All 43 Uses of
minute
in
Anne Of Green Gables
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- I'm clean puzzled, that's what, and I won't know a minute's peace of mind or conscience until I know what has taken Matthew Cuthbert out of Avonlea today."†
Chpt 1
- I'll come back in a few minutes for the candle.†
Chpt 3
- Anne could evidently be smart to some purpose for she was down-stairs in ten minutes' time, with her clothes neatly on, her hair brushed and braided, her face washed, and a comfortable consciousness pervading her soul that she had fulfilled all Marilla's requirements.†
Chpt 4
- "And if there isn't Mrs. Peter coming up the lane this blessed minute!" exclaimed Mrs. Spencer, bustling her guests through the hall into the parlor, where a deadly chill struck on them as if the air had been strained so long through dark green, closely drawn blinds that it had lost every particle of warmth it had ever possessed.†
Chpt 6
- Anne promptly departed for the sitting-room across the hall; she failed to return; after waiting ten minutes Marilla laid down her knitting and marched after her with a grim expression.†
Chpt 8
- Anne set the card up against the jugful of apple blossoms she had brought in to decorate the dinner-table—Marilla had eyed that decoration askance, but had said nothing—propped her chin on her hands, and fell to studying it intently for several silent minutes.†
Chpt 8
- "Anne," with greater severity, "get off that bed this minute and listen to what I have to say to you."†
Chpt 9
- He tiptoed along the hall and stood for several minutes outside the door of the east gable before he summoned courage to tap on it with his fingers and then open the door to peep in.†
Chpt 10
- Anne Shirley, you come right in here this minute, do you hear me!†
Chpt 13
- "Anne, you have talked even on for ten minutes by the clock," said Marilla.†
Chpt 13
- Will you let me hold the brooch for one minute, Marilla?†
Chpt 13
- I hadn't it on a minute.†
Chpt 14 *
- I remember now that when I took off my shawl Monday afternoon I laid it on the bureau for a minute.†
Chpt 14
- "Five minutes ago I was so miserable I was wishing I'd never been born and now I wouldn't change places with an angel!"†
Chpt 14
- When they saw Mr. Phillips emerging therefrom they ran for the schoolhouse; but the distance being about three times longer than Mr. Wright's lane they were very apt to arrive there, breathless and gasping, some three minutes too late.†
Chpt 15
- This unnatural solemnity lasted until after Diana had been taken to the east gable to lay off her hat and then had sat for ten minutes in the sitting room, toes in position.†
Chpt 16
- "I'll get it right off—I'll go and put the tea down this very minute."†
Chpt 16
- Sit right up this very minute and tell me what you are crying about.†
Chpt 16
- She said I was only to stay ten minutes and she's timing me by the clock."†
Chpt 17
- "Ten minutes isn't very long to say an eternal farewell in," said Anne tearfully.†
Chpt 17
- But in about three minutes she coughed up the phlegm and began to get better right away.†
Chpt 18
- A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession "MARILLA, can I go over to see Diana just for a minute?" asked Anne, running breathlessly down from the east gable one February evening.†
Chpt 19
- "You can go, but you're to be back here in just ten minutes, remember that."†
Chpt 19
- Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time, although probably no mortal will ever know just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana's important communication within the limits of ten minutes.†
Chpt 19
- Barry was here a few minutes ago on her way to Carmody.†
Chpt 19
- Carrie Sloane kept saying every few minutes, 'The time has come for us to part,' and that would start us off again whenever we were in any danger of cheering up.†
Chpt 21
- Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves Matthew was having a bad ten minutes of it.†
Chpt 25
- They did not see Matthew, who shrank bashfully back into the shadows beyond the woodbox with a boot in one hand and a bootjack in the other, and he watched them shyly for the aforesaid ten minutes as they put on caps and jackets and talked about the dialogue and the concert.†
Chpt 25
- Get right up this minute and tell me.†
Chpt 27
- This minute, I say.†
Chpt 27
- I'd be popping up every minute or so to see where I was and if I wasn't drifting too far out.†
Chpt 28
- For a few minutes Anne, drifting slowly down, enjoyed the romance of her situation to the full.†
Chpt 28
- But mine was answered, for the flat bumped right into a pile for a minute and I flung the scarf and the shawl over my shoulder and scrambled up on a big providential stub.†
Chpt 28
- The minutes passed by, each seeming an hour to the unfortunate lily maid.†
Chpt 28
- It was a long drive, but Anne and Diana enjoyed every minute of it.†
Chpt 29
- "I've enjoyed every minute of the time," said Anne, throwing her arms impulsively about the old woman's neck and kissing her wrinkled cheek.†
Chpt 29
- "Father brought the paper home from Bright River not ten minutes ago—it came out on the afternoon train, you know, and won't be here till tomorrow by mail—and when I saw the pass list I just rushed over like a wild thing.†
Chpt 32
- Excuse me a minute, Diana.†
Chpt 32
- Anne was pale and quiet; in ten more minutes she would know who had won the medal and who the Avery.†
Chpt 36
- Beyond those ten minutes there did not seem, just then, to be anything worth being called Time.†
Chpt 36
- I haven't been alone one minute since it happened—and I want to be.†
Chpt 37
- For a minute Anne, after her first quick exclamation of dismay, was silent.†
Chpt 38
- It seemed just a few minutes.†
Chpt 38
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.