All 50 Uses of
minute
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening.†
Chpt 2
- Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together.†
Chpt 2
- Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together.†
Chpt 2
- This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that.†
Chpt 2
- I reckoned I couldn't stand it more'n a minute longer, but I set my teeth hard and got ready to try.†
Chpt 2
- He said he would split open a raw Irish potato and stick the quarter in between and keep it there all night, and next morning you couldn't see no brass, and it wouldn't feel greasy no more, and so anybody in town would take it in a minute, let alone a hair-ball.†
Chpt 4
- I reckoned I was scared now, too; but in a minute I see I was mistaken—that is, after the first jolt, as you may say, when my breath sort of hitched, he being so unexpected; but right away after I see I warn't scared of him worth bothring about.†
Chpt 5
- When I'd read about a half a minute, he fetched the book a whack with his hand and knocked it across the house.†
Chpt 5
- He set there a-mumbling and a-growling a minute, and then he says: "AIN'T you a sweet-scented dandy, though?†
Chpt 5
- That made me pretty uneasy again, but only for a minute; I reckoned I wouldn't stay on hand till he got that chance.†
Chpt 6
- 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.†
Chpt 6
- I'll be along in a minute."†
Chpt 7
- Well, I didn't see no way for a while, but by and by pap raised up a minute to drink another barrel of water, and he says: "Another time a man comes a-prowling round here you roust me out, you hear?†
Chpt 7
- When I woke up I didn't know where I was for a minute.†
Chpt 7
- The next minute I was a-spinning down stream soft but quick in the shade of the bank.†
Chpt 7
- So I took my gun and slipped off towards where I had run across that camp fire, stopping every minute or two to listen.†
Chpt 8
- He looked pretty uneasy, and didn't say nothing for a minute.†
Chpt 8
- But only about a minute.†
Chpt 11
- Hold on a minute.†
Chpt 11
- There ain't a minute to lose.†
Chpt 11
- "Watchman your grandmother," I says; "there ain't nothing to watch but the texas and the pilot-house; and do you reckon anybody's going to resk his life for a texas and a pilot-house such a night as this, when it's likely to break up and wash off down the river any minute?"†
Chpt 12
- "Hold on a minute; I hain't had my say yit.†
Chpt 12
- She was very deep, and I see in a minute there warn't much chance for anybody being alive in her.†
Chpt 13
- You jes' take en look at it a minute.†
Chpt 14
- I see the fog closing down, and it made me so sick and scared I couldn't budge for most a half a minute it seemed to me—and then there warn't no raft in sight; you couldn't see twenty yards.†
Chpt 15
- That was all right as far as it went, but the towhead warn't sixty yards long, and the minute I flew by the foot of it I shot out into the solid white fog, and hadn't no more idea which way I was going than a dead man.†
Chpt 15
- The whooping went on, and in about a minute I come a-booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the currrent was tearing by them so swift.†
Chpt 15
- It warn't no towhead that you could float by in ten minutes.†
Chpt 15
- I kept quiet, with my ears cocked, about fifteen minutes, I reckon.†
Chpt 15
- I been setting here talking with you all night till you went to sleep about ten minutes ago, and I reckon I done the same.†
Chpt 15
- Dad fetch it, how is I gwyne to dream all dat in ten minutes?†
Chpt 15
- Jim didn't say nothing for about five minutes, but set there studying over it.†
Chpt 15
- It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.†
Chpt 15
- He said he'd be mighty sure to see it, because he'd be a free man the minute he seen it, but if he missed it he'd be in a slave country again and no more show for freedom.†
Chpt 16
- Just see what a difference it made in him the minute he judged he was about free.†
Chpt 16
- Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on; s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up, would you felt better than what you do now?†
Chpt 16
- If you stay here botherin' around me for about a half a minute longer you'll get something you won't want."†
Chpt 16
- I could always stay under water a minute; this time I reckon I stayed under a minute and a half.†
Chpt 16
- I could always stay under water a minute; this time I reckon I stayed under a minute and a half.†
Chpt 16
- IN about a minute somebody spoke out of a window without putting his head out, and says: "Be done, boys!†
Chpt 17
- The candle was on the floor, and there they all was, looking at me, and me at them, for about a quarter of a minute: Three big men with guns pointed at me, which made me wince, I tell you; the oldest, gray and about sixty, the other two thirty or more—all of them fine and handsome —and the sweetest old gray-headed lady, and back of her two young women which I couldn't see right well.†
Chpt 17
- When he turned into a cloudbank it was awful dark for half a minute, and that was enough; there wouldn't nothing go wrong again for a week.†
Chpt 18
- The old gentleman's eyes blazed a minute—'twas pleasure, mainly, I judged—then his face sort of smoothed down, and he says, kind of gentle: "I don't like that shooting from behind a bush.†
Chpt 18
- She was mighty red in the face for a minute, and her eyes lighted up, and it made her powerful pretty.†
Chpt 18
- All the men jumped off of their horses and grabbed the hurt one and started to carry him to the store; and that minute the two boys started on the run.†
Chpt 18
- I couldn't get my breath for most a minute.†
Chpt 18
- Jack's been heah; he say he reck'n you's ben shot, kase you didn' come home no mo'; so I's jes' dis minute a startin' de raf' down towards de mouf er de crick, so's to be all ready for to shove out en leave soon as Jack comes agin en tells me for certain you IS dead.†
Chpt 18
- They done it, and soon as they was aboard I lit out for our towhead, and in about five or ten minutes we heard the dogs and the men away off, shouting.†
Chpt 19
- Jim and me was in a sweat again for a minute, being afraid there was going to be some more trouble amongst them; so we was pretty glad when the duke says: " 'tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression.†
Chpt 20
- I'll just walk up and down a minute, and see if I can call it back from recollection's vaults."†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(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.