After she had seen Saskia and Dickson start she finished her housewifely duties, took Cousin Eugenie her breakfast, and made preparation for the midday dinner.
A little after midday he descended from a grimy third-class carriage at a little station whose name I have forgotten.
Remembering that here would be no midday dinner for him at home, his first step was to feed heavily at a restaurant.
Come indoors about middayand I'll gie ye a plate o' broth!
As he went he munched his buns, for he had resolved to have no plethoric midday meal, and presently he found the burnside nook of his fancy, and halted to smoke.
Cuthbert took our papers into the village on the morning after arrival, but returned at midday with no information and many shoulder shrugs.
Our tents were pitched in an orange grove, which provided shade from the midday sun, privacy from the midnight pilfering of Bedouins, and loveliness at all times.
Three weeks before, he had been taken in a motor-car to his grandfather's to midday dinner on Sunday, when his absolute refusal of food had spoiled the day and had occupied the attention and the efforts of the whole party.
As a rule the action is performed in a half-dream state, that condition between sleeping and waking which is found when the child is lying in the morning in her cot or in her perambulator after the midday nap.
He has been out in his perambulator half the morning, and for the other half has been deep in his midday sleep.
At midday the two friars rested in a sweet glade, and slept after a frugal meal, till the birds awoke them with their songs.
When the meal was over Grimbeard spoke: "We generally Test awhile and chew the cud after our midday meal, for our craft keeps us awake a great deal by night; and perhaps your tramp through the woods has made you tired also.
Yesterday at midday he began to mend, and fell asleep.
We went at middayto the shore with Mevrouw Conggrijp to bathe.
Yesterday at midday we went to the wood-carving works; it was very interesting.
At midday we took a little walk and wandered back to the shore.
Down the centre of the room was a deal table without a cloth, on which were laid some half-dozen places, each marked with a knife and fork and spoon and a thick glass, ready for the serving of the midday meal.
Otherwise everything outside was strangely silent; as the hot hours of midday and early afternoon went by there was no note of bird-music, nor any sound of wind in the elm-tops.
But, knowing that he meant to go by the slow midday train, his father proposed to stop the express for him that went through a few minutes before.
Milk was quite enough for him at his midday meal, but curds also had to be supplied because that was the family tradition.
You see, dinner is the midday meal all over Germany.
At midday most of them brought out their dinners on deck, and could be seen forward, each with a tin plate in the left hand, gesticulating amicably with clasp knives.
The ship, seen at midday standing inshore with a light wind, had not approached the bay near enough to be conveniently attacked till just after dusk.
Ellen was accustomed to put aside his share of the midday dinner, and to warm it up for him when he came home in the evening; at midday he ate bread-and- butter in the office.
At midday Lasse had tidied himself a trifle and began to brush his hat.
Pelle often made use of the midday rest to run over to the "Ark" in order to greet Father Lasse, who had obtained work in one of the granaries and was now able to get along quite nicely.
He had just got up and was sitting down to his midday meal.
But sometime about midday there was a sound of wild cheering behind us, and the wranglers rode up with the truants.
Also, a share of the midday lunch and twenty pounds more weight than you ought to have by the beauty-scale?
There was the usual communal midday dinner, with Arthur Alce back in his old place at Joanna's right hand.
Shortly after midday a loud shout rose from the Dutch ships, and their rigging was alive with men gazing southward and frantically waving their arms.
At Petersfield we stopped for our midday meal, and after giving our horses a well-earned rest, we resumed our way northward till the bold headline of Hindhead loomed up in front of us.
Then the wind fell lighter as the sun rose higher, andmidday found us forging slowly along off Littlehampton, on the Sussex coast.
By midday it blew a furious gale, accompanied by showers of blinding rain, and before long the Gannet was nowhere to be seen.
The whole of the forenoon passed without incident, but just at midday the lookout perceived a man leaping across the rocks by the tree-fringed shore.
Early in the morning they went on again, and passing through the friendly village and across the river, they came at midday to the farm.
At midday a good deal of the work still remained to be done.
In the quiet of the mountains I took my midday meal; there was about the place an awe-inspiring stillness.
By day the joyous Burma sun smiled upon all, and at midday poured its merciless heat down upon all mankind, unheeding the weary wanderer whose tramp was now near done.
Pat Murphy was not visible, but a few tootings of the compressed air whistle brought him from his house, where he was eating his midday meal.
We have had our midday meal," said Alvin, "and the regular dinner time is an hour or more away.
Then they had three hours to themselves to eat their midday meal and doze in the shed, and then worked again until sunset.
Their midday meal consisted of bread and fruit, costing but the smallest coin, and eaten by the wayside in the shade of a clump of trees.
Here they procured other horses, and it was not long after midday when they arrived at Hedingham.
The party from Holland disembarked at midday on the 9th of March.
A favourite midday resort is in the shade of the clumps of Sál dotted about the open plain, at some distance from the heavy forest.
Their midday rest is usually of a few hours only, but during that time they conceal themselves in the grass much after the manner of the sámbar.
It was not long after midday when we struck tents, were furnished with a new supply of cartridges and caps for our Enfields, and waited several minutes longer.
A few minutes after middaywe reached Savannah, and were ordered at once into camp.
Just after midday Igupa Topa went outside, saw the dead bodies, and said: "Why sleep all day?
At midday the southern forces had the advantage in the centre and the southern flank, and would have beaten Sehinom Chabatu but for his grandmother, his uncle, and his aunt.
But Sehinom forced him back, and at midday Chulup was where he had begun in the morning.
With this are connected the beautiful eyes and the good sight, which are certainly taken from the mythical description of the blazing midday sun.
The survey carried me on to midday and themidday meal.
The sun, that even at midday was low in the heavens, was still hidden behind the pinnacles of the berg, its feeble rays gilding the minaret-like projections, and causing them to scintillate gorgeous shafts of light.
Shortly after midday the aero-hydroplanes were recalled in order to recharge accumulators and replenish petrol tanks, and also to give the wearied though enthusiastic men a well-earned rest.
On the day that he was missing it appears that after the midday meal he had asked for a 'café natur' and for some reason had been refused.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "midday" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
