Lexicographical Neighbors of Midnoon
Literary usage of Midnoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... noonday (rather more definite and formal than "noon"), noontide (literary),
midnoon (literary; strictly considered, pleonastic). Antonyms: see MIDNIGHT. ..."
2. The Masque Torn Off by Thomas De Witt Talmage (1878)
"Before I get through with this series of Sabbath morning discourses, I shall show
you the midnoon of its magnificent progress and philanthropy, ..."
3. Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (English) by Helena Swan (1904)
"better 'tis to walk with Hope Thro' starless night, than thro' midnoon with Fear.
FREDERICK TENNYSON, Daphne and other Poems : Halcyone, II. II. 29-30. ..."
4. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"At high midnoon of midnight half withdrawn, Bared all the sudden deep divine ...
Or at midnoon to me Swimming, and birds about my happier The deep dark air ..."
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