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Sentences starting with minute

Minute after minute passed; then came the sharp command to advance. [11]
Minute after minute passed, on and on I flew; on, and still on; and at last with a great cheer I flung my Banner to the breeze and burst out in front of Talbot! [5]
Minute after minute passed, hours passed, and the fight of the soul to maintain itself against the disordered mind went on. [11]

Sentences ending with minute

She seemed five years older in the minute. [11]
Gimme the bucket--I won't be gone only a a minute. [5]
If I were within sight of Jolicoeur's saloon, I should be drinking hard this minute. [11]
Now, be off with you this minute. [10]
But the plate was so long in coming my way that the fever-heat of beneficence was going down lower and lower--going down at the rate of a hundred dollars a minute. [5]
There's my hand upon it; I am your friend from this minute. [12]
A fortune, scraped up in forty years in Ingy, ain't to be thrown away in a minute. [4]
When I woke up I didn't know where I was for a minute. [5]
Result: it is twenty-four words per minute. [5]
It may be true, but I wouldn't put faith in it--not for one icy minute. [11]

Short sentences using minute

A full minute passed. [9]
Wait a minute, Mr. Pindar. [9]
Lemme think a minute. [5]
Don't lose a minute. [5]
So passed a long minute. [10]
Every minute had its crisis. [11]
In a minute I would. [5]
I expect her any minute. [4]
Do not lose a minute. [7]
You wait here a minute. [5]

Sentences containing minute two or more times

There were ten, twenty, sometimes even thirty of them on their feet at a time, storming at the prisoner minute after minute, but Joan was not disturbed. [5]
The pain of this suspense grew so, that I longed for some sound to break the stillness; but there was nothing for minute after minute. [11]
A minute later the engine was quietly churning away below; two minutes later the ropes were drawn in; half a minute later still the nose of the Amenhotep moved in the water. [11]
Grateful, yes, but still uneasy; and soon I began to feel more and more uneasy every minute, for every minute that went by that odor thickened up the more, and got to be more and more gamey and hard to stand. [5]
At last he sat down on a boulder between the house and the shore, and scarcely moved, as minute after minute passed, and then an hour and more, and no one came. [11]
Darkness shut him out from my view in less than a minute, and within the next minute I lost the road and got to wandering in the sage brush. [5]
Thus minute after minute passed until the first and then the second quarter of an hour ended. [10]
But now again minute after minute passed, a quarter of an hour grew to half an hour, and still Orion was waiting in vain. [10]
For a minute it was pretty; and then I give a little soft call, and in a minute there was the broncho bucking--doubling like a hoop, and dropping same as lead. [11]
Far in the distance were a sleigh and horses like a spot in the snow, growing larger from minute to minute. [11]

More example sentences with the word minute in them

If it fails, young master, you will not live a whole minute after, I promise you that. [5]
A minute and you'll have a back-hander that'll put you to sleep, Maitre Dormy. [11]
Suppose one of you wants to borrow the legs a minute from the one that's got them, could he let him? [5]
I will post you the minute my scheme fails or succeeds. [5]
As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
I think of you most as you were that minute, Cousin Fanny, when I come in. [11]
Stop a minute, you men; it is worth while, Sir, to tarry a moment. [10]
Why, I knew you for a born son of luck the minute I saw you. [5]
Mr. Isaac D. Worthington stood erect beside the table, his hand thrust into the opening of his coat, and spoke at the rate of one hundred and eight words a minute, for exactly one hour. [9]
Pentaur ceased speaking with a deep sigh, and for a minute not a scholar moved. [10]
The famous Ruysch, who died a hundred and thirty years ago, showed that each of the viscera has its terminal vessels arranged in its own peculiar way; the same fact which you may see illustrated in Gerber's figures after the minute injections of Berres. [3]
He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides. [5]
It is all well while it burns and scintillates in your emotional centres, without articulate and connected expression; but the minute you plunge it into the rhyme-trough it cools down, and becomes as dead and dull as the cold horse-shoe. [6]
But the minute we started to skip out the professor says, "No, you don't! [5]
He put his watch on the table, and sit down on a bench by it, and for a little minute he do not speak, but look at me close, and not angry, as you would think. [11]
Impatient as I was to be gone, I sat me down in the coffee room, thinking every minute the man must return, and strongly apprehensive that Captain Daniel must be in some grave predicament. [9]
His whole appearance was so grotesque, I felt for a minute as if there was a showman behind him who would pull him down presently and put up Judy, or the hangman, or the Devil, or some other wooden personage of the famous spectacle. [6]
The next minute was one of suspense, for we saw the boat shoot beneath the archway. [11]
The minute she was lightened the comet swung along by me the same as if I was anchored. [5]
Every minute it was getting earlier now, and pretty soon some of them watchers would begin to stir, and I might get catched--catched with six thousand dollars in my hands that nobody hadn't hired me to take care of. [5]
The minute I was far enough above the town to see I could make the towhead, I begun to look sharp for a boat to borrow, and the first time the lightning showed me one that wasn't chained I snatched it and shoved. [5]
Pretty soon he was all tired out, and dropped down with his back against the door, and said he would rest a minute and then kill me. [5]
You may be wanted to save a life any minute now. [11]
If you had waited one minute longer at the barracks you could have done so. [11]
The old man waited for a minute in a painful silence, then he turned slowly round, and, with tight-pressed lips, looked at the woman in the rocking-chair. [11]
The power of vast yet minute organisation, always called out her respect and admiration. [14]
Lost in the variety, the multiplicity of minute details, the refinements of analysis and introspection, he would miss any leading indications. [4]
I'll just walk up and down a minute, and see if I can call it back from recollection's vaults. [5]
Every minute the University boat was getting nearer the other. [6]
That is the trouble with Mrs. Eddy when she sets out to explain an over-large exhibit: the minute you think the light is bursting upon you the candle goes out and your mind begins to wander. [5]
It was almost too much for the poor geranium on which it fell, and it looked at one minute as if the roots would be laid bare, and perhaps the whole plant be washed out of the soil in which it was planted. [6]
It seems incredible to those who knew Mark Twain in his later years--dreamy, unpractical, and indifferent to details--that he could have acquired so vast a store of minute facts as were required by that task. [5]
The blood mounted to the steward's head and heated his eyes and for fully a minute he strove in vain to find words to give utterance to his rage. [10]
At eleven o'clock to the minute Ian Stafford entered Byng's mansion and was being taken to Jasmine's sitting-room, when Rudyard appeared on the staircase, and with a peremptory gesture waved the servant away. [11]
Up he shins to the foretop, with his spectacles on, and in a minute down he comes again, looking insulted. [5]
He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. [2]
They are put to school; they are put at work; they are prescribed minute and severe rules of conduct, and in the latter training is included military drill. [4]
I don't have to reflect a moment; the right name comes out instantly, just as if it were an inspiration, as no doubt it is, for I am sure it wasn't in me half a minute before. [5]
Pierre had gone to Petersburg on business of his own for three weeks as he said, but had remained there nearly seven weeks and was expected back every minute. [2]
He has got to paint them so you can tell them apart the minute you look at them, hain't he? [5]
I rode up to my Lord March, and finding there was a minute yet to run I went up the Row a distance and back again amidst more huzzaing, Pollux prancing and quivering, and frothing his bit, but never once attempting to break. [9]
But it's pleasant to have the taste of it in my mouth for a minute. [11]
I was going to give him a scolding, but Sandy came flying in at that moment, wild with terror, and so choked with sobs that for a minute she could not get her voice. [5]
I'll be able to drive in a minute. [9]
Roscoe was about to begin, when Mrs. Falchion said, "Wait a minute. [11]
He paced excitedly to and fro for a minute, and then broke out: "Thou hast said it! [11]
The (at that time) Scientist whom I mentioned a minute ago, and who had not been present at the convention, saw it and marvelled; marvelled and was indignant--indignant with the printer or the telegrapher, for making so careless and so dreadful an error. [5]
Count Ilya, again thrusting his way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver which he presented to Prince Bagration. [2]
All objects seen through it had a bright, strong vividness, not only of outline, but of every minute detail, which they would not have had when seen simply through the same depth of atmosphere. [5]
You can write three times as many words in a minute with it as you can write with our alphabet. [5]
One minute I thought it was fear, and another I thought it was daze; and maybe it was both. [11]
And after we'd thought a minute, I says: "Say it, Jim. [5]
I can't bear this waiting and I shall cry in a minute! [2]
It was to this room that Fellowes had begged Jasmine to come this morning, in the letter which Krool had so carefully placed for his master to find, after having read it himself with minute scrutiny. [11]
The members of this lowly organised order are wingless, dull-coloured, minute insects, with ugly, almost misshapen heads and bodies. [1]
When they said they would like to see Mrs. Grosvenor Green's apartment, he owned his inability to cope with the affair, and said he must send for the superintendent; he was either in the Herodotus or the Thucydides, and would be there in a minute. [8]
For one minute they would be alone, they two, with the world afar, they two, to meet, to greet--and to part. [11]
Without a doubt they were under that shed a quarter of a minute after they had left us, and they must have overheard and enjoyed all our confessions and lamentations. [5]
A minute later they were ready: "Snowdon House," Hylda said; and they passed into the night. [11]
The next minute they were only a sailing puff of dust on the far desert. [5]
For a minute they stood clasped in each other's arms; then Rufinus freed himself, and set out to seek the abbess. [10]
For a minute they stood at gaze. [11]
In some places they overhung their base so as to look like leaning towers which might topple over at any minute. [6]
A minute later they let the count in. [2]
In another minute they had drawn up before the open door. [9]
He conjectured that these were remains of the victims of the catastrophe of 1820, and a minute inquest, immediately instituted by the local authorities, soon demonstrated the correctness of his supposition. [5]
A thousand of these sheets have been made, all exactly like this, in every minute detail--they can't be told apart. [5]
She wrote on these bits of paper in a minute hand, holding each against a piece of board, such as is used in binding books, for a desk. [14]
From that minute there was trouble. [11]
At that minute there was the crunch of gravel on the pathway and the sound of a quick footstep. [11]
They get out there the minute it's hot enough. [5]
I shoved in there for a minute, but it was too various for me; I couldn't stand it. [5]
I went over there and leaned my knuckle: on the table a minute and looked the governor in the face, and says I, 'Mr. [5]
She gazed at them for a minute, then descended to them. [11]
And Cynthia kept them every one, and read them over on such occasions when she felt that she could not live another minute out of sight of her mountain. [9]
They came to their knees on the ground, where they clutched and strained for a wild minute, Valmond desperately fighting to keep the huge bony fingers from his neck. [11]
And the minute the words were out of his mouth somebody over in the crowd struck up the doxolojer, and everybody joined in with all their might, and it just warmed you up and made you feel as good as church letting out. [5]
In another minute the will was in Tom's hands. [5]
It spread over the width of East Street, growing larger every minute, until presently she was hemmed in. [9]
Zminis is on the way hither to take you both prisoners; he will be here in a minute! [10]
A minute afterwards the two constables held back the crowd from the doorway of the root-house, from the threshold of which a few wooden steps descended to the ground inside. [11]
And down in the small of his back Eliphalet listened for the crack of a pistol, and feared that a clean hole might be bored there any minute. [9]
I would find the road occasionally and then lose it again in a minute or so. [5]
In these shops the precious old dears could buy everything they wanted in the most minute quantities. [6]
Tom stirred up the other pirates and they all clattered away with a shout, and in a minute or two were stripped and chasing after and tumbling over each other in the shallow limpid water of the white sandbar. [5]
A minute later the old man's large stout figure in full-dress uniform, his chest covered with orders and a scarf drawn round his stomach, waddled out into the porch. [2]
Will you mind the office one minute, while I run up-stairs? [12]
It will take the ninety foot dwelling a minute to pass under. [5]
We laid for the new-comers, and pretty soon I'd got them to hold all my things a minute, and then I was a free man again and most outrageously happy. [5]
The officers of the Natchez claimed 7 hours and 1 minute stoppage on account of fog and repairing machinery. [5]
He stared at the monogram on the paper, which seemed so emblematic of her; for he had often reflected that her things--even such minute insignia as this--belonged to her. [9]
Breakfast was on the minute, an hour in his study to attend to affairs about the place, so many hours in his office at the mills, in the president's room at the bank, vestry and charity meetings at regular intervals. [9]
They'll bounce you the minute you get a little old and worked out; they'll do it sure. [5]
The guardians were the Minute Men, organized to maintain the honor and dignity of the state of Missouri. [9]
A minute later the marshal's adjutant, de Castres, came in and conducted Balashev to the quarters assigned him. [2]
I stayed until the last minute for a word with her,--which I never got, by the way,--and paid near a guinea a mile for a chaise to Portsmouth as a consequence. [9]
At the finish the judge was silent a minute, turning over in his mind the shameful picture of Tom's flight over the footlights; then he said, as if musing aloud, "H'm--I don't understand it. [5]
The boundaries of the interests of these workers were limited, but their souls were commingled with other souls bound to them by the formalities; and every minute of their days, every atom of their forces, were moving round one light, the light upon the hearthstone. [11]
Judd Jason got the heaviest shot, but they said he couldn't exist a minute if it wasn't for the 'respectable' crowd--capitalists, financiers, millionaires and their legal tools. [9]
It knocks at the gate of every organ seventy or eighty times in a minute, calling upon it to receive its supplies and unload its refuse. [6]

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