After twenty minutes of desperate fighting, Lieutenant Barff arrived with thirty more men.
Captain Tomkins of the 38th Dogras was shot through the heart, and a few minutes later the adjutant of the regiment, Lieutenant Bailey, was also killed.
It took him but a few minutes to write the brief message which he addressed and turned to the first messenger, "Quartermaster General.
He was morally certain that Thorne was a Federal Secret Service Agent and that the despatch was a forgery, yet it would take but a few minutes to send it over to the Secretary's office and convict him out of his own mouth.
It happens that you can," said Mrs. Varney; "if you can stay here a few minutes while I go upstairs to Howard it will be a great help to me.
If tart paste is used take it from the oven five minutesbefore it is done and ice it; return it to the oven, and send to the table cold.
It will take 5 minutes more to fry them than to broil them.
Cover closely for 10 minutes to cook, and then for 5 minutesmore with cover off.
After boiling about 10 minutesstrain through a flannel bag; put on ice, but do not let it get very cold.
Brush cutlets lightly with oil, Grill over hot coals 3 to 4 minutesper side, rotating to form crosshatch marks characteristic of paillards, or broil 3 to 4 minutes per side or until cooked through.
Grill or broil drumsticks turning and basting frequently with sauce for 15 minutes or until cooked through.
Continue grilling for another 15 to 20 minutes or until hens are well browned and cooked through.
Bake for 15 minutes (or 25 minutes if ingredients were refrigerated).
Preheat the oven and add 15 minutes to cooking time.
Add chicken and saute for 3 to 4 minutes per side or until cooked through.
Broil on a rack 4-inches from heat 5 to 6 minutes on each side until thoroughly cooked and springs back to the touch.
Add onions and peppers and cook for 10 minutes stirring often.
Microwave an additional 3 minutes or until apples are tender.
Our young friend Lovel, who had received a corresponding invitation, punctual to the hour of appointment, arrived at Monkbarns about five minutes before four o'clock on the 17th of July.
Our senior leaned his little bundle upon one of the posts at the head of the staircase, and, facing the traveller who had first arrived, waited in silence for about five minutes the arrival of the expected diligence.
I could do to get round it twenty minutes since--it was coming in three feet abreast.
A very few minutes brought him up with Lovel, who, perhaps anticipating his intention, had not put his horse beyond a slow walk, when the clatter of hoofs behind him announced Captain Mlntyre.
I give the intelligent reader ten minutes to pause and moralize after digestion.
A few minutes of fussy preparations and the gloomy twain were immersed in dry business.
Everything else was forgotten, for the ten minutes it took to revive Mr. Rayne.
The minutes are counted, and you are served in turn as you come to the buffet, you believe.
A few minuteslater a sharp-eyed lad ran into the Monte Rosa hotel to Seiler,[49] saying that he had seen an avalanche fall from the summit of the Matterhorn on to the Matterhorngletscher.
A few minutes afterward I tied myself to young Peter, ran down after the others, and caught them just as they were commencing the descent of the difficult part.
They come down in sudden whirlwinds, with the violence of a waterspout, and in a few minutes whole villages are buried.
The few provisions deemed necessary being placed in Simond's knapsack, at twenty minutes past two o'clock we scrambled down the rocks, leaving Huxley behind us.
We followed the route which had been taken on the previous day, and in a few minutes turned the rib which had intercepted the view of the eastern face from our tent platform.
Somebody told, I reckon; for in about eight or ten minutes them two pals come tearing forrard as tight as they could jump and darted ashore and was gone.
When I had gone fifteen minutes I says to myself, there's more'n a mile behind me, and everything quiet.
Another five minutes and I says there's considerable more land behind me now, and there's a man back there that's begun to wonder what's the trouble.
Well, he hadn't been gone more'n ten minutes before his pals found it out, and they jumped ashore and lit out after him.
In two minutes we was tearing up the river road in the dark towards the village.
Pretty soon I says to myself, fortyminutes gone--he KNOWS there's something up!
You must forgive me, for I have not had for the last two weeks tenminutes of freedom.
To be sure the idea of summoning you to Rouen for twenty minutes did occur to me.
Three minutes later, to their infinite surprise, the bridge thudded down to span the ditch, and I walked out upon it with Bianca at my side.
Presently Confalonieri came out to take a hand, leaving Galeotto on guard within, and in a few minutes we had made an end of that resistance--the last splutter of resistance within those walls.
And then, some ten minutes later, I caught a flutter of garments half a mile or so ahead of me, amid the elms.
At the end of a half-hour I espied below me the twinkling lights of a village on the hill-side, and a few minutes later I was among the houses of Casi.
I went, and hunted where she had bidden me and elsewhere, and spent a good ten minutes vainly in the task.
Ten minutes later we were riding north again, and all that night we rode, along the endless Aemilian Way, pausing for no more than a draught of wine from time to time, and munching a loaf as we rode.
Water was supplied them, and tables ready spread, by the Volunteer Corps always in attendance, within five minutes after the firing of the gun that announced their arrival.
When she had finished, many minutes passed before either spoke a word.
After a few minutes I began to tire; the strain of the last few days and my late effort in reaching the whaler had begun to tell on me.
After a few minutes of rapid spin down the sloping road from the bridge, we began to chat again gaily.
And so for many minutes we went slowly on our way along the deserted sand, and in hearing of the music of the sounding sea and the echoing shore.
In a few minutes more, at most, the water will be over my mouth.
Then the white cloud sank lower and floated away over the grass; and for a few minutesonly a dark thin vapour hung over the spot.
If all were ready--and I knew that the gang were too expert to have any failing in that respect--a few minutes would suffice to place the whole of the treasure in a waiting boat.
In a few minutes she returned carrying carefully a wicker basket.
In some fifteen or twenty minutes we had unmasked a hole sufficiently large to pass through comfortably.
Only a few minutes had elapsed in all; and when I looked around under the altered conditions, things seemed to be almost where they had been.
Then rushed over me the conviction that the mere lapse of time passed in these few minutes of agonised silence was betraying our secret.
In the meantime I was content to linger a fewminutes in the great cavern.
We had not walked above a mile when the eager eye of the foremost detected a cloud of dust upon the road at some distance; and, after a few minutes more, four posters were seen coming along at a tremendous rate.
Musing over this boyish adventure, I fell into a deep slumber, and on awakening it took me some minutes before I could recall my senses sufficiently to know where I was.
He opened it gently and noiselessly, merely sufficient to take a survey of the apartment, in which, from the glare of the lights, and the busy hum of voices, he was so bewildered that it was some minutes before he recognized his mistress.
They jogged on for a few minutes in silence, till they came to that part of the "Duke's" demesne wall, where the first sentry was stationed.
So saying, I drew my aunt's arm within my own, and telling her that I wished a few minutes conversation alone, led her to one of the less frequented walks in the Tuilleries gardens.
I knew that a few minutes would probably bring them into the drawing-room, and I felt flurried and heated as the time drew near.
Punctual to my appointment with O'Flaherty, I found myself a very few minutes after six o'clock at Mrs. Clanfrizzle's door.
So engrossed was I by my misfortunes, that for some minutes I did not perceive, that as he continued to read the passport, he smiled from time to time, till at length a hearty fit of laughing awoke me from my abstraction.
And with these words his lordship shook me heartily by the hand; and before two minutes had elapsed, had wrapped his box-coat once more across him, and was round the corner.
Idly he dropped a pebble between the walls; and it seemed minuteswhile he waited until the water sped its thanks.
There are a few places still left where men can handle big things with a light touch, and take more for granted in five minutes than an Englishman at home could puzzle out in a year.
I had not quitted the Quebec steamer three minutes when I was asked point-blank: 'What do you think of the question of Asiatic Exclusion which is Agitating our Community?
For fifteen glorious minutes he gave me condensed essence of mixed farming, with excursions into sugar-beet (did you know they are making sugar in Alberta?
After fifteen or twenty minutes of this enforced proximity, the female is invaded by one or more of the larvæ which at first were on the male.
The first Bee to appear, an Osmia, is dropped alive into a glass jar containing a few of these larvæ; and after a lapse of some fifteen minutes I inspect them through the pocket-lens.
Now less than a minute elapses between the arrival of one egg and that of the next; and the number of these eggs cannot therefore be lower than the number of minutes contained in thirty-six hours, or 2160.
A few minutes or a few seconds are nearly always long enough for the return to activity.
It is all over: in a fewminutes the wounded one succumbs.
There were other callers, and in a fewminutes the conversation, which had been general, dropped into little side channels.
IN the quiet of Harry's own room, his uncle having spent fifteen minutes in silent and apparently puzzled thought, suddenly asked a question: "When did Louis go into town?
A fewminutes of total silence followed; then a new type of character came to the front.
She had been annoyed some minutes before by the behavior of a stout woman in a rich costume of black silk, who had stopped for a moment to inspect her drawing.
If you can possibly wait five minutes I should like to put on my hat and change my boots.
He left them in a road somewhere in West Kensington, and came back after about fifteen minuteswith a little girl.
Susanna's usual call and petition for a few minutes talk was no longer to be feared, for Susanna was now only a memory.
Some minutes later the servant entered and said that Mr. Lind was below.
A shifting, rustling sound, as of somebody dressing, which had been audible for some minutes through the folding doors, now ceased, and a handsome young woman entered.
If you want to see her, she is within five minutes walk of you.
A few minutes later Marmaduke entered, looking round as if in search of someone.
You might as well come; it's only a matter of a few minutes if we drive.
Some minutes later, Marian, discussing Conolly's letter with Elinor, was interrupted by a servant, who informed her that her father desired to see her in his study.
A few minutes later she went to bed, leaving the couple alone together.
If you are not thoroughly satisfied, pray go on for ten minutes longer: your feelings do you credit, as the phrase goes.
Do you know that it now wants twenty minutes of four?
I understood at once why the Viscount had selected this day, for there was no one to be seen inside, and it was fiveminutes ere I discovered him.
A few minutes more and both commissions might slip through his fingers.
He gave the couple ten minutes to marry in or quit.
Come in, then, I can give you fiveminutes if you really don't mind talking before a stranger.
It can only cost me a few minutes of life--I can spare the time," he answered, almost peevishly.
I see a panic terror close upon me with every hurrying year at the knowledge that my hours were thirty minutes and my months virtually fortnights, and that I was leading the fastest life on record.
When five minutes had passed, a legate from Eliphaz announced that his side had scraped together twenty pounds, and that this was their final bid.
He's there and only gives her ten minutes to live.
In less than tenminutes a hansom discharged him at my feet.
Where each of the partners lives his own life in his own way, with his own circle of friends and external amusements, days may go by without the men having five minutes together.
The story of that brief ten minutes is packed with self-control and selflessness; trained muscles and minds and souls responded to the emergency with an automatic efficiency well-nigh unbelievable.
In less than ten minutesafter this, every student was out of the building.
Nancy discovered him a few minutes later, lying full length in the sweet-scented clover, an open book before him.
Five minutesmore they'll give me--' His active brain here received a check.
And in another few minutes he had bound the boy securely to the tree, tying his hands together with his handkerchief; then, as Nancy stepped forward, indignant at this severe treatment, he turned upon her.
The boy hung his head in shame; he folded his arms and sat immovable till the five minutes were over, then he said timidly, 'I wouldn't hate a brother.
Now think it over for five minutesin silence, and then tell me what your thoughts are about it.
A view lens, or one that is perfectly flat, occupies nearly two minutes to complete the likeness, and the consequence is, the sitter moves slightly, and the required softness is obtained in an accidental manner.
Sometimes I work with a pupil for several minutes over a single tone, until he really comprehends what he has to do to produce the right quality of tone, and can remember how he did it.
When such an exercise can be prolonged for twenty minutes at a time, octave passages in pieces have no terrors for the pianist.
We began, but in five minutes I found myself playing with full force and vigor.
Ten minutes later they were under way, and standing about the deck, discussed the situation in thrilling whispers as opportunity offered.
The visitor was only busy two minutes on the door-mat, but in that time Mrs. Cox was able in low whispers to apprise her of the state of affairs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minutes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
