with implications that reach far beyond food policy.
Fortunately, 'Corn Sugar' Has Become a Sticky PR Mess
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And here came in once more the fabaceous maker and marker of destiny, saying that blind justice decreed, that, inasmuch as sound is wont to rise, he who was noonday
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
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His guilt is as clear as the sun at noonday.
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Flowing fountains in courtyards filled with the perfume of jasmine created cool retreats from the harsh noonday sun.
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It was impossible to work in the heat of the noonday sun .
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Out on the street, the noonday sun was heating up.
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The clear metallic sound of the "strake" or sharpening strop, covered with pure white Loch Skerrow sand set in grease, which scythemen universally use in Galloway, cut through the slumberous hum of the noonday air like the blade itself through the grass.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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They walked in the blazing noonday sun with a new purposeful stride.
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I put my hand over my eyes and strained to see what was happening through the bright noonday sun.
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In the blazing noonday sun, they linger in bus stops, near temples, hotels, supermarkets and glitzy shops fronts.
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I've been concerned that my medication has occasionally not been up to the job, and if it weren't for the unbridled joy of Lucy and Tessa, I'd begin to feel the familiar clutches of what Andrew Solomon called the noonday demon.
Nad hen j��c eto
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As was customary for the Sangha they broke for lunch to collect alms for the noonday meal, the King wondering where his son was, travelled by gharry down to the central marketplace.
Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2
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He sat at one of the outside tables taking in the heat of the noonday sun.
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If McKibben highlights pride and avarice, R. R. Reno contends that the most corrosive vice of our age is sloth, spiritual apathy, what the monks called ‘the noonday devil’ of acedia.
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There, however, the tartana and the guide were ready; so, after taking a noonday’s repast with my fellow traveller at the posada, I set out with him on our journey.
The Alhambra
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But it is not the accusation that admits of defence, the arrow that flies at noonday, that is most to be feared.
Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
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They walked in the blazing noonday sun with a new purposeful stride.
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The bar was dark with shadow despite the noonday sun that blazed on shuttered windows.
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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 . . .
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Since the word for "noonday" comes from this root, the meaning "an opening for light" (Lichtoeffnung) is the more appropriate, not roof.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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R. R. Reno's connection of an overblown fear of suffering with acedia or spiritual apathy in ‘Fighting the Noonday Devil’ (August / September) gave me an ‘aha!’
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But that morning freshness has been supplanted by a full and mellow noonday contentedness which is not without its placid appeal.
The Prairie Child
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Under the aching noonday glare, when the green things drooped and the birds withdrew to the depths of the forest, and all nature drowsed, his great "Ha! ha!" and "Ho! ho!" rose up to the sky and challenged the sun.
MOON-FACE
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The painting is organized about a young reaper enjoying his noonday rest.
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Under the deep shade of some tall trees, sheltered from the noonday sun, we lay down to rest ourselves and enjoy a most patriarchal dinner, -- some dry biscuits, a few bunches of grapes, and a little weak wine, savoring more of the borachio-skin than the vine-juice, were all we boasted; yet they were not ungrateful at such a time and place.
Charles O'Malley — Volume 1
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I would have much rather preferred to sit out here and let my skin burn underneath the noonday sun.
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A planter of about thirty years of age, clad in buckskin shortclothes, sat smoking his pipe, after his noonday meal, in the wide entry that ran through his double log house from the south side to the north, the house being of the sort called alliteratively "two pens and a passage.
Duffels
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The noonday sun was beginning to become unbearable.
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I almost passed out from the noonday sun and humidity at the Singapore Botanical Gardens until the director, Dr. Chin See Chung, another Yale grad, whisked out a giant parasol for me as if I were modern-day memsahib.
Dana Kennedy: Strict Singapore May Be the Most Surprising Place on Earth
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In the hot noonday sun, students sat on the grass, and faculty in shirtsleeves conducted class.
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He was bareheaded, and the noonday sun turned his red-gold hair to flame.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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To this day the odour of matting brings back to Honora the sense of closed shutters; of a stifling south wind stirring their slats at noonday; the vision of Aunt Mary, cool and placid in a cambric sacque, sewing by the window in the upper hall, and the sound of fruit venders crying in the street, or of ragmen in the alley -- "Rags, bottles, old iron!
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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In the blazing noonday sun, they linger in bus stops, near temples, hotels, supermarkets and glitzy shops fronts.
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The noonday sun beat down fiercely; dusty air carried the stink of rotting garlic after a prolonged dry spell.
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Her charms will beguile thee when noonday is nigh,
Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent
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The torrents of Maine are hasty young heroes, galloping so hard when they gallop, and charging with such rash enthusiasm when they charge, hurrying with such Achillean ardor toward their eternity of ocean, that they would never know the influence, in their heart of hearts, of blue cloudlessness, or the glory of noonday, or the pageantries of sunset, -- they would only tear and rive and shatter carelessly.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
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The flowers had been destroyed by the time we came out to eat last night, and when we got up this morning and walked through the noonday sun to buy breakfast (it had been a late night) all trace of them was gone.
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One day when lecturing at an Iowa chautauqua, I remained in the beautiful park for the noonday meal.
The Mother and Her Child
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Ever since the winter solstice last Dec. 22, the days have been getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere and the noonday sun has climbed higher in the sky.
