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Example sentences for "eight minutes"

  • When it has boiled seven or eight minutes strain it on to the beaten yolks of eight eggs, and three table spoonsful of loaf sugar.

  • When the pudding has boiled six or eight minutes turn it over, as it is apt to settle.

  • When you have beaten them seven or eight minutes, put some cream into a large shallow dish, and turn the jelly and eggs, into the center of it.

  • Thus the sun of eight minutes ago is a class of particulars, and what I see when I now look at the sun is one member of this class.

  • Physics tells us that certain electromagnetic waves start from the sun, and reach our eyes after about eight minutes.

  • Eight minutes past, it may be remembered, was the hour for the assault upon the "D" line.

  • Light is propagated from luminous Bodies in time, and spends about seven or eight Minutes of an Hour in passing from the Sun to the Earth.

  • Sounds move about 1140 English Feet in a second Minute of Time, and in seven or eight Minutes of Time they move about one hundred English Miles.

  • Put a piece of butter on each one; sprinkle the top with crumbs, and place in the oven for five to eight minutes.

  • Season highly with salt, pepper, and cayenne, and let simmer for six or eight minutes.

  • Dry it, rub it with butter, and broil five to eight minutes, turning it constantly.

  • The equator makes an angle with the ecliptic of twenty-three degrees and twenty-eight minutes.

  • Roll each square into a round dumpling; put these into a pan with boiling; salted water and let them cook covered for six or eight minutes.

  • Put them in a stew-pan, with boiling water to cover them, and then boil gently for seven or eight minutes.

  • The egg then cooks slowly in the water, which gradually cools, for seven or eight minutes, when the white should be about the consistency of jelly.

  • The steam should continue for seven or eight minutes.

  • Boil the whole seven or eight minutes, stirring it frequently.

  • Cases are reported where restoration has been possible within a period of a half-hour of suspension; although the fatal period is usually five to eight minutes at most.

  • Third horse: In five minutes respiration ceased; tracheotomy performed, but there was no attempt to breathe; eight minutes, heart ceased to beat.

  • Continue this operation six or eight minutes, then take it off the fire, and let it stand awhile.

  • Lay each slice in half a sheet of white paper, well buttered; twist the ends of the paper, and broil the slices over a slow fire six or eight minutes.

  • I know that I cannot live on eight minutes' sleep in twenty-four hours, but I do that also.

  • He could now read from a hundred and twenty to two hundred books in an evening and night; and he slept in the accelerated state and could get a full night's sleep in eight minutes.

  • He says we should have been over Webster at six minutes after three and that we’re eight minutes late,” he repeated.

  • When’ll that bring us to London—an hour and twenty-eight minutes late?

  • Eight minutes later, we ought to grab the bag off the tug and drop our ‘good-bye.

  • Place the sauce-pan in a dish of cold water and stir for about eight minutes.

  • Remember that the whites of the eggs must be added as soon as the mixture cools, which should be in about six or eight minutes, and that the mixture must be beaten until it begins to harden.

  • Small fish, like trout, require from four to eight minutes to cook.


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