Then he sat down in a chair and mopped his brow, while Morris hastened off to the cutting-room from whence he was recalled a minute later by a shout from Abe.
When he opened them a minute later his partner grinned at him reassuringly.
Below, in small print, were minutedirections where to enter, where to hitch your team, and where to go out.
The captain-general, with a minute piece of Honey Dew under his tongue, sits in Number Seven.
One daughter alone had halted, for a minute period, this progress, and this daughter was Victoria--named by her mother.
A minute before nine she rang the bell; her mother asked her why she did so.
The average amount of perspiration is about thirty ounces; and it passes off in such minute portions, and mixes so rapidly with the surrounding air, that it is not perceived.
In health, the smallest number of inspirations in a minute by an adult, is not less than fourteen, and they rarely exceed twenty-five.
This membrane hasminute nerves, and when healthy, possesses but little sensibility.
They open by minute apertures upon the edges of the lids.
This curious net-work of vessels connects with the minute veins of the body, which return the blood to the heart.
Branches of the pulmonary vein, that commence at the minute terminations of the pulmonary artery.
At the root of each hair there is a minute follicle, which secretes the fluid that oils the hair.
This trunk gives off branches, which divide and subdivide to their ultimate ramifications, constituting the great arterial tree which pervades, by its minute subdivisions, every part of the animal frame.
There are imbedded under this membrane an immense number of minute glands, and it has a great number of piles, like those upon velvet.
These minute vessels pass over the air-cells, represented by small dark points around the margin of the lungs.
The heat of the system, at least in part, is produced in the minute vessels of the several organs, by the union of oxygen with carbon and hydrogen, which the food and drink contain.
Its nerves are minute branches of the sympathetic, which accompany the branches of the arteries.
The divided surface will be seen studded with numerous small red points, which are produced by the escape of blood from the division of the minute arteries and veins.
The minute before she had asked him to forget her, but she did not remember that, nor did he.
Somebody will be next door to dead right here in a minute if you don't speak up instead of snortin' like a puffin' pig.
The minute following he was inclined to think he might have been mistaken, perhaps it was yesterday or the day before or even last week that his employer received such a letter.
For minute by minute, as she sat there thinking out this great problem just as the little Mary-'Gusta used to think out her small ones, her duty became clear and more clear to her mind.
I do hate that, of course, but I'd do it in a minute for Dad.
Mr. Chase was not sure; that is to say, he was not sure more than a minute at a time.
At any rate, I'm going up there this minute to see for myself.
She had one week before school opened and that week was to be spent with her uncles; no one else, she vowed, should have a minute of it.
Uncle Shad," she said severely, "come here a minute and sit down.
Why in the world someone doesn't run off with you and marry you this very minute I cannot see," declared the vivacious young lady.
Robinson, has done her work with minute fidelity to facts as well as affectionate devotion to the subject of her sketch, is plainly to be seen all through the book.
She claimed to be a pretty fair nurse and indeed, her very presence acted like a tonic to the patient who could not keep his sparkling eyes off her pretty face for more than a minute at a time.
But then such a thing is no uncommon occurrence when some busy folks have trouble in starting the engine and prefer to leave it running while they dash into the house for a minute or so.
Landing lights had been installed while a flashing beacon close by had already started into action, showing that an airmail crate was expected any minute or else one was due to take off.
Please tell me all you know about him," pursued Jack eagerly, just as if he was trying to clutch some minute shred of hope that was difficult to capture.
The High Mobsman who held the watch waited for half a minute and then called 'Time!
A minute or two and out he came again with a bag of salt and sprinkled the steps with it.
Of his notes I have generally retained those which he retained himself in his second edition, except when they were confuted by subsequent annotators, or were too minute to merit preservation.
Such violations of rules merely positive, become the comprehensive genius of Shakespeare, and such censures are suitable to the minute and slender criticism of Voltaire.
It is possible to pass many years without the necessity of writing panegyricks or epithalamiums; but every man has frequent occasion to state a contract, or demand a debt, or make a narrative of some minute incidents of common life.
I suppose every judicious eye will discern it to be minute and trifling, equally unfit to make a part of a great design, whatever be its colour.
The cow was covered from shoulder to flank with minute red and white spots and, plastered generously across her face, was a variegated blotch of the creamy dun color peculiar to Chihuahua stock.
The cowboy looked at him a minute and smiled sneeringly.
But the minute you git foxy or try some ranikaboo play like sayin' the deputy was after me—look out!
For a minute he sat in his saddle, silent and watchful; then, throwing his bridle-reins on the ground, he stalked defiantly through the door.
Pecos pondered upon it a minute longer, much as he had studied on Crit's proposition that it is no crime to rob a thief, and right there the cause of the revolution lost another fervent disciple.
For a minute Pecos contemplated this wreck of all his hopes—then, from the abyss of his despair there rose a voice that cried for revenge.
For a minute or two no one noticed him; and then Albert de Chantonnay, remembering his role, came forward to greet the Englishman.
And the boat rode for a brief minute head to wind before she turned southward.
She stood with her back toward them for a minute or two looking at some flowers on a side table.
There was a pause until the schooner felt her moorings, then Captain Clubbe looked over the side and nodded a curt salutation to River Andrew, bidding him, by the same gesture, wait a minute until he had donned his shore-going jacket.
A minute later the bell swung slowly, and gave a single clang which echoed beneath the vaulted roof, and in the hollow of the empty towers on either side.
It smelt abominably of an untrimmed wick, Juliette thought, and the next minute she was kissing her father, who lay full length on a locker in the little cabin.
A minute later Septimus Marvin was shaking him by the hand with a vague and uncertain but kindly grasp.
He understood it a minute later, however, when the brown sail ran up the mast and, holding the tiller between his knees, Barebone hauled in the sheet hand over hand and steered a course out to sea.
A minute or two later the old dog, who lived mysteriously in the back premises, barked, and presently the servant announced that a gentleman was desirous of speaking to the rector.
For a minute or so I stood discussing with Manderson--it was by one of those tours de force of which one's mind is capable under great excitement--certain points about the route of the long drive before me.
He said, as near as I can remember: 'If Harris is there, every minute is of importance.
He had a minute acquaintance with the ways of the Manderson household.
At this instant was heard another burst, like the discharge of the broadside of a ship of war; and, at about a minute or two's distance each, no less than nineteen more such.
Being now alone, I thought it prudent to examine the castle with the mostminute circumspection.
Besides many legends, it contains a minute description of sacrifices performed on the Sarasvati and Drishadvati.
Much, of course, still remains to be done by future generations of scholars, especially in detailed and minute investigation.
It is somewhat curious that while there are many and minute stage directions about dress and decorations no less than about the actions of the players, nothing is said in this way as to change of scene.
They contain a number of minute observations, such as have only been made over again by the phoneticians of the present day in Europe.
Doubtless her thoughts flew from this flowery fête to the wood yonder, where at this minute the men whom she had incited waited under the trees, gun in hand.
A minute later the vanquished outlaw was pushed into the office of Dubois, who was still at dinner.
Slowly, and in sugar-coated pills of homeopathic size, he administered to them minute doses of the ideas he wished them to digest.
Afterwards, minute by minute, she raised herself up, and came to self-command and composure.
The parting was so sudden that it took Vincent a minute to stop short, under way and walking quickly as he was.
Not if you stop a minute on the way and congratulate me, Cousin, for she says 'yes' at last!
I only put her down for a minute when she howled, and she made for a puddle, like a duck.
Let me keep you for one blessed minute and feel that I have really found my Psyche.
Rose opened her lips impulsively, but closed them without speaking and sat a minute looking straight between Rosa's ears, as if forcing herself to think twice before she spoke.
Do forget your tiresome surgery for a minute and be the kindest cousin that ever was," answered Rose, beginning rather sharply and ending with her most engaging smile.
I wish we were all children again, with no hearts to perplex us and no great temptations to try us," she said to herself as she rested a minute in a quiet nook while her partner went to get a glass of water.
For a minute it was doubtful whether Charlie would answer this flash with another, and a general explosion ensue, or wisely quench the flame with the mild answer which turneth away wrath.
Phebe wrote about Mac; Rose answered with minute particulars about Archie; and both added hasty items concerning their own affairs, as if these were of little consequence.
Can you spare a minute from your pretty work to take a stitch in my old glove?
But she did not open it till she had stood a minute staring hard at the old glove on Psyche's head; then like one who had suddenly gotten a bright idea, she gave a decided nod and walked slowly out of the room.
I ought not to have kept him a minute longer than I could help, for it wasn't all pity; it was my foolish wish to show off and do as I liked for a minute, to pay for being good about the gown.
But for the minute everything was quiet, and I began to fear that I should have to return empty-handed; for it would be growing light in another hour or so, and I must be gone before the day began to appear.
It was a struggle for a minute to keep his balance; and whether in the involuntary stress of the effort, or by an instinctive impulse, conscious or otherwise, he clasped her close for a moment, till her face touched his own.
He flung a rope to Windham, who in another minute had let Miss Maine slip down by it to the ladder; then, throwing a noose of it over the chimney, he slid down himself to the eaves, and so to the ground.
In the effort to right it, he made a thrust downward with one of the oars, but found no bottom; and the next minute Agnes saw him clinging to the side of a steep rock, with only his head and shoulders out of water.
Yes, but you weren't there a minute ago," I observed, reaching the hall and walking across to her.
The two small pustules on the wrists arose also from the application of the virus to some minute abrasions of the cuticle, but the livid tint, if they ever had any, was not conspicuous at the time I saw the patient.
A minute later, he let out a terrific roar that shook the rafters of the verandah above him and was addressed to the native who had recently arrived with the sheep and cows.
As a matter of fact it was only a minute or two since she had last spoken that the girl spoke again, continuing her narrative.
Only three and a half years old, and one minute playing round the waggon in the sight of her pa and ma, and the next minute.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minute" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
