All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- She might have looked her thanks to Gabriel on a minute scale, but she did not speak them; more probably she felt none, for in gaining her a passage he had lost her her point, and we know how women take a favour of that kind.
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)minute = small
- In feeling for each other's palm in the gloom before the money could be passed, a minute incident occurred which told much.
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1) *
- The clean, sleek creature arose from its fleece—how perfectly like Aphrodite rising from the foam should have been seen to be realized—looking startled and shy at the loss of its garment, which lay on the floor in one soft cloud, united throughout, the portion visible being the inner surface only, which, never before exposed, was white as snow, and without flaw or blemish of the minutest kind.
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)minutest = smallest
- The creeping plants about the old manor-house were bowed with rows of heavy water drops, which had upon objects behind them the effect of minute lenses of high magnifying power.
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)minute = small
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- The smaller of its hands, too, occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 2)
- Gabriel had not beheld the sight for more than half a minute, when the vehicle was brought to a standstill just beneath his eyes.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 2)
- The sensation may be caused by the panoramic glide of the stars past earthly objects, which is perceptible in a few minutes of stillness, or by the better outlook upon space that a hill affords, or by the wind, or by the solitude; but whatever be its origin, the impression of riding along is vivid and abiding.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 2)
- He carried a lantern in his hand, and closing the door behind him, came forward and busied himself about this nook of the field for nearly twenty minutes, the lantern light appearing and disappearing here and there, and brightening him or darkening him as he stood before or behind it.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 2)
- Closing the slide to windward, he turned to open the other; on second thoughts the farmer considered that he would first sit down leaving both closed for a minute or two, till the temperature of the hut was a little raised.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 2)
- If you will wait a minute, Bathsheba will be in.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- "Come," said Gabriel, freshening again; "think a minute or two.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- Twenty minutes.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2) *
- Twere blush, blush, blush with me every minute of the time, when she was speaking to me.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- A few minutes later, when the remaining ones were on their legs and about to depart, Fray came back again in a hurry.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- "There—Mrs. Coggan is going!" said Bathsheba, exhaling her relief in the form of a long breath which had lain in her bosom a minute or more.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- "I'll see, sir," said Mrs. Coggan, and in a minute appeared in the room.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- The low though extensive hall, supported by beams and pillars, and latterly dignified by the name of Corn Exchange, was thronged with hot men who talked among each other in twos and threes, the speaker of the minute looking sideways into his auditor's face and concentrating his argument by a contraction of one eyelid during delivery.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 2)
- Gabriel, at that minute, descended the hill towards the right.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- I met the mail-cart ten minutes ago, and a letter was put into my hand, which I opened without reading the address.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- The silence grew to be a noticeable thing as the minutes went on, and nobody else appeared, and not a soul moved.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- It was hardly credible that the jack had not got wrong with the minutes when the rattle began again, the puppet emerged, and the four quarters were struck fitfully as before.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- —I thought that church with the spire was All Saints', and I was at the door at half-past eleven to a minute as you said.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- The result from capital employed in the production of any movement of a mental nature is sometimes as tremendous as the cause itself is absurdly minute.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- His mistress came up and looked upon them in silence for a minute or two; then she said— "Cain, go to the lower mead and catch the bay mare.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2)
- Nor will I for a minute.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2)
- Here, after the lapse of a few minutes, several more fell down, and lay helpless and livid as the rest.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2)
- In a minute they had vanished through the gate, and she stood alone with the dying flock.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2)
- Tall scrambled off to the field, and in two minutes was on Poll, the bay, bare-backed, and with only a halter by way of rein.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2)
- Three-and-twenty minutes and a half since you took the first lock from its forehead.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2)
- She found her voice in a minute.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- She made use of an unobserved minute whilst his attention was absorbed in the operation to arrange her plumes a little.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- "It will not take five minutes," said Troy.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- She waited one minute—two minutes—thought of Troy's disappointment at her non-fulfilment of a promised engagement, till she again ran along the field, clambered over the bank, and followed the original direction.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2)
- She waited one minute—two minutes—thought of Troy's disappointment at her non-fulfilment of a promised engagement, till she again ran along the field, clambered over the bank, and followed the original direction.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2)
- A minute later and she saw his scarlet form disappear amid the ferny thicket, almost in a flash, like a brand swiftly waved.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2)
- That minute's interval had brought the blood beating into her face, set her stinging as if aflame to the very hollows of her feet, and enlarged emotion to a compass which quite swamped thought.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2)
- In three minutes, without pause or modification, she had written a letter to Boldwood, at his address beyond Casterbridge, saying mildly but firmly that she had well considered the whole subject he had brought before her and kindly given her time to decide upon; that her final decision was that she could not marry him.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2)
- What you call encouragement was the childish game of an idle minute.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- A few minutes after eleven had struck, Maryann turned in her bed with a sense of being disturbed.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- Here she could see some object which circumstances proved to be a vehicle, for after a few minutes spent apparently in harnessing, she heard the trot of the horse down the road, mingled with the sound of light wheels.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- Less than five minutes brought up Oak again, running at the same pace, with two halters dangling from his hand.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- Weatherbury Bottom was reached in three or four minutes.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- I could neither wake Maryann nor get into the house, though I hammered for ten minutes against her window-sill.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- In ten minutes he was back again, and made as if he were going to call upon Troy at the carrier's.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- "But, dear me, I had better go back for my bag, because my slippers and brush and comb are in it; you run home whilst I fetch it, and I'll promise to be in your parlour in ten minutes."†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- No, no; wait a minute.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- In two minutes a light appeared in the passage.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- In a few minutes they moved on again towards the house.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- Gabriel, for a minute, rose above his own grief in noticing Boldwood's.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- Ten minutes later his lonely figure might have been seen dragging four large water-proof coverings across the yard, and soon two of these heaps of treasure in grain were covered snug—two cloths to each.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (minute as in: minute size) small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
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(2) (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.