All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Gone with the Wind
- Pin points of sunlight came in through minute holes in the shades and about the edges.
Chpt 3.22 (definition 1) *minute = very small
- They had been hidden in his room in the cellar and he had examined them minutely.
Chpt 5.53 (definition 2) *minutely = with careful attention to detail
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- They both thought for a minute.†
Chpt 1.1 (definition 3)
- But the minutes slipped by and Gerald did not come.†
Chpt 1.2 (definition 3)
- That everyone who met him did discover his kindly heart within five minutes was unknown to him; and his vanity would have suffered tremendously if he had found it out, for he liked to think that when he bawled orders at the top of his voice everyone trembled and obeyed.†
Chpt 1.2 (definition 3)
- Tis ashamed of you I am this minute.†
Chpt 1.2 (definition 3)
- Then somehow she would maneuver to get a few minutes alone with him, away from the crowd.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 3)
- Just a minute, Ma'm, before you go," said Gerald.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 3)
- And I won't be keeping you but one minute by the clock.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 3)
- No, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 3)
- Why, I've got goose flesh this minute, just thinking about it!†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 3)
- In a minute, she'd feel all right and then she'd slip quietly into the little dressing room adjoining India's room, unloose her stays and creep in and lay herself on one of the beds beside the sleeping girls.†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 3)
- For the past year, she had been so engrossed in her own woes, so bored by any mention of war, she did not know that from the minute the fighting first began, Atlanta had been transformed.†
Chpt 2.8 (definition 3)
- He had refused to permit it and stated heatedly that she had no more sense than a June bug and furthermore it gave him the fidgets to be around her longer than five minutes.†
Chpt 2.8 (definition 3)
- It had seemed such a large place a few minutes before, and now it was packed, warm with summer-night odors of sachet and cologne water and hair pomade and burning bayberry candles, fragrant with flowers, faintly dusty as many feet trod the old drill floors.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 3)
- For a few minutes they went through a brisk drill that brought perspiration to their foreheads and cheers and applause from the audience.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 3)
- But a lot of the militia are perfectly able to tote a rifle and that's what they ought to be doing this minute.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 3)
- The hospital committee just had to have us for this booth because at the last minute— A pillow case?†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 3)
- Then I'll speak my mind right this minute.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 3)
- Not for a minute.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 3)
- It will only be a few minutes.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 3)
- We ought to have three convalescents in our house this minute, like everybody else, and some of the soldiers out to dinner every Sunday.†
Chpt 2.10 (definition 3)
- "You all must stand by me and not leave me alone with him for one minute," cried Scarlett.†
Chpt 2.10 (definition 3)
- When the wine was on the table and the two girls rose to leave him, Gerald cocked a severe eye at his daughter from under frowning brows and commanded her presence alone for a few minutes.†
Chpt 2.10 (definition 3)
- She wished she were dead, this very minute, then everyone would be sorry they had been so hateful.†
Chpt 2.10 (definition 3)
- I wonder if they know they are fighting for a Cause that was lost the minute the first shot was fired, for our Cause is really our own way of living and that is gone already.†
Chpt 2.11 (definition 3)
- And she said, 'Please, Mrs. Wilkes, do speak a minute with me.'†
Chpt 2.13 (definition 3)
- And he said, 'You git in dis hyah cah'ige dis minute!'†
Chpt 2.13 (definition 3)
- Probably her hairy little Zouave was safe in Richmond this very minute.†
Chpt 2.14 (definition 3)
- They should be out any minute, Madam.†
Chpt 2.14 (definition 3)
- Why, right this minute he might be dead and she would not know it until tomorrow, or perhaps a week from tomorrow.†
Chpt 2.14 (definition 3)
- If only she could pat his sleeve every few minutes to make sure he was really there, hold his hand and use his handkerchief to wipe away her tears of joy.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 3)
- They're two sizes too small and they're killing me this minute.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 3)
- All that afternoon, she maneuvered to be alone with Ashley, even for a few minutes, but Melanie was beside him constantly, and India and Honey, their pale lashless eyes glowing, followed him about the house.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 3)
- The week had passed swiftly, like a dream, a dream fragrant with the smell of pine boughs and Christmas trees, bright with little candles and home-made tinsel, a dream where minutes flew as rapidly as heartbeats.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 3)
- Such a breathless week when something within her drove Scarlett with mingled pain and pleasure to pack and cram every minute with incidents to remember after he was gone, happenings which she could examine at leisure in the long months ahead, extracting every morsel of comfort from them—dance, sing, laugh, fetch and carry for Ashley, anticipate his wants, smile when he smiles, be silent when he talks, follow him with your eyes so that each line of his erect body, each lift of his…†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 3)
- Even the few minutes that remained might be snatched away from her if Melanie followed him to the door, to the carriage block.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 3)
- Now she would have him for herself for a few precious minutes.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 3)
- So Aunt Pitty had her party, and, at the last minute, a guest she did not expect, or desire, arrived.†
Chpt 3.17 (definition 3)
- Don't fret your mind one minute.†
Chpt 3.17 (definition 3)
- Wait a minute—†
Chpt 3.17 (definition 3)
- Oh, just a minute, Sergeant!†
Chpt 3.18 (definition 3)
- I'd claw her eyes out in five minutes.†
Chpt 3.18 (definition 3)
- Secretly she was just as frightened as he was, but it angered her to be reminded of it every minute by his tense, drawn face.†
Chpt 3.19 (definition 3)
- So she feared to send him home and he remained in Atlanta, a frightened, silent little ghost, pattering about desperately after his mother, fearing to have her skirt out of his hand for even a minute.†
Chpt 3.19 (definition 3)
- It wasn't possible that she, Scarlett O'Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute.†
Chpt 3.19 (definition 3)
- She stood for a minute looking at the keepsakes in her hand.†
Chpt 3.19 (definition 3)
- Feeling that she would burst a blood vessel if she stayed another minute, she stormed up the stairs.†
Chpt 3.19 (definition 3)
- Yankees perhaps at Tara, now, this minute!†
Chpt 3.20 (definition 3)
- Her heart acted very queerly, beating regularly for several minutes and then thumping so loudly and swiftly it almost made her sick at her stomach.†
Chpt 3.21 (definition 3)
Definitions:
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(1) (minute as in: minute size) small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
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(2) (minute as in: minute description) detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
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(3) (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.