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Example sentences for "about noon"

  • Hewer to White Hall, there to speak with Mr. Wren, which I did about several things of the office entered in my memorandum books, and so about noon, going homeward with W.

  • About noon I ended there, to my great content, and giving the clerks there 20s.

  • The 20th about noon we passed the tropic of Capricorn; and that evening the Dutch officers came and supped with me, whom I saluted with three guns at parting.

  • About noon we were near the Cape of Good Hope, to which we sailed in seventeen hours from Cape Aguillas.

  • Lightburn of the Fourth West Virginia in command.

  • But it was generally brought about by much milder methods of discipline.

  • But if Rosecrans's method was not an ideal one, it was at least vigorous, and every week showed that the little army was improving in discipline and in knowledge of duty.

  • General Garfield (then colonel of the Forty-second Ohio) had already been sent by General Buell with a brigade into the Big-Sandy valley, and General George W.

  • About noon, on Thursday (28th), Colonel Scammon joined me with the two regiments he had taken toward Manassas, and we learned the particulars of the sharp engagement he had at the railway bridge.

  • About noon I was ordered to march upon the latter road to Middletown.

  • This does not appear to have been so to any important extent, for no active fighting was going on elsewhere after Franklin's corps relieved Sumner's about noon.

  • About noon, the admiral having taken leave of a clergyman, and two friends who accompanied him, walked out of the great cabin to the quarter-deck, where two files of marines were ready to execute the sentence.

  • The condition of the atmosphere between the morning and about noon, when the effect was most evident, had undergone little change, excepting in its dryness.

  • About noon, finding pasture for the animals and bushes for firewood at Los Arenales, we stopped for the night.

  • About noon we began the tedious ascent of the Peuquenes ridge, and then for the first time experienced some little difficulty in our respiration.

  • About noon we left the canoes to go around a long bend in the river, and started on foot with a native guide for Yolofka.

  • About noon we came out of the mountains upon the sea beach and overtook the postilion, who had stopped to rest his tired dogs.

  • We left the hospitable cabin of the Sea Breeze about noon, and prepared to return to Gizhiga.

  • We parted at the gangway of the River Queen, about noon of March 28th, and I never saw him again.

  • About noon I had a message from General Hooker, saying he had had a pretty hard fight at the mountain-pass just beyond Ringgold, and he wanted me to come forward to turn the position.

  • Toward morning we reached Vienna, where I slept some hours, and the next day, about noon, we reached Fort Corcoran.

  • About noon we reached Carmona, which was founded by the Romans, as, indeed, were nearly all the towns of Southern Spain.

  • About noon, we reached a well, similar to that of the previous day, but of recent construction.

  • About noon, from the top of the last range of hills, we had a glorious view.

  • About noon, cannon shots were heard, and twenty boats were sent out from the city.

  • About noon, after winding about through the narrow defiles, the road began ascending.

  • About noon it commenced raining and our situation was soon anything but comfortable.

  • About noon, the road turned into a broad and beautiful avenue of poplars, down which we saw, at a distance, the triumphal arch terminating the Simplon road, which we had followed from Sesto Calende.

  • About noon a part of Tarleton's force gave out through heat and fatigue.

  • About noon, a heavy cannonade thundering along the rocky hills, and sharp volleys of musketry, proclaimed that the action was commenced.

  • Having forded the Haw one day about noon, they learned that he was encamped about three miles off, that his horses were unsaddled, and that everything indicated confident security.

  • About noon he commenced his retrograde march for Boston.

  • At length he succeeded in getting permission, about noon, to detach Morgan with his riflemen and Dearborn with his infantry from his division.

  • West wind with a hard gale, with which we sailed along the coast; about noon we cast anchor in 12 fathom clayey bottom without any shelter from the W.

  • Aru, we turned our course westward; about noon we saw the island of Aru ahead of us.

  • About noon we reached an inn, where travellers stop who are going to Toluca, and where we halted to collect our scattered forces.

  • About noon, the aspect of things became more favourable.

  • About noon, passed through the small village of Liberty--a strong Union place.

  • Finally, about noon, were ordered to unharness horses, but to hold ourselves in readiness to move at any moment.

  • On Sunday, August 10th, about noon, were ordered to be ready to march at 4 o'clock, but shortly before the appointed time the order was countermanded.

  • About noon, the wagons arrived; but no further move was made, and we quietly remained in camp.

  • About noon we reached the south fork of the Platte and crossed it immediately.

  • We continued our march up the south fork of the Platte some ten miles, where we crossed over the bluffs which lie between the two streams, and after going two miles we reached the north fork at about noon.

  • About noon we stopped at the cabin of an old Indian, of whom we purchased an additional supply of corn at $1.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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