All 8 Uses of
minute
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Mr. Utterson had been some minutes at his post, when he was 17) aware of an odd, light footstep drawing near.†
p. 16..9
- It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.†
p. 58..2
- We give you ten minutes to get to your stations.†
p. 61..9
- But now the ten minutes drew to an end.†
p. 63..1 *
- Five minutes afterwards, if you insist upon an explanation, you will have understood that these arrangements are of capital importance; and that by the neglect of one of them, fantastic as they must appear, you might have charged your conscience with my death or the shipwreck of my reason.†
p. 72..3
- I must have stared upon it for near half a minute, sunk as I was in the mere stupidity of wonder, before terror woke up in my breast as sudden and startling as the crash of cymbals; and bounding from my bed, I rushed to the mirror.†
p. 93..6
- I had soon dressed, as well as I was able, in clothes of my own size: had soon passed through the house, where Bradshaw stared and drew back at seeing Mr. Hyde at such an hour and in such a strange array; and ten minutes later, Dr. Jekyll had returned to his own shape and was sitting down, with a darkened brow, to make a feint of breakfasting.†
p. 94..5
- He walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less-frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.†
p. 103..9
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.