twelve-o'-clock

Updated: July 26, 2025

The moment they had embarked, Peep-of-Day Boys, Heart-of-Oak Boys, Twelve-o'-clock Boys, Heart-of-Flint Boys, and all the bloody boyhood of the Bog of Allen, would have proceeded to the ancient work of riot, rapine, and disaffection.

Sydney Smith - Peter Plymley's Letters, and selected essays