All 35 Uses of
minute
in
The Silver Chair
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- After about a minute's scramble they stopped to listen, and knew by the noises they heard that they were being followed.†
Chpt 1
- "I was only here about a minute before you," said Scrubb.†
Chpt 3
- It was then hardly ten minutes since they had first heard her cry.†
Chpt 4
- They found a place where they could scramble up, and in about ten minutes stood panting at the top.†
Chpt 6
- After about twenty-five minutes the giants apparently had a quarrel.†
Chpt 6
- But he was so stupid that he would do exactly the same thing a minute later.†
Chpt 6
- Ten minutes later they were falling quite thickly.†
Chpt 7
- In twenty minutes the ground was noticeably white.†
Chpt 7
- Jill thought the same, but was asleep in five minutes.†
Chpt 8
- The noise of hounds and horns and giant voices guided them, so that in a few minutes they reached the courtyard.†
Chpt 8
- In a few minutes they were back on the broad, steep road which led down from the main gate of the castle.†
Chpt 9
- A few minutes ago when they had been in the kitchen, she had thought that if only they could once get out of the castle, their escape would be almost complete.†
Chpt 9
- Jill, breathless and reeling, came to the place about a minute later.†
Chpt 9
- You had to go flat on your face for what seemed like half an hour, though it may really have been only five minutes.†
Chpt 10
- "Where I come from," said Jill, who was disliking him more every minute, "they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives."†
Chpt 11
- And the minutes are slipping past.†
Chpt 11
- She began to play it with her fingers — a steady, monotonous thrumming that you didn't notice after a few minutes.†
Chpt 12
- We have all been dreaming, these last few minutes.†
Chpt 12
- For the last few minutes Jill had been feeling that there was something she must remember at all costs.†
Chpt 12
- She's the sort that wouldn't so much mind dying herself if she knew that the chap who killed her was going to be burned, or buried, or drowned five minutes later.†
Chpt 13
- Jill, who had been so cowardly about going through a black hole betweeen one cave and another, went in without fear between the stamping and snorting beasts, and she and the Prince had them saddled and bridled in a few minutes.†
Chpt 13
- The others, for a sickening minute or so, went forward at a walk.†
Chpt 13
- And those who heard him shouted it on to others, so that in a few minutes the whole of Underland was ringing with shouts and cheers, and gnomes by hundreds and thousands, leaping, turning cart-wheels, standing on their heads, playing leap-frog, and letting off huge crackers, came pressing round Coalblack and Snowflake.†
Chpt 14
- "Your honours," said Golg (and when they turned to look at him they could see nothing but blackness for a few minutes, their eyes were so dazzled).†
Chpt 14
- Those lamps will give out in five minutes, I shouldn't wonder.†
Chpt 14
- It would have been nasty enough at the bottom even five minutes later for the tide was running up the valley like a mill-race, and if it had come to swimming, the horses could hardly have won over.†
Chpt 14
- For of course Eustace had been having a very different time from Jill during the last few minutes.†
Chpt 15
- Then Eustace did see, and apologized to the Dwarfs (and the Dwarfs said not to mention it), and dozens of thick, hairy, dwarfish hands helped him out just as they had helped Jill out a few minutes before.†
Chpt 15
- While they were sipping it, the Dwarfs had already got all the snow and all the sods off a large strip of the hillside round the original hole, and the pickaxes and spades were now going as merrily as the feet of Fauns and Dryads had been going in the dance ten minutes before.†
Chpt 15
- Only ten minutes!†
Chpt 15 *
- You've got to be off in a few minutes and two Centaurs have very kindly offered to let you ride on their backs down to Cair Paravel.†
Chpt 16
- They began eating the minute they awoke.†
Chpt 16
- The three were talking with their heads close together for a few minutes, but no one could hear what they said.†
Chpt 16
- And you shall see their world — for five minutes of their time.†
Chpt 16
- For, with the strength of Aslan in them, Jill plied her crop on the girls and Caspian and Eustace plied the flats of their swords on the boys so well that in two minutes all the bullies were running like mad, crying out, 'Murder!†
Chpt 16
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.