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Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot

Poirot examined them minutely, making a few comments to us as he did so.
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *

minutely = with careful attention to detail

His absorption was not so great, however, that he failed to see two minute strands of feather scarf wrenched off by the lady's agitated fingers.
Chpt 3 (definition 2)

minute = small

The minute puncture it would cause was likely to remain unnoticed.
Chpt 7 (definition 2) *

minute = very small

When off duty, Japp was an ardent botanist, and discoursed upon minute flowers possessed of unbelievably lengthy Latin names (somewhat strangely pronounced) with an enthusiasm even greater than that he gave to his cases.
Chpt 10 (definition 2)

minute = small

Seizing my opportunity, I too knelt down, and taking the handkerchief from the sleeve, scrutinized it minutely.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)

minutely = with careful attention to detail

I made a further minute search, noted that it was now a quarter past four and that therefore it would soon be growing light, and then went back to the kitchen regions.
Chpt 11 (definition 1)

minute = careful

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The minutes passed, but Lord Cronshaw did not appear.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)

Only about ten minutes elapsed between his speaking to Cronshaw and the finding of the body.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)

Always I have a desire to keep the threads in my own hands up to the last minute.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)

Surely a doctor could not fail to perceive the difference between a man who had been dead two hours and one who had been dead ten minutes!†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)

On the contrary, he was informed that the man had been seen alive ten minutes ago, and so he merely commented at the inquest on the abnormal stiffening of the limbs for which he was quite unable to account!†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)

For a minute, I was suspicious, and he must have seen it, for he smiled.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3)

He thought for a minute or two.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3)

You can leave an employer any minute by forfeiting a month's wages.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3)

A favourable minute occurs.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)

"The child was here not a minute ago," he cried.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)

With one common accord we ran to the council chamber; the clock there marked the hour as ten minutes past.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)

The man who gave them to him handed him a ten-shilling note and promised him another if it were delivered at exactly ten minutes to twelve.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)

Poirot reflected for a minute.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)

Poirot detained Mrs Waverly for a minute behind her husband.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)

Point number three, the putting on of the clock ten minutes-all inside jobs.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)

Look here-oh, stop a minute.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)

In a few minutes we were ushered up into the lady's suite.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)

We jumped at the suggestion, and in a few minutes the doctor, a cheery, middle-aged man, joined us, and gave Poirot all the information he required.†
Chpt 5 (definition 3)

If you will wait in the drawing-room a minute, Mamma would like to speak to you.†
Chpt 5 (definition 3)

It will do if I can see Mrs Oglander for a few minutes.†
Chpt 5 (definition 3)

In a few minutes Mrs Oglander came into the room, looking inquiringly at Poirot, who bowed.†
Chpt 5 (definition 3)

You understand, to have played bridge for an hour or so, with only fifty-one cards-well, no one who knows anything of the game would credit it for a minute!†
Chpt 5 (definition 3)

In a few minutes our two friends had hurriedly taken leave of us.†
Chpt 6 (definition 3)

Hardly ten minutes had elapsed before the door opened softly, and someone entered the room.†
Chpt 6 (definition 3)

With the right hand it brought forth a syringe; with the left it touched the boy's neckPoirot and I sprang at the same minute.†
Chpt 6 (definition 3)

' "We'd better get out of here," said Pearson, after a few minutes had elapsed.†
Chpt 6 (definition 3)

A few minutes sufficed to whirl us to the superb house in Park Lane rented by the American magnate.†
Chpt 7 (definition 3)

He hesitated for a minute, and then went on: 'I may as well tell you, Monsieur Poirot, that I regard my son-in-law as an unprincipled scoundrel, and that, by my advice, my daughter was on the eve of freeing herself from him by legal means-no difficult matter.†
Chpt 7 (definition 3)

A few minutes later Jane Mason entered the room, a respectable, hard-featured woman, as emotionless in the face of tragedy as only a good servant can be.†
Chpt 7 (definition 3)

My compartment was very crowded, and it was some minutes before I could get out-and then there was a very large crowd on the platform, and that delayed me too.†
Chpt 7 (definition 3)

But he'd only have had a minute or two to speak to the mistress, that way.†
Chpt 7 (definition 3)

In a few minutes the lock gave, and he raised the lid of the trunk.†
Chpt 7 (definition 3)

He departed, and returned in a few minutes with a dust-covered object.†
Chpt 7 (definition 3)

A few minutes later she returned with the address written on a sheet of paper.†
Chpt 7 (definition 3)

She paused, closing her eyes a minute then opened them again.†
Chpt 7 (definition 3)

"Just wait a minute," I said, going to the desk.†
Chpt 8 (definition 3)

But I put them there not a minute ago!†
Chpt 8 (definition 3)

We turned over the papers on the desk; we hunted through the safe; but at last we had to make up our minds to it that the papers were gone-and gone within the short space of about three minutes while Fitzroy was absent from the room.†
Chpt 8 (definition 3)

Poirot continued to play the torch for some minutes longer, walking the entire length of the terrace and back.†
Chpt 8 (definition 3)

Fitzroy was only out of the room a few minutes, the time it would take us to walk to the end and back.†
Chpt 8 (definition 3)

Lord Alloway considered for a minute.†
Chpt 8 (definition 3)

'Say-ten minutes,' she whispered.†
Chpt 8 (definition 3)

The car came round to the door in a few minutes, and Lord Alloway bade us farewell on the steps with renewed cordiality.†
Chpt 8 (definition 3)

Probably about two minutes and a half!†
Chpt 8 (definition 3)

Definitions:

(1) (minute as in: minute description)
detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)

(2) (minute as in: minute size)
small, exceptionally small, or insignificant

(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.