What is "noontide"

Usage examples of "noontide".

The noontide sun was darkened with that smoke, The winds of eve dispersed those ashes gray.

With the delight of a remembered dream, As are the noontide plumes of summer winds Satiate with sweet flowers.

And when at length I sat down, somewhere on the Embankment, it was rather to gaze at leisure than to rest, for I felt no weariness, and the sun, still pouring upon me its noontide radiance, seemed to fill my veins with life.

I was tempted to set off at once, and find again that spot under the high elm trees, where, as I smoked a delicious pipe, I heard about me the crack, crack, crack of broom-pods bursting in the glorious heat of the noontide sun.

Would the great elm-branches temper so delightfully the noontide rays beating upon them?

Below me, but far off, is the summer sea, still, silent, its ever-changing blue and green dimmed at the long limit with luminous noontide mist.

Here, with the wind in lovely locks laid bare, With arms oft raised in dedicative prayer, Lost in mute rapture and adoring wonder, He stood, till the far noise of noontide thunder, Rolled down upon the muffled harmonies Of wind and waterfall and whispering trees, Made loneliness more lone.

Whoever heard forgot Errand and aim, and knights at noontide here, Riding from fabulous gestes beyond the seas, Would follow, tranced, and seek .

A breath of breeze lifted the layered foliage of the trees that overarched the village, passed, and restored the noontide stillness.

At noontide, too, Valmai had regained her composure, and had risen from her attitude of despair with a pale face and eyes which still showed traces of their storm of tears.

Before new nestlings sing, Before cleft swallows speed their journey back Along the trackless track,-- God guides their wing, He spreads their table that they nothing lack,-- Before the daisy grows a common flower, Before the sun has power To scorch the world up in his noontide hour.

Yet, as the morning wore away and noontide passed, they found no trace of the Chief Steward or Eilonwy.

She was radiantly lovely, in the very noontide of her resplendent youth, the well-born widow of a gentleman of Bearn.

Even at noontide it sat with her in the arbor, when the sunshine threw its broken flakes of gold into the clustering shade.

Batouch and Ali were in the court of the house, talking to the Arab guardian who dwelt there, but their voices were not audible by the well, and absolute silence reigned, the intense yet light silence that is in the desert at noontide, when the sun is at the zenith, when the nomad sleeps under his low-pitched tent, and the gardeners in the oasis cease even from pretending to work among the palms.