It was past mid-morning before we looked down on the beaten clay road winding through the low valley that gradually narrowed as it neared the western border of Hydlen-and the brimstone spring where we were headed.

The two kept working until past mid-morning, when they came to the end of the sheet of alloy.

Sweat poured down his neck, and the space between his shoulder blades itched-and it wasn't all that far past mid-morning.

Just past mid-morning, at the crest of one hill not markedly different from any other, Lewa nodded to Fornal and announced, "Hesra is over the next line of hills."

It was past mid-morning when Diess cantered up to the small grove of trees-Nylan didn't know what kind, except that they weren't olives-that marked the crossroads outside Yisara and provided the only shade in kays.

Since it was only just past mid-morning, there was a good chance it would pass before he was off duty and could head home to Lystrana.

It was past mid-morning, and they had been climbing hard.

While it was just past mid-morning, the menace that awaited me lay some distance ahead, and like Gairloch, I was thirsty.

This informal survey of the caer occupied me until well past mid-morning.

He studied the winding road ahead, a way that would take well past mid-morning to even get past the marsh and to the point where the road ran along the river again.