All 12 Uses of
minute
in
Treasure Island
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Once out upon the road, Black Dog, in spite of his wound, showed a wonderful clean pair of heels and disappeared over the edge of the hill in half a minute.†
Chpt 2
- We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and hearken.†
Chpt 4
- And that was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.†
Chpt 5
- So much I saw, almost in a dream, for I had not yet recovered from my horrid fear of a minute or two before.†
Chpt 12
- The plunge of our anchor sent up clouds of birds wheeling and crying over the woods, but in less than a minute they were down again and all was once more silent.†
Chpt 13
- All I ask is your word, Cap'n Smollett, to let me safe and sound out of this here stockade, and one minute to get out o' shot before a gun is fired."†
Chpt 20
- We're outnumbered, I needn't tell you that, but we fight in shelter; and a minute ago I should have said we fought with discipline.†
Chpt 21
- Meanwhile the schooner gradually fell off and filled again upon another tack, sailed swiftly for a minute or so, and brought up once more dead in the wind's eye.†
Chpt 24
- In three minutes I had the HISPANIOLA sailing easily before the wind along the coast of Treasure Island, with good hopes of turning the northern point ere noon and beating down again as far as North Inlet before high water, when we might beach her safely and wait till the subsiding tide permitted us to land.†
Chpt 25
- We skimmed before it like a bird, the coast of the island flashing by and the view changing every minute.†
Chpt 25
- In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discoloured to the hilt with blood.†
Chpt 26
- It was a two-guinea piece, and it went from hand to hand among them for a quarter of a minute.†
Chpt 33 *
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.