Mid-day

His screams brought the neighbours from their cottages, but they were unable to explain how it had all come about. It was true, they said, that about mid-day they had heard a great noise, but as that was a matter of daily occurrence they did not think much of it.

So it went on for many days, Bella seeing and talking to the Beast every day, till she got quite to like him, until one day the Beast did not come at his usual time, just after the mid-day meal, and Bella quite missed him.

The moon, on the breast of the new-fallen snow, / Gave a lustre of mid-day to objects below; / When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, / But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny rein-deer, / With a little old driver, so lively and quick, / I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

Some old folks said this cottage had been the church-house where in ancient days the people who came to divine service stayed between morning prayer and evensong, ate their mid-day meal and gave out and received their hebdomadal quotient of gossip.

A mid-day nap works wonders.

She's going to take a mid-day nap.

He didn't take a mid-day nap.

They will contact us before mid-day.