All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Brisingr
- Bending forward, he discerned the same collection of bumps, grooves, pits, veins, and other minute details with which he had adorned the original version of the plant; the only difference was they were now made of gold.
*minute = small
- Eragon had learned from Oromis that wherever one went, the land was sure to contain minute particles of nearly every element, and while they would be too small and scattered to mine with traditional methods, a knowledgeable magician could, with great effort, extract them.
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Some minutes later, the angry breeze subsided and Eragon again heard the priest: "....and such things as you long and lust for will be granted to you as a reward for your obedience...Our worship is complete.†
- When several minutes elapsed without incident, Eragon pushed his mind out over the surrounding landscape.†
- Eragon considered the suggestion for several minutes before saying, "I don't see how.†
- ASSAULT ONHELGRIND Daybreak was fifteen minutes away when Eragon rolled upright.†
- "Hold them off for a minute," he shouted, hoping Roran would hear.†
- After what seemed like an hour trapped in the darkness-though Eragon knew it could not have been more than ten or fifteen minutes-and after descending more than a hundred feet through Helgrind, Eragon stopped on a level patch of stone.†
- Give me a minute and I will.†
- Don't argue; you can't change my mind, and I won't take a minute.†
- As it turned out, Eragon required several minutes to restore Saphira to her former health.†
- Over a minute passed, and neither of them moved, although Eragon kept his muscles taut and ready in expectation of a surprise attack.†
- Ten minutes later, when he paused to check for pursuers, he saw a cloud of dirt swirling at the base of Helgrind, which he took to mean that the horsemen had arrived at the dark tower of stone.†
- Then he became aware of how late it was and swore at himself for wasting time; he needed every minute of rest he could get.†
- He withdrew a half minute later.†
- Even once he had the basic concept, it still took him another ten minutes to thrash out the rest of his plan and make sure that it would work in the manner he intended.†
- Eragon became increasingly anxious as first one minute and then another trickled past.†
- For a long minute, perhaps two, the only sound Nasuada heard was the harsh cry of gore-crows circling above the Varden's encampment.†
- Saphira flew as fast as any hawk or falcon Nasuada had seen, but she was still a number of miles away from the camp, and it took her almost ten minutes to traverse the remaining distance.†
- He wanted to talk with the serving woman, but she was so busy, five minutes passed before she looked at him and asked, "Your pleasure?"†
- That transfixed him for the better part of a minute, and then he stirred and leaned against the charred stump.†
- They looked at each other for a full minute, neither of them moving.†
- For a full minute, he held the crushing weight in the air.†
- A minute later, he arrived at the tent that had become his home and, ducking inside, stored away the bow, the quiver of arrows, and the short sword the Varden had given him.†
- Since he and Arya had keener eyesight than most humans, it was unlikely the horsemen could see them at that distance, so they continued to run for another ten minutes.†
- They lingered on the hillock for another minute, neither of them eager to resume their journey.†
- Within a minute, the knot inside his gut loosened, his frown eased, and the presence of his fallen enemies no longer seemed quite so tangible...The wolves howled again, and after an initial burst of trepidation, he listened without fear, for their baying had lost the power to unsettle him.†
- Arya permitted the contact between them to endure for almost a minute, a time not of heat or passion for Eragon, but rather of quiet companionship.†
- For several minutes, she admired the lily.†
- Orrin and Nasuada remained lost deep in reflection for several minutes, then Nasuada smoothed the front of her dress and said, "King Orrin may be of a different opinion, and if so, I look forward to hearing his reasons, but for my part, I believe that you did the right thing, Eragon."†
- Arya left a minute later, explaining that she needed to report to Queen Islanzadi and to, as she said, "heat a tub of water, wash the sand from my skin, and return my features to their usual shape.†
- The day is almost done, and here I am detaining you merely so I can enjoy a minute or two of idle conversation.†
- Afterward, Eragon rejoined Saphira outside of the archer's tent and stood with her for a few minutes, rubbing the muscles near the base of her neck.†
- As a result, a full five minutes passed before Eragon uttered the last sentence, word, and then syllable.†
- The bombastic trickle continued for over three minutes.†
- If we made ours as delicate as theirs, the swords wouldn't last more than a minute in a battle before bending, breaking, or chipping so badly, you couldn't cut soft cheese with them.†
- Drying his palms on the corner of his tent, he drew the falchion and practiced his swordsmanship for another thirty minutes.†
- Nasuada sat motionless for over a minute.†
- When Nasuada finished her lecture on the dwarf clans, she, Eragon, and Saphira spent several minutes figuring out how Eragon could slip out of the camp without being noticed.†
- For a handful of minutes, Eragon and Saphira sat in silence, then Eragon put his hand on the top of her head.†
- I just received my assignment a few minutes ago.†
- I can have six sides of roast beef brought over immediately, and another six will be ready in about fifteen minutes.†
- Hunger made it seem longer to Eragon, but it was not many more minutes before the stew was done, and he and Garzhvog ate, ravenous as wolves.†
- Eragon paused then, on the bank of a brook, and contemplated the sight in silent wonderment for several minutes.†
- After a minute, Carn uttered a number of words in the ancient language, and a few seconds later, the pain in Roran's leg subsided to a dull ache.†
- In the minutes since Roran had disposed of the last of the soldiers, the uninjured warriors had been going to each of the wagons in the convoy, cutting open their bundles of cargo, and reporting the contents to Martland, who recorded what they found so Nasuada could study the information and perhaps gather from it some indication of Galbatorix's plans.†
- The next few minutes were a spasm of flashing weapons, tearing flesh, and sudden pains for Roran.†
- A minute passed before it dawned on him that no one stood in the water before him.†
- I might be able to re attach it, but I'll need a few minutes.†
- Several minutes of brisk walking brought them to a broad staircase with shallow, dwarf-sized steps that climbed out of the ground to a passageway somewhere in the southwestern quadrant of Tronjheim's base.†
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)
(minutes as in: keep the minutes) a written record of what happened at a meeting
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(4)
(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.