All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Wuthering Heights
- It is mine, at present; and, therefore, continue minutely.
Chpt 7 (definition 1) *minutely = with careful attention to detail
- He and Joseph were conversing about some farming business; he gave clear, minute directions concerning the matter discussed, but he spoke rapidly, and turned his head continually aside, and had the same excited expression, even more exaggerated.
Chpt 34 (definition 1)minute = detailed
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- In the absence of clear proofs of his condition, I deemed it best to abstain from noticing his curious conduct; and, five minutes afterwards, the entrance of Heathcliff relieved me, in some measure, from my uncomfortable state.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tails, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out — on their peril to keep me one minute longer — with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- In vapid listlessness I leant my head against the window, and continued spelling over Catherine Earnshaw — Heathcliff — Linton, till my eyes closed; but they had not rested five minutes when a glare of white letters started from the dark, as vivid as spectres — the air swarmed with Catherines; and rousing myself to dispel the obtrusive name, I discovered my candle-wick reclining on one of the antique volumes, and perfuming the place with an odour of roasted calf-skin.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- I reached this book, and a pot of ink from a shelf, and pushed the house-door ajar to give me light, and I have got the time on with writing for twenty minutes; but my companion is impatient, and proposes that we should appropriate the dairywoman's cloak, and have a scamper on the moors, under its shelter.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- I'll come in two minutes!'†
Chpt 3 (definition 2) *
- I bid them be quiet, now that they saw me returned, and, benumbed to my very heart, I dragged up-stairs; whence, after putting on dry clothes, and pacing to and fro thirty or forty minutes, to restore the animal heat, I adjourned to my study, feeble as a kitten: almost too much so to enjoy the cheerful fire and smoking coffee which the servant had prepared for my refreshment.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- But a minute's reflection convinced me it was not my ghostly Catherine.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Certainly she had ways with her such as I never saw a child take up before; and she put all of us past our patience fifty times and oftener in a day: from the hour she came down-stairs till the hour she went to bed, we had not a minute's security that she wouldn't be in mischief.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- The curate might set as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time I've cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- The curate might set as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time I've cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- I waited five minutes, but getting no answer left him.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- He'll be cramming his fingers in the tarts and stealing the fruit, if left alone with them a minute.'†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- 'Isabella and Edgar Linton talked of calling this afternoon,' she said, at the conclusion of a minute's silence.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- 'Nelly, do you never dream queer dreams?' she said, suddenly, after some minutes' reflection.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawl-less to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- — I seed young Linton boath coming and going, and I seed YAH' (directing his discourse to me), 'yah gooid fur nowt, slattenly witch! nip up and bolt into th' house, t' minute yah heard t' maister's horse-fit clatter up t' road.'†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- At this point of the housekeeper's story she chanced to glance towards the time-piece over the chimney; and was in amazement on seeing the minute-hand measure half-past one.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- 'It wants twenty minutes, sir, to taking the medicine,' she commenced.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- My master's surprise equalled or exceeded mine: he remained for a minute at a loss how to address the ploughboy, as he had called him.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- The meal hardly endured ten minutes.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- He would have recoiled still more had he been aware that her attachment rose unsolicited, and was bestowed where it awakened no reciprocation of sentiment; for the minute he discovered its existence he laid the blame on Heathcliff's deliberate designing.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- Mrs. Linton saw Isabella tear herself free, and run into the garden; and a minute after, Heathcliff opened the door.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- Three minutes' delay will render it involuntary and ignominious.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- It took his breath for a minute; and while he choked, Mr. Linton walked out by the back door into the yard, and from thence to the front entrance.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- A minute previously she was violent; now, supported on one arm, and not noticing my refusal to obey her, she seemed to find childish diversion in pulling the feathers from the rents she had just made, and ranging them on the sheet according to their different species: her mind had strayed to other associations.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- I spared a minute to open the gate for it, but instead of going to the house door, it coursed up and down snuffing the grass, and would have escaped to the road, had I not seized it and conveyed it in with me.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- If once I find it open he's done for; I do it invariably, even though the minute before I have been recalling a hundred reasons that should make me refrain: it is some devil that urges me to thwart my own schemes by killing him.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- Gladly did I take advantage of this intimation; and the minute I flung myself into a chair, by the fire, I nodded, and slept.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- Decide! because there is no reason for my lingering another minute, if you persist in your stubborn ill-nature!'†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
- The minute after a step traversed the hall; the open house was too tempting for Heathcliff to resist walking in: most likely he supposed that I was inclined to shirk my promise, and so resolved to trust to his own audacity.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- He neither spoke nor loosed his hold for some five minutes, during which period he bestowed more kisses than ever he gave in his life before, I daresay: but then my mistress had kissed him first, and I plainly saw that he could hardly bear, for downright agony, to look into her face!†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- 'Not for one minute,' she replied.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- 'She drew a sigh, and stretched herself, like a child reviving, and sinking again to sleep; and five minutes after I felt one little pulse at her heart, and nothing more!'†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- My anger was greater than my astonishment for a minute.†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- ' "I'll keep him out five minutes," he exclaimed.†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- Promise to hold your tongue, and before that clock strikes — it wants three minutes of one — you're a free woman!"†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- Nobody alive would regret me, or be ashamed, though I cut my throat this minute — and it's time to make an end!"†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- I happened to leave him ten minutes yesterday afternoon, and in that interval he fastened the two doors of the house against me, and he has spent the night in drinking himself to death deliberately!†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- 'It will be dark in ten minutes.†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- She ran, and returned and ran again, many times before my sober footsteps reached the gate, and then she seated herself on the grassy bank beside the path, and tried to wait patiently; but that was impossible: she couldn't be still a minute.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- 'Oh, he'll do very well,' said the master to me, after watching them a minute.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- Edgar Linton was silent a minute; an expression of exceeding sorrow overcast his features: he would have pitied the child on his own account; but, recalling Isabella's hopes and fears, and anxious wishes for her son, and her commendations of him to his care, he grieved bitterly at the prospect of yielding him up, and searched in his heart how it might be avoided.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- She said Mr. Heathcliff seemed to dislike him ever longer and worse, though he took some trouble to conceal it: he had an antipathy to the sound of his voice, and could not do at all with his sitting in the same room with him many minutes together.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- 'If thou weren't more a lass than a lad, I'd fell thee this minute, I would; pitiful lath of a crater!' retorted the angry boor, retreating, while his face burnt with mingled rage and mortification! for he was conscious of being insulted, and embarrassed how to resent it.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- Suppose, for a minute, that master and I were dead, and you were by yourself in the world: how would you feel, then?†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- I inquired, after waiting ten minutes.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- Miss has wasted too much time on you already: we cannot remain five minutes longer.'†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- Her day was divided between us; no amusement usurped a minute: she neglected her meals, her studies, and her play; and she was the fondest nurse that ever watched.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (minute as in: minute description) detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.
Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.