All 18 Uses of
minute
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- He now took the stick from my hands and examined it for a few minutes with his naked eyes.†
Chpt 1
- Sir Charles had evidently stood there for five or ten minutes.†
Chpt 3
- In one hour and five minutes I meet him at Waterloo Station.†
Chpt 3
- He comes in fifty minutes.†
Chpt 3 *
- Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash?†
Chpt 3
- I whipped up the mare and we were there under the ten minutes.†
Chpt 5
- The coachman, a hard-faced, gnarled little fellow, saluted Sir Henry Baskerville, and in a few minutes we were flying swiftly down the broad, white road.†
Chpt 6
- A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars' heads of the Baskervilles.†
Chpt 6
- In a very few minutes, sir.†
Chpt 6
- She turned and had disappeared in a few minutes among the scattered boulders, while I, with my soul full of vague fears, pursued my way to Baskerville Hall.†
Chpt 7
- For some minutes he stood watching intently.†
Chpt 8
- The baronet stood for a minute looking after them, and then he walked slowly back the way that he had come, his head hanging, the very picture of dejection.†
Chpt 9
- In five minutes we were outside the door, starting upon our expedition.†
Chpt 9
- He thought for a few minutes.†
Chpt 10
- For a minute I stood there with the paper in my hands thinking out the meaning of this curt message.†
Chpt 11
- He was only a minute or so inside, and then I heard the key turn once more and he passed me and re-entered the house.†
Chpt 14
- Every minute that white woolly plain which covered one half of the moor was drifting closer and closer to the house.†
Chpt 14
- In a minute we had torn off the gag, unswathed the bonds, and Mrs. Stapleton sank upon the floor in front of us.†
Chpt 14
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.