Here were no sweet watery roots for refreshment, and no berries; nor could Martin find a bush to give him a little shade and protection from the burning noonday sun.

"] Close under a stone they sat down to partake of the noonday meal, listening to the shrill winds sweeping over the dreary waste and gazed at the cloud-capped peak above.

some there were The noonday heats had dried, And some were dear yet could not bear A lovelier cheek beside,

Her eye in the act of turning to her task, caught the silhouette of old Gideon Himes's uncouth figure relieved against the noonday sky, as he sprang high, both arms flung up, the hands empty and clutching, and pitched headlong to his face.

" "That's a reindeer herd lying down for their noonday rest.

Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shall find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee.

Clear and clean is the beauty of those graves in the noonday brightness, delicate and tremulous in the early dawn and in the soft light of a fading day, and for us, who think of those dead with a proud and tender emotion, that beauty is, in some sort, a frail consolation.

She found a lotus by the stream; She plucked it from its noonday dream.

As he was away at our noonday dinner, generally we were the least disturbed then, and it was a lawless, irregular, and unceremonious affair.

Mountain airs bent and blunted the noonday sunbeams.

On land tawny sand whirling, green palm-fans swaying and whistling, men abroad in the noonday blaze rejoicing in the unwonted freshness.

And nodding, in her noonday nap, Secure from every sad mishap, I see in Grandma's dainty cap The bit of lace.

Northward Under the high unclouded sun That makes the ship and shadow one, I sail away as from the fort Booms sullenly the noonday gun.

After our noonday halt, we went over the hills to another stream, which came from the north-west.

There was no one but myself to trouble the solitude of this quiet nook on the wild hillside, all broken up into little gullies and ravines, where the aged chestnuts sheltered the tender moss and fern from the eager sunbeam, and kept the dew upon the bracken until the noonday hours.

A moonlight truth is a noonday lie.

Mothers whose children are obliged to go long distances to school, are often greatly perplexed to know what to put up for the noonday lunch which shall be both appetizing and wholesome.

On the 11th of December, while Mr. D.L. Moody was conducting a noonday prayer-meeting in the city of Edinburgh, Rev. Dr. Andrew Thompson read a letter from a Christian lady, the mother of one of these imperiled passengers, which contained the following account: "After the Trimountain left them, and they had examined their ship, many a heart failed, and they feared they would never see land again.

The restaurant, full of its noonday patrons, was a typical French café giving on the street.

Many of the boys brought their skates to school and never went home for lunch, but just ate a couple of sandwiches in order to spend as much as possible of the noonday pause on the ice.

In my noonday quest for food, if the day is fine, it is my habit to shun the nearer places of refreshment.

All this grandeur is austere; the air is chilled beneath the noonday rays; great, damp shadows creep along the foot of the walls.

Our noonday repast was composed of cold bam and fried potatoes.

By this time, in our noonday search for food, we have come into the thick of the restaurants.

If such be the case, the wonderful noonday silence of a tropical forest is, after all, due only to the dullness of our hearing; and could our ears catch the murmur of these tiny Maelstroms, as they whirl in the innumerable myriads of living cells which constitute each tree, we should be stunned, as with the roar of a great city.