matutinal

We went on, while the city continued to resume its matutinal activities around us.

"I thought you wanted to see their matutinal habits, Varian?"

I'll pen my sad matutinal verse.

Then I turned to the pretty creature by my side, and casting my arms around her neck, wooed her to a matutinal embrace.

W.G. belched softly; punished for breaking his own rule against matutinal speechifying.

They were very merry and matutinal in their ways; plunged their arms boldly in, and seemed not to feel the shock.

Somethin' rum, too, about his matutinal labors.

This entertain- ment, he thought, was free, matutinal, and the real nittygritty stuff of life, three advantages it had over the cinema.

"Ata," explained So-ta, when I questioned her as to the purpose of this matutinal rite; but that was later.

This he surreptitiously attached to the gas jet, and secretly thereon made coffee and cooked his matutinal hard-boiled egg.

Udders advertise themselves: pale yellow matutinal full to bursting: nine cows, thirty-six teats, eighteen eels.

I was considerably astonished at this early morning visit, for Markham well knew that Vance, who rarely rose before noon, resented any intrusion upon his matutinal slumbers.

("He spoke, as to cheek and chin, of the joy of the matutinal steel" is Nick's Jamesian circumlocution for someone clean-shaven.)

Nothing, indeed, save that tiresome noise was audible in the deserted church, where the matutinal sweeping was unknown before the early masses had somewhat warmed the air of the place.

This is the very 'sprite' of Walton; this has that vernal and matutinal air of opening European literature, full of birds' music, and redolent of dawn.

We've got their flight habits well documented now, we've caught the fishing act often enough to establish that drill, but I don't know much about their personal life, their matutinal habits.

While engaged in this matutinal operation I struck my hand against something and looking, observed that it was the hideous little ivory image of Zikali, which he had set about my neck.

As Slater grew older, it appeared, his matutinal aberrations had gradually increased in frequency and violence; till about a month before his arrival at the institution had occurred the shocking tragedy which caused his arrest by the authorities.

He was going his matutinal rounds to collect cabbage-leaves, turnip-tops, potato-skins, and the miscellaneous refuse of the dinner-pot, which the thrifty housewives of the neighborhood were accustomed to put aside, as fit only to feed a pig.

As much as caffeine has become a matutinal necessity, a means of brokering, yet again, an uneasy truce with daylight, the kind of laughter - a well-aimed dart - induced by the larky bulletin above has become a no less necessary stimulant.

Is all this precious time to be lavished on the matutinal repair and beautifying of an elderly person, who never goes abroad, whom nobody ever visits, and from whom, when she shall have done her utmost, it were the best charity to turn one's eyes another way?

The skipper of our cargo boat roused me just as we turned, putting under my sleepy nostrils a handful of toasted beans on a leaf, and a small cup full of something that was not coffee, but smelt as good as that matutinal beverage always does to the tired traveller.