What is "midafternoon"

Usage examples of "midafternoon".

Tired of the endless round of quarrels her father was asked to resolve, she had left around midafternoon, before the Tintallionese demonologist had been apprehended.

It was midafternoon three days later when they finally rode into Hangtown and Hanna sat on the seat staring at everything, her head shaking slightly in disbelief.

Dove settled in there with a chessboard and Baron Engan, though by midafternoon she had a score of other opponents, including her aunt Nuritin.

My father there -- that portly unshaven gent with his thinning hair flying up and his front false tooth out, wearing a food-stained shirt and, at midafternoon, pajama bottoms, with a frayed belt cinched over his potbelly to bolster the elastic waistband.

By midafternoon the riders were sagging in their saddles, soaked with sweat and water, dirty, unkempt.

She looked out and saw the dusty lavender sky of midafternoon, which meant the winter day was endingthe tame skylights would soon be switched on, a whole dome of curved light, making it a city without shadows.

By the time the midafternoon bells rang the crowd had swollen again, filling Citadel Square to overflowing and blocking the wider passages of the Hill, and the narrow alleys behind the Wellhouse.

Brazil finally had to get a judge to grant permission for treatment, which would have resolved the matter had there not been a school-bus accident midafternoon.

Two or three times I thought we'd spot him just over the next hill, but he was a cagy bastard, and by midafternoon we still hadn't sighted him.

High Street was not crowded at this time of the day, midafternoon, most men in their countinghouses, or at siesta, or at the Club.

On the morning of the ninth day after their departure from the point off the mouth of the Rio Kongo, they spotted the telltale discoloration of the sea that denoted the debouchment of a large river to the immediate north, and by midafternoon, Abdullah was dickering with a pilot who had come out in a barge from the Port of Saints Peter and Paul.

She had been hearing people going past her door, on foot and with dogsleds, for the past half hour, though it was only midafternoon.

The visitation proceeded smoothly until midafternoon, when Dominick Amador showed up to hustle Demencio's overflow, exhibiting his seeping stigmata in a most vulgar way.

Despite the scorching midafternoon sun the crowds thronged downtown, from the Municipal Theater all the way up the mosaic sidewalks of the Avenida Rio Branco, past Praca Pio X and the magnificent old Candelaria Church, out along Avenida Presidente Vargas.

By midafternoon, their anabasis had carried the ten thousand from Chula Vista to Encinitas, from Coronado to El Cajon.