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Example sentences for "fifteen minutes"

  • So even her walk that the burden never sways; yet so rapid her motion that however good a walker you may fancy yourself to be you will tire out after a sustained effort of fifteen minutes to follow her uphill.

  • Fifteen minutes later, Mademoiselle and I find ourselves under the awnings shading the saloon-deck of the Guadeloupe.

  • At the end of fifteen minutes he rinsed his face and dried it, sighing with relief.

  • Fifteen minutes later he said: "You sure handed me a hot one.

  • Pick and draw them very carefully, salt and dredge with flour, and roast with a quick fire ten or fifteen minutes.

  • Then take it from the fire, and keeping the pot well covered, let it finish by remaining in the steam for ten or fifteen minutes.

  • When boiled quite tender, season with salt and pepper; let them simmer ten or fifteen minutes longer; then take the chicken from the broth and remove all the large bones.

  • With the best vacuum that he could then get by means of the ordinary air-pump, the carbons would last, at the most, only from ten to fifteen minutes in a state of incandescence.

  • They could have been embodied by interlineations and marginal notes in the ordinary way, and certainly would not have required more than ten or fifteen minutes of his time.

  • The receipt written for cabbages will answer as well for sprouts, only they will be boiled enough in fifteen minutes.

  • Add one teaspoon of sugar and the whipped whites of three eggs, and boil very fast for about fifteen minutes, skimming well.

  • Place mackerel in shallow kettle, pour water over to cover and boil ten to fifteen minutes or until flesh separates from the bone.

  • Cut into pieces and boil about fifteen minutes, pour off this water and put on to boil again with boiling water.

  • Cover with greased paper and bake ten to fifteen minutes.

  • Small fish require from ten to fifteen minutes, large fish from fifteen to twenty-five.

  • Put the cake batter in a large, well-greased fruit cake pan, lined with paper which had been greased and a trifle of flour sifted over, and bake in an oven with a steady heat about one hour and fifteen minutes.

  • Stand the bake-dish containing the macaroni in a hot oven ten or fifteen minutes, until lightly browned on top.

  • It shipped no more water, or very little, and we were not compelled to be on the look-out for squalls, which occurred every ten or fifteen minutes, with a violence that it would not do to trifle with.

  • Lucy, I'll be back in fifteen minutes; then we'll bear Miles off in triumph, to your own house.

  • I cried, lowering my glass from the first good look of the stranger; "and by keeping away two points, we shall speak her in fifteen minutes.

  • As soon as the fat on top hardens take it off, boil it fifteen minutes in clear water, chill, skim off, and clarify by frying slices of raw potato in it.

  • Fifteen minutes to the pound, reckoned from the beginning of simmering, is the standard allowance.

  • You could walk across there in fifteen minutes; but if you made the journey around the cape on a raft, you traveled thirty-five miles to accomplish the same thing.

  • In fifteen minutes more, at his present rate of gain, the driver behind would be up alongside, and then--who knew what would happen?

  • Fifteen minutes; yes, sir," said Tuttle, and he backed from the place.

  • If you leave the house in fifteen minutes we shall arrive about the same time.

  • It will then serve most usefully for relieving the congestive bronchial catarrh of children, being sweetened, and given one third at a time every ten or fifteen minutes until it provokes vomiting.

  • A dose of four or five drops, if given at once, and perhaps repeated in fifteen minutes, will straightway prove of singular service.

  • Cover and cook for ten or fifteen minutes.

  • Replace the upper side of the fish, cover with a cupful of Cream Sauce and put in the oven for ten or fifteen minutes.

  • Bring to the boil, pour over the fish and bake for ten or fifteen minutes.

  • Fifteen minutes after he had struck the shelter of the camp he was again in pursuit.

  • Fifteen minutes sufficed to load the sledge; and while Pelliter was fastening the sledge traces MacVeigh bundled Little Mystery into her thick fur coat.

  • Fifteen minutes later he gave Walker the letter in which he described to the commanding officer at Churchill certain things which he knew would hold Bucky a prisoner until he could personally appear against him.

  • Although he had been using every muscle more and more strenuously for the last fifteen minutes, new power rushed into his arms.

  • Jim paused at the hotel long enough to send a message to the station agent to have a special ready in fifteen minutes; then he went to the office of his lieutenant.

  • He isn't the same man who was there fifteen minutes ago.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carved wood; fifteen cents; fifteen dollars; fifteen grains; fifteen leagues; fifteen miles; fifteen millions; fifteen minutes; fifteen months; fifteen pounds; fifteen thousand; fifteen yards; fifteen years; fifteenth century; fresh mushrooms; just previous; left camp; look away; must here; stand till; successful attack; thought himself; under surface; used alone; well ventilated; yerba mate