All 29 Uses of
minute
in
The Horse and His Boy
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- For the next few minutes Shasta was at work, very cautiously to avoid jingling, while the Horse said things like, "Get that girth a bit tighter," or "You'll find a buckle lower down," or "You'll need to shorten those stirrups a good bit."†
Chpt 1
- "It sounds like another horse — between us and the wood," said Shasta after he had listened for about a minute.†
Chpt 2
- About a minute later, however, he broke into a gallop again, and no wonder.†
Chpt 2
- When they had galloped for several minutes without any further noise from the lions Shasta said, "I say!†
Chpt 2
- About fifteen minutes later they were down among them, plodding on a level road with white walls on each side and trees bending over the walls.†
Chpt 4
- We shall be there in a minute.†
Chpt 4
- There's not a minute to lose.†
Chpt 5
- Greatly to his relief he saw, about five minutes' walk away on his left, what must certainly be the Tombs, just as Bree had described them; great masses of mouldering stone shaped like gigantic bee-hive, but a little narrower.†
Chpt 6
- Now that Shasta knew he would have to spend the night alone (it was getting darker every minute) he began to like the look of the place less and less.†
Chpt 6
- And he skulked behind the Tomb, looking out every few minutes, and wondering which was the least dangerous thing to do.†
Chpt 6
- When the curtains had been drawn Aravis found that she was in a courtyard-garden very like the one that Shasta had been taken into a few minutes earlier in another part of the city.†
Chpt 7
- There's a great feast on tonight (I must start getting my hair done for it in a few minutes) and the whole place will be a blaze of lights.†
Chpt 7
- A very few minutes brought them to the palace gates.†
Chpt 7
- She had always lived in the country and had hated every minute of her time in Tashbaan.†
Chpt 9
- But you don't get a company of two hundred horse and horsemen watered and victualled and armed and saddled and started all in a minute.†
Chpt 9
- The Horses were far too tired to speak but they swung round towards it and in a minute or two they were entering the gully.†
Chpt 9
- It was about ten minutes later when all four of them (the two children wet nearly all over) came out and began to notice their surroundings.†
Chpt 9
- About ten minutes later the careful Hwin said, "But we mustn't go to sleep.†
Chpt 9
- If you are really so humbled as you sounded a minute ago, you must learn to listen to sense.†
Chpt 10
- The sound of the cavalry grew rapidly nearer and in a minute or two Shasta realized that they were at the crossroads.†
Chpt 11
- There was a kind of track running through it and he had not followed this for many minutes when he heard a thick and rather wheezy voice saying to him.†
Chpt 12
- Every few minutes they were joined by other creatures, some from the branches overhead and some from little underground houses at their feet, till the party consisted of five rabbits, a squirrel, two magpies, a goat-foot faun, and a mouse, who all talked at the same time and all agreed with the Hedgehog.†
Chpt 12
- After that there was so much bustle and talk and coming and going that Shasta for a few minutes lost sight of Corin and Edmund and Lucy.†
Chpt 12
- It's mere murder sending a child into the battle; he can't live five minutes.†
Chpt 13
- After a very horrible ten minutes or so Shasta realized suddenly that there were no longer any horses stamping about in the immediate neighbourhood and that the noise (for there were still a good many noises going on) was no longer that of a battle.†
Chpt 13
- And Father was embarked in one of his own warships within twenty minutes.†
Chpt 14
- Wait for me a minute.†
Chpt 14 *
- It was five minutes before he rose again, blowing hard and covered with bits of bracken.†
Chpt 14
- Art Corin's elder by full twenty minutes.†
Chpt 15
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.