All 16 Uses of
minute
in
My Antonia
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- The minute supper was over, Otto took me into the kitchen to whisper to me about a pony down in the barn that had been bought for me at a sale; he had been riding him to find out whether he had any bad tricks, but he was a 'perfect gentleman,' and his name was Dude.†
Book 1
- I ran up and drove at his head with my spade, struck him fairly across the neck, and in a minute he was all about my feet in wavy loops.†
Book 1
- He did not say anything for a minute, but scratched his head and turned the snake over with his boot.†
Book 1
- 'I don't think he was out of his head for a minute, Mrs. Burden,' Fuchs declared.†
Book 1
- 'In a minute we come,' Antonia called back to her.†
Book 1
- He cut bands all right for a few minutes, and then, Mrs. Harling, he waved his hand to me and jumped head-first right into the threshing machine after the wheat.†
Book 2
- She won't hear the music, but she'll be down the minute anything's moved in the dining-room.'†
Book 2
- 'I wouldn't think of it for a minute!†
Book 2
- The conductor told her the Black Hawk train was due at Waymore twelve minutes after the Kansas City train left.†
Book 2
- I can put a new piece of lining-silk in there for you in ten minutes.'†
Book 3
- 'The colonel would marry you in a minute.†
Book 3
- I never had a minute to myself except when I was off with the cattle.'†
Book 3
- For five, perhaps ten minutes, the two luminaries confronted each other across the level land, resting on opposite edges of the world.†
Book 4
- Mother will be here in a minute.'†
Book 5 *
- And he's never out of mischief one minute!'†
Book 5
- There was hardly a minute between giggles and bland slumber.†
Book 5
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.