nooned

Here we "nooned", stretching our bodies along the green-sward.

The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850

We nooned without incident; just an hour or two, thinks I, and we'll be through this horror and can lie up until other trains appear, and then head for Santa Fe in safety, with some other idiot riding wagon-boss.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

We nooned in a secluded cove where a few water-fowl were disporting themselves out beyond the shallows, and Uliba asked me if I fancied duck for tiffin.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

We nooned without incident; just an hour or two, thinks I, and we'll be through this horror and can lie up until other trains appear, and then head for Santa Fe in safety, with some other idiot riding wagon-boss.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

We nooned without incident; just an hour or two, thinks I, and we'll be through this horror and can lie up until other trains appear, and then head for Santa Fe in safety, with some other idiot riding wagon-boss.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

They had nooned in a grove alongside a church, white clapboard and brick.

The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

They had nooned in a grove alongside a church, white clapboard and brick.

The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

They had nooned in a grove alongside a church, white clapboard and brick.

The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

We nooned beside a small stream, eating E-rations rather than trying to heat any food.

Dark Piper Norton, Andre 1968

Too happy in the recovery of Clark's and our own animals to waste time in hue-and-cry, I loaded my two reclaimed pack-beasts with all that our commissariat needed, -- nooned at Clark's, on my way back, the third day after leaving the Valley for Mariposa, and that same night was among my rejoicing comrades at the head of the Great Yo-Semite.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various