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Sentences starting with minutes

Minutes passed as they studied, felt, and admired the skin, the hunter proud of his son, the son alive with a primitive passion, which inflicts suffering to get the beautiful thing. [11]
Minutes passed in silence. [11]
Minutes passed before she remembered for what purpose she had entered the room and began to pass the dusting-cloth over the writing-table, the piles of papers, and the rest of the contents of the apartment. [10]

Sentences ending with minutes

When, a few years ago, my mother was ill in Holland, a reply to a telegram marked "urgent" was received in Leipsic in eighteen minutes. [10]
I said it would go right to my head, and confuse me so that I would be in a helpless tangle in ten minutes. [5]
Nobody said a word for several minutes. [5]
He was back with the shoes in 3 minutes! [5]
He waltzed in with a spanner in one hand and a trumpet in the other, and sent fourteen men home on a shutter in less than three minutes. [5]
H. Lucas, Andy Wineland, Master, made the same run in 60 hours and 57 minutes. [5]
He might have waited five short minutes. [9]
We had to wait twenty or thirty minutes. [5]
If I could use the phonographic character with facility I could do the 1,500 in twenty minutes. [5]
He went close up to Paula, told her in a low voice that Hiram was safe, and implored her, as she hoped to be forgiven for her own sins, to grant him a few minutes. [10]

Short sentences using minutes

For minutes they struggled. [11]
All this occupied several minutes. [10]
It lasted ten minutes. [5]
Starts in fifteen minutes. [4]
One, two, three minutes passed. [11]
Twenty minutes for luncheon. [5]
Time, eight minutes, forty-six seconds. [5]
Time, eight minutes, forty-one seconds. [5]
Time, eight minutes, forty-eight seconds. [5]
I won't be five minutes. [11]

Sentences containing minutes two or more times

Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together. [5]
The laws is that the battle must continue fifteen minutes if the men can hold out; and as the pauses do not count, this duel was protracted to twenty or thirty minutes, I judged. [5]
And then I said, I don't wish to be hard on this fellow, and I will just give him ten minutes to commence; ten minutes --and then if he don't, down goes his building. [5]
Now you may ring for ice-water; and ten minutes later for a lemonade; and ten minutes afterward, for a cigar; and by and by for a newspaper--and what is the result? [5]
But she was ready--gazing straight before her, measuring, weighing, calculating--by shades, minutes, fractions of minutes, seconds--with all her great soul present, in eye, and set of head, and noble pose of body--but patient, steady, master of herself--master of herself and of the situation. [5]
Time was his only friend in this--one minute, two minutes, three minutes, anything. [11]
Within the memory of men not yet come to middle life the time of the trotting horse has been reduced from two minutes forty seconds to two minutes eight and a quarter seconds. [4]
To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes. [5]
Four minutes, three minutes, two minutes . [9]
Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes passed, and yet no Fridolin appeared. [5]

More example sentences with the word minutes in them

Can I tell you?--I almost had five minutes of envy that evening. [4]
Why did not you think of a railway-station, where the cars stop five minutes for refreshments? [6]
If you stir--if you so much as wink--for four whole minutes, I'll bite you! [5]
Five minutes after you left me they all started for your house, and Lula Chandos said it was the quickest cure of a headache she had ever seen. [9]
I exist--to see you for ten minutes a day. [9]
The persons struck would respond, and inside of five minutes every man would be locked in a death-grip with his neighbour. [5]
Then her tears would burst out afresh, she would utter imploring supplications to the gods for mercy, and a few minutes later, begin conjuring her mother to take her to the hanging-gardens, that they might hear Nitetis' defence of her own conduct. [10]
Some long minutes wore away; at last he thought he perceived that Hermas had raised himself. [10]
I was dressed within the ten minutes, and came out. [5]
Our houses are within a stone's throw, and yet in a whole day, from noon till noon, so old a friend could not find a few minutes to deliver the letters entrusted to him, or to call upon such near neighbors . [10]
I kept quiet, with my ears cocked, about fifteen minutes, I reckon. [5]
I timed him with a stop watch, and he made 1,244 revolutions in 24 minutes and 46 seconds. [5]
Ten minutes later, with a receipted bill in his pocket, Tom McMahon made for the barber's shop which Mazarine had entered. [11]
One of you will die to-morrow week; another of you will die to-night; the third has but five minutes to live--and yonder is the clock! [5]
One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. [5]
Last Friday, Fred Whitmore (it was the 28th day of his apprenticeship on the machine) stacked up 49,700 ems of solid nonpareil in 8 hours, and the type-breaking delay was only 6 minutes for the day. [5]
It was impatience which made the minutes become quarters of an hour. [10]
At such times, when one's consciousness of outer things is dormant, an earthquake might continue for some minutes without one realizing it. [9]
I've told you what I want, and now that I've got to go in a few minutes, I'll come to the point. [9]
Five minutes later Wetherell saw the Speaker descending again, the usually impressive quality of his face slightly modified by the twitching of a smile. [9]
The whole mob were suffering for exercise, and it was not fifteen minutes till they were all on foot and I had the lead again. [5]
Sorrow and anxiety were suddenly forgotten, thought and calculation were far from her; for some minutes she felt nothing but that she, too, was laughing heartily, irrepressibly, like the young healthful human creature that she was. [10]
Ten minutes afterwards we stood beside the flag-staff, and at our feet lay a moaning, mangled figure. [11]
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
We discussed everything we knew, during the first fifteen or twenty minutes, that morning, and then branched out into the glad, free, boundless realm of the things we were not certain about. [5]
As it fell, we could be alone together for a few minutes only, and had no chance of speaking to each other privily. [10]
Within three minutes we caught sight of the party ahead of us, and stopped to observe them. [5]
I found the water some three hundred yards away, and had been resting about twenty minutes, when I heard voices. [5]
The deaconess Katharine was the name by which she was known, and in a few minutes she returned to her patient's bedside. [10]
A small panel was soon found, he had plenty of brushes and colors to choose from, and in a few minutes, a burning heart, transfixed by an arrow, was completed. [10]
Fosters Opera House was some six squares distant, and by a liberal estimate Mr. Duncan and his advance guard ought to get back within twenty minutes of the time he left. [9]
The widow Tynan was practical, and she saw none of those things which made her daughter stand for minutes at a time and look into the distance over the prairie towards the sunset light or the grey- blue foothills. [11]
Once, when I was in Burgos, I saw a queer, longish shadow coming round a street corner, and two minutes after, first a nose and then old Enrique appeared. [10]
The fourth duel was a tremendous encounter; but at the end of five or six minutes the surgeon interfered once more: another man so severely hurt as to render it unsafe to add to his harms. [5]
I began to walk, slowly at first, then more and more rapidly until I had gained a breathless pace; in ten minutes I was in West Street, standing in front of the Templar's Hall where the meeting of the Citizens Union west in progress. [9]
Hodder resumed his walk more slowly, and in a few minutes reached his rooms in the parish house. [9]
Where the stage waits never each two minutes there is no occasion for music. [5]
A new and violent emotion was stirring her young soul; not many minutes since she had squatted peacefully on the ground by the side of the wounded man, with her head resting on her hand, and thinking of her goats on the mountain. [10]
We reached the village, the French gentlemen leaped down from their stools in the cart, and in ten minutes the streets were filled with frenzied, hooded figures. [9]
I was getting very much pressed for time, and I allowed ten minutes only for my visit. [6]
He had not very many minutes to wait. [5]
Instead of the usual formal audience of 15 minutes, we staid 4 hours and were made a good deal more at home than we could have been in a New York drawing-room. [5]
My time is up, and if you'll keep quiet for two minutes I'll tell you something about Miss Herts, the woman who conceived this splendid idea. [5]
We'll fix it up in a few minutes. [9]
Some one spoke up and said it was five minutes past noon. [9]
The English sent up a glad shout and came surging down in strong force to take her, and then for a few minutes the might of both adversaries was concentrated upon that spot. [5]
His intellect was unimpaired, and his memory tenacious, up to within a few minutes of his decease. [5]
But Grant!--he was under a tremendous and ceaseless bombardment of praise and gratulation, but as true as I'm sitting here he never moved a muscle of his body for a single instant, during 30 minutes! [5]
Five minutes after two shots were fired in quick succession, and there was a rush to the parlor from which the reports came. [5]
This lasted about two minutes, which to Pierre seemed an hour. [2]
It wanted but two minutes to twelve when Hume came from his house, dressed also in the white blanket costume, and followed by his dog, Bouche. [11]
He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to? [5]
Why, it warn't two minutes till they begged like dogs-- and how the other lot did yell and laugh and clap their hands all the way through, and shout 'Sail in, Corpse-Maker! [5]
She reads in two hours and 20 minutes and will play not longer than 2 3/4 hours. [5]
It is now twenty-five minutes past eight by the true time, as my watch has it. [6]
You'll pass about twenty-five in the next fifteen minutes, and you'll recognize ours when you see it--and if you don't, you can yell down and ask. [5]
I suppose about twenty minutes had gone when, as we were entering the garden again, we heard loud cries. [11]
We arrived in twenty minutes from the Emperor's. [5]
We had barely twenty minutes for our observations, when it was time to go; and had scarcely left the peak when the clouds enveloped it. [4]
Leaving London at twenty minutes before ten in the forenoon, we arrived in Paris at six in the afternoon. [6]
It was a trying five minutes for King, who felt as guilty, as if the White Sulphur were private property into which he had intruded without an invitation. [4]
Clam spells the trained nurse afternoons; I am allowed to see Mrs. Clemens 20 minutes twice a day and write her two letters a day provided I put no news in them. [5]
It warn't no towhead that you could float by in ten minutes. [5]
The old doctor took it and put the wrong end to his ear and the other to the patient's chest, and kept it there about two minutes, looking all the time as wise as an old owl. [6]
It brings people together in the easiest possible way, for ten minutes or an hour, just as their engagements or fancies may settle it. [6]
In moderate obedience to this summons Honora arrived, on the evening in question, before the ornamental ironwork of Mrs. Dallam's front door at a few minutes after seven o'clock. [9]
She shrank closer to the wall, but the seconds became minutes, and no one appeared. [10]
However, I went to the bookcase, and when I had been looking six or seven minutes I found I was obliged to refer to the young man. [5]
Presently he ceased to talk, and rode in silence for many minutes. [9]
The telegram seems to say, "The Sovereigns and the Royal Children expect themselves at Rome tomorrow at fifty-one minutes after fifteen o'clock. [5]
She suffered it to remain on her beautiful face only a few minutes, but it gave me reason enough to urge you to sound a warning if his Majesty's late love should render him more yielding than is desirable. [10]
He continued, still to himself, "I must change my plan again; I can't seem to strike one that will stand the requirements of this most variegated emergency five minutes on a stretch. [5]
And it seemed to him that even the sun, which had been shining brilliantly a few minutes before in a cloudless sky, had disappeared behind clouds, for a strange twilight, unlike anything he had ever seen, surrounded him. [10]
The two-miles walk to her beloved retreat seemed a matter of minutes only, so busy were her thoughts. [11]
Another jackass pretends to have kept a table of the through trains on the Sumsic division, and says they've averaged forty-five minutes late at Edmundton. [9]
When he came to form governments for the Territories north of the line of 36 degrees 30 minutes, why could he not have let that matter stand as it was standing? [7]
Was she face to face with ruin already, she who, two minutes ago, was as safe and happy as a young bird in its nest? [11]
At ten minutes to eight she emerged again and glanced anxiously at Mrs. Holt's door; and scarcely had she reached the lower hall before he drove into the circle. [9]
At sixteen minutes to eight a mild excitement occurred, an incident of some significance which served to detain many waverers. [9]
The adjutant galloped to Claparede's division and a few minutes later the Young Guards stationed behind the knoll moved forward. [2]
The picketing had to be done quickly, in the few minutes that were to elapse before the gates should close. [9]
I listened undisturbed to a piece of music that was fifteen minutes long--always expecting some tardy ticket-holders to come crowding past my knees, and being continuously and pleasantly disappointed--but when the last note was struck, here came the stream again. [5]
During the whole time that "King Lear" was playing the curtain was never down two minutes at any one time. [5]
At the same time his mother-in-law, Prince Vasili's wife, sent to him imploring him to come if only for a few minutes to discuss a most important matter. [2]
Only a brief time for consideration remained; for, even as she bowed her head on the bosom of her friend, the "introducer" entered the room, crying, "Her illustrious Majesty will expect those whom she summoned in a few minutes! [10]
Within a decent time (for the Indian is decorous) blanketed deputations filled the archways under the trees and waited there as the minutes ran into hours. [9]
A delay of three minutes would be enough, for it was a long way, and the distance could only be covered with good luck in the time. [11]
They only had three minutes to talk together alone, and two of them were up. [11]
It seemed hardly three minutes after Jasmine's entrance when she appeared in the doorway again, and, after a hasty glance up and down the street, sped away as swiftly as she could, and, at the corner, turned up sharply towards the Strand. [11]
He felt as though life was suspended for many minutes, when it was proclaimed that he, Luke Tarboe, would inherit the property. [11]
On his way thither, feeling a certain faintness, he turned aside into a small house whose occupants he knew, and asked to sit down for a brief rest, and then, as the faintness increased, to lie undisturbed on the lounge for a few minutes. [4]
Nothing daunted by this reception, he clung tight to his opponent, and bit and hammered away with such good-will and heartiness, that it was at least a couple of minutes before he was dislodged. [12]
Some minutes before this Mr. Burley rushed from the mansion on Telegraph Hill without meeting or taking formal leave of anybody. [5]
I 'll have this here fella,h fixed 'n less 'n two minutes. [6]
You are only thirty-four minutes wrong. [5]
In the first thirty minutes there was a tremendous drop in Henderson stocks. [4]
For the next thirty minutes every man held his watch in his hand and was restless, silent, and uneasy. [5]
Well, sir, next they took it into their heads that they would like some music; so they made me stand up and sing "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" till I dropped-at thirteen minutes past four this morning. [5]
No, they don't; they save enough in three minutes to support the family seven years. [5]
So awed were they by the presence of a living United States Senator, that during three minutes not a "spit ball" was thrown. [5]

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