He told us about the wanderers and prospectors he had rescued from death by starvation and thirst; he told us about the terrific noonday heat of summer; and about the incredible and horrible midnight furnace gales that swept down the valley.
About one o'clock we halted on the edge of a deep wooded ravine to take our usualnoonday rest.
In the soft morning light the red mesas, the yellow walls, the black domes were less harsh than in the full noonday sun, purer than in the tender shadow of twilight.
Twilight was dropping her wing, and the shadows were fast collecting round the square windows, which, narrow and grated, would scarcely at noonday let in light enough to enliven the human eye.
The shadows of noonday lengthened into the shades of afternoon; they crept up the hillsides until only the higher peaks remained a-shine; evening came.
When the sun had reached Its noonday height, a people and its king Around their minster pressed.
Yesterday gave us a noonday and morning temperature of +28°.
The southern horizon was a zone of red light; and although the clear blue soon absorbed it, we could read small print with a little effort at noonday by turning the book to the south.
Thirty more days, and we may take a noonday walk; forty-four, and the sun comes back.
Next day we made our noondayhalt at Poplar Grove, the scene of one of Lord Roberts's fights, and farther on we passed Koodoos Rand Drift, where General French had cut off Cronje and forced him back on Paardeberg.
It was a glorious day of blue skies and bright sun, with just enough breeze to prevent the noonday from being too hot.
As the heat increased, the shelling grew certainly slacker, and, after an hour or two spent in exchanging greetings in the early morning, both besieged and besiegers seemed to slumber during the sultry noonday hours.
Shun idle, noonday slumber, nor delay The urgent calls of Nature to obey.
The Salernitan writers were not believers innoonday sleep, though one might have expected that the tradition of the siesta in Italy had been already established.
At the Cleaverage place they were making ready for the noondaymeal when Lance brought [85] his news home.
I left the noonday meal that I might be led at the creature's will.
In one of the narrow ways between the tents an old woman, very bowed and voluminously clad, prepared a great hamper of lentils and another of papyrus root for the noonday meal.
The women saw her come and old Deborah, who was preparing vegetables for the noonday meal, left the fires and hastened to the shelter.
Bathed in the golden light of that autumn noonday sun, I saw and recognized a long-familiar scene, and for a moment I reeled on the slender step as I did so, and all grew dark around me.
Under the hot noonday sun each waft of air that stirred across it was fragrant with mingled perfumes, of the scent of hawkweed and lotus and sweet clover blooms.
When the Rabbi entered, he screamed aloud, and put his hands over his eyes, for the lustre of the jewels dazzled him, as if he had looked upon the noonday sun.
The distance to Shiraz was not far, and Jussuf reached it with his new friend the next day before the noonday heat.
There the King, with all his Court and the grandees of the kingdom, were present at the noonday service.
I know that, at the time of its noonday promenade, it has nothing but a cup of coffee in its stomach; that it has emerged from a house as cold and dim as a cellar; and that it will presently go home to dine on rice and boiled beef.
The days passed monotonously, with perpetual grooming and exercising, and the noonday hours spent beneath the palms, alleged to be shady.
This walk now, as the noonday sun shone perpendicularly through the chequered leaves, was entirely deserted; at least no other forms than those of Olinthus and the priest infringed upon the solitude.
We left Arbaces upon the shores of the noonday sea, after he had parted from Glaucus and his companion.
Nor did he heed the blue-bird singing in the noonday sun to the arbutus blossoms crushed by his unwitting feet, or notice the petulant squirrel flinging down the shells of his nuts, as if in mockery at the passing stranger.
The time for the noonday meal arrived, but he heeded it not.
The noonday sun looked down upon a scene that to the eye unskilled in these things was as confusion worse confounded.
The desert lay white and palpitating beneath the noonday glare, and from the outermost rim of desolation came dancing "dust-devils" whirling and gliding through the mazes of their eerie dance.
The Noonday produced five million dollars and was operated until silver and lead took a price dive.
He chose to begin operations on the Noonday and sent Ernie Huhn, an experienced miner to deepen the shaft.
In the next six years the Noonday produced approximately a gross of nine million dollars and a net of probably six million dollars.
It adjoins the Noondayand was a valuable property which belonged to Dr.
But they had stood for ages the same, braving the fury of the wintry storm as its surging blasts swept over them, or parched by the burning rays of the noonday sun, as he poured his fierce scorching beams upon them.
Her son had sunk down, while his meridian sun was shining in its noonday splendor; but she had lived till the winter of life had scattered its snows upon her head, and was now falling, like a shock of corn, fully ripe.
Most of the people whom she saw passing had letters or papers, and, in fact, they were coming from the post-office, where the noonday mails had just been opened.
She shaded her eyes for a better look, when the noondaygun boomed from the citadel; the bell upon the chapel jangled harshly, and those strange maskers, those quaint black birds with white breasts and faces, flocked indoors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noonday" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
