Roast lamb, boiled beef, "heaps of smoking roasted potatoes," pots of porter,a noontide meal for a hodman,and the hour midnight!

To noontide shades incontinent he ran, Where purls the brook with sleep-inviting sound, Or when Dan Sol to slope his wheels began, Amid the broom he basked him on the ground, Where the wild thyme and camomil are found; There would he linger, till the latest ray Of light sate trembling on the welkin's bound, Then homeward through the twilight shadows stray, Sauntering and slow: so had he passed many a day.

The swarm that in thy noontide beam were born? Gone to salute the rising morn.

And haply, though my harsh touch, faltering still, But mocked all tune and marred the dancer's skill, Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance forgetful of the noontide hour.

This is the season of blackwater fever, the pestilence that stalks in the noontide and the terror of tropical campaigning.

noon; midday, noonday; noontide, meridian, prime; nooning, noontime.

Light N. light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora. day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight, starlight, sunlight &c (luminary) 432; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday, noonday sun. glow &c v.; glimmering &c v.; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame.

Light N. light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora. day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight, starlight, sunlight &c (luminary) 432; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday, noonday sun. glow &c v.; glimmering &c v.; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame.

So they saw that about noontide all those who had come thither had taken their places, and that the field was clean, and that the two parties of combat were arrayed in order for battle.

Like the clouded sun of April, it can pierce through tears of sorrow; like the noontide sun of summer, it can blaze in warm smiles; like the northern lights of winter, it can gleam in depths of woe;but it is always the same, modified, doubtless, and rendered more or less patent to others, according to the natural amiability of him or her who bestows it.

Suddenly the noontide stillness was broken by a sound, deafening and shrill on ordinary occasions, but falling now like music on Madam Conway's ear, for by that sound she knew that Margaret was near.

The noontide of the summer-day is past, when all Nature slumbers, and when the ancients feared to sing, lest the great god Pan should be awakened.

Doth not the infant love to sport and laugh, And tie a kettle to a puppy's tail? Doth not the dimpled girl her 'kerchief don (Mocking her elder) mantilla wisethen speed To mass and noontide visits; where are bandied Smooth gossip-words of sugared compliment?

Come home and do housework, tend poultry and flowers, At noontide recline in our cool shady bowers; Could not such employment still yield you delight, Where birds are all singing from morning till night?

a ray has from thee gone, Dearer than noontide's gorgeous light, or Sabbath's music tone; A spirit!

There are hills that lie in the noontide calm, On the lap of the quiet earth; And, crown'd with gold by the ripened grain, Surround my place of birth.

And in its happy leisure sit and see The promises of more felicity: Two glorious nymphs, of your own godlike line, Whose morning rays like noontide strike and shine: 30 Whom you to suppliant monarchs shall dispose, To bind your friends, and to disarm your foes.

She had a tall man's height or more; Her face from summer's noontide heat No bonnet shaded, but she wore A mantle, to her very feet Descending with a graceful flow, 5

She had a tall man's height or more; And while, 'mid April's noontide heat, A long blue cloak the vagrant wore, A mantle reaching to her feet, No bonnet screened her lofty brow, Only she wore a cap as white as new-fallen snow.

[Footnote B: Compare the stanza in 'A Poet's Epitaph' (p. 77), beginning 'He is retired as noontide dew.' Ed.]

When, in "The Dead Heart," he is liberated from the Bastille, how old times slowly but surely dawn into consciousness, and how quickly the dawn hastens into the noontide of the tenderest fellowship and highest festival of joy.

Morning heat-mist, noontide glare, wind like a beast with flaming breath, a sky terrible in its stainless beauty, an inescapable sun-furnace that seemed to boil the brains in their skullsall these and the mockery of mirages that made every long white line of salt efflorescence a lake of cooling waters, brought the four tortured Legionaries close to death.

For instance, the southeast corner of that wood, where a reserve company are dug in, is visited by "Silent Susans" for about five minutes each noontide: it is therefore advisable to select some other hour for one's daily visit.

Poor mortal, your ears are dull, and you cannot hear; But we, we hear it, the breast of our mother abeat; Low, far away, sweet and solemn and clear, Under the hush of the night, under the noontide heat: And we sing sweet songs to our mother, for so we shall please her best, Songs of beauty and peace, freedom and infinite rest.

Underneath a tree at noontide Abu Midjan sits distressed, Fetters on his wrists and ancles, And his chin upon his breast; For the Emir's guard had taken, As they passed from line to line, Reeling in the camp at midnight, Abu Midjan drunk with wine.