It was blinding the sun with a matinal oblation of incense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference

Anything that interrupts a matinal sabbath repose is bound to stir things up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antonio Garcia-Martinez: Pseudorandomness, Or How I Got Into Y Combinator and Had a Child With a Woman I Barely Knew, Almost Simultaneously] Reference

Uns momentos dedicados a estas escrituras, e um pulo à praia aproveitando a frescura matinal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bons Dias] Reference

E quanto às curvas da estrada Mafra-Malveira, já ando a ponderar um passeio fotográfico matinal.    From Wordnik.com.  [...] Reference

Whether they are matinal or vespertine, crepuscular animals are responding primarily to selection pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The crepuscular life] Reference

I was awakened, as usual, by the outcries of the refractory negroes receiving their matinal stripes in the whipping-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

Returning to my bedchamber, I quickly performed my matinal ablutions, threw on my clothes, and hurried out to the kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

The excessively shy and unseasonable habits of the matinal worm never appealed favorably to me, but we have to have him once in a while, so here I am.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

The question crosses my mind of how many mornings will I be here to perform this matinal rite, but I push it back and relish the soothing warmth on my calves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference

Presently, glancing from his south window, he observed several matinal smokes rising from the chimneys of a country-house a mile away, on a slope fronting the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference

Knowing that the sun will be more punctual than the raven, I get my video camera out of my rucksack for the third time this morning, anticipating my matinal sun salute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference

Na segunda, procuram quebrar a má disposição matinal no metro, onde milhares de transeuntes passam na sua rotina diária. nas escadas rolantes estava um agente dos Improv a cumprimentar as pessoas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Improv Everywhere] Reference

I was too curious to lose my presence of mind or show that I was annoyed, and with my blandest smile inquired why I was honored with so matinal a visit from two strangers, when the following dialogue ensued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference

Emerging from my bedchamber, I could hear, issuing from our little kitchen, the comforting sounds of my tireless Muddy, who arose at every daybreak to attend, with religious regularity, to her matinal chores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

Hoy renazco a la vida, y ese rayo matinal que colora el.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novelas Cortas] Reference

Foto realizada en un partido matinal del Elche Ilicitano.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Le Pentagone resserre la vis sur le front des relations médias-militaires] Reference

Kate stood by the window, looking out drearily at the matinal sunlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel] Reference

Madeleine was preparing for her matinal walk, when her cousin was announced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

The matinal hour devoted to this refreshing walk was to both maidens the calmest and happiest of the twenty-four.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

Brotherhood in the chapel, performed the matinal breviary services, consisting of lauds, psalms, lections and prayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference

It is a lesser, even an ignominious one to narrate Lilly's kind of anguish during this matinal performance of her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star-Dust] Reference

The light wagons were made to hold two each instead of one, and the matinal snipe escaped death, and was happy over his early worm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by American Authors, Volume 5] Reference

Almost always the fresh and matinal song of one awoke the song of the others, who, more lazy, did not leave their nests at so early an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02] Reference

I shall not go to Bund-i-Kir, which looks too peaceful to disturb at this matinal hour, but there -- on the western shore of the Ab-i-Shuteit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

matinal = the morning smile; le sourire m du soir = the evening smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

It was one of the charms of the "matinal meal" (as the author of "Guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mark Of Cain] Reference

Senor alcalde, "said the clerk, after having exchanged with his superior a profusion of matinal salutations," what a splendid pair of pantaloons you have on! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora] Reference

These are the most matinal cries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico] Reference

In some thicket the matinal chirp of a bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile] Reference

= matinal = of the morning, matutinal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novelas Cortas] Reference