All 37 Uses of
minute
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- He 'pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it's all down again and I can't hit him a lick.†
Chpt 1
- Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles.†
Chpt 1
- In an instant both boys were rolling and tumbling in the dirt, gripped together like cats; and for the space of a minute they tugged and tore at each other's hair and clothes, punched and scratched each other's nose, and covered themselves with dust and glory.†
Chpt 1
- Gimme the bucket—I won't be gone only a a minute.†
Chpt 2
- But only for a minute—only while he could button the flower inside his jacket, next his heart—or next his stomach, possibly, for he was not much posted in anatomy, and not hypercritical, anyway.†
Chpt 3
- He waylaid other boys as they came, and went on buying tickets of various colors ten or fifteen minutes longer.†
Chpt 4
- He began after this fashion: "Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two.†
Chpt 4
- She observed it, "made a mouth" at him and gave him the back of her head for the space of a minute.†
Chpt 6
- A tremendous whack came down on Tom's shoulders, and its duplicate on Joe's; and for the space of two minutes the dust continued to fly from the two jackets and the whole school to enjoy it.†
Chpt 7
- A cry of "Scat! you devil!" and the crash of an empty bottle against the back of his aunt's woodshed brought him wide awake, and a single minute later he was dressed and out of the window and creeping along the roof of the "ell" on all fours.†
Chpt 9
- Finally a spade struck upon the coffin with a dull woody accent, and within another minute or two the men had hoisted it out on the ground.†
Chpt 9
- Three —four—five minutes passed, and then Potter began to stir and moan.†
Chpt 9
- I wish I may die this minute if I did.†
Chpt 9
- Two or three minutes later the murdered man, the blanketed corpse, the lidless coffin, and the open grave were under no inspection but the moon's.†
Chpt 9
- Within five minutes he was dressed and down-stairs, feeling sore and drowsy.†
Chpt 10
- Injun Joe repeated his statement, just as calmly, a few minutes afterward on the inquest, under oath; and the boys, seeing that the lightnings were still withheld, were confirmed in their belief that Joe had sold himself to the devil.†
Chpt 11
- 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.†
Chpt 14
- While Joe was slicing bacon for breakfast, Tom and Huck asked him to hold on a minute; they stepped to a promising nook in the river-bank and threw in their lines; almost immediately they had reward.†
Chpt 14
- CHAPTER XV A FEW minutes later Tom was in the shoal water of the bar, wading toward the Illinois shore.†
Chpt 15
- A minute or two later the skiff's head was standing high up, against the boat's swell, and the voyage was begun.†
Chpt 15
- At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards downstream, out of danger of possible stragglers.†
Chpt 15
- Tom pressed his fingers on his forehead an anxious minute, and then said: "I've got it now!†
Chpt 18
- Becky resumed her picture inspections with Alfred, but as the minutes dragged along and no Tom came to suffer, her triumph began to cloud and she lost interest; gravity and absent-mindedness followed, and then melancholy; two or three times she pricked up her ear at a footstep, but it was a false hope; no Tom came.†
Chpt 18
- She put the jacket away, and stood by musing a minute.†
Chpt 19
- We've got to do it to-night, too, because if somebody sees these holes they'll know in a minute what's here and they'll go for it."†
Chpt 25
- There's an old rusty pick over amongst the weeds in the corner the other side of the fireplace—I saw it a minute ago."†
Chpt 26
- It will be dark in fifteen minutes —and then let them follow us if they want to.†
Chpt 26
- Silence, for a minute.†
Chpt 27
- Lemme think a minute.†
Chpt 27
- Three minutes later the old man and his sons, well armed, were up the hill, and just entering the sumach path on tiptoe, their weapons in their hands.†
Chpt 29
- The alarm swept from lip to lip, from group to group, from street to street, and within five minutes the bells were wildly clanging and the whole town was up!†
Chpt 30
- People said it was heartbreaking to hear her call her child, and raise her head and listen a whole minute at a time, then lay it wearily down again with a moan.†
Chpt 32
- CHAPTER XXXIII WITHIN a few minutes the news had spread, and a dozen skiff-loads of men were on their way to McDougal's cave, and the ferryboat, well filled with passengers, soon followed.†
Chpt 33
- The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick—a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours.†
Chpt 33
- Just you lay quiet here and watch the stuff till I run and hook Benny Taylor's little wagon; I won't be gone a minute."†
Chpt 33
- Some minutes later the widow's guests were at the supper-table, and a dozen children were propped up at little side-tables in the same room, after the fashion of that country and that day.†
Chpt 34
- You just wait a minute.†
Chpt 34 *
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.