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Every now and then, as though he perceived some minute thing, a sudden alert, tantalized look would creep over the little man's face, and he would gaze slowly around him, quite slyly.
Story 1.4 *

minute = small
He was gazing into the water cooler, in which minute air bubbles swam.
Story 1.12
He stared away as if he saw it minutely, as if he could see a lady in white take a flowered cover off the organ, which was set on a little slant in the shade, dust the keys, and start to pump and play.
Story 2.19 *

minutely = in a detailed manner
The sand was coarse like beads and full of minute shells, some shaped exactly like bugles.
Story 3.29

minute = small
Now and then the crashing reach of water came to the European points of the other man's shoes, advancing at the last instant with pure little tongues, that minutely kissed and withdrew.
Story 3.31

minutely = in a small way
She felt the sand, grains intricate as little cogged wheels, minute shells of old seas, and the many dark ribbons of grass and mud touch her and leave her, like suggestions and withdrawals of some bondage that might have been dear, now dismembering and losing itself.
Story 3.32

minute = small

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In a minute she gave a suck on the zinnia stem that sounded exactly like a jay bird.†
Story 1.1
Usually the train stopped for only a minute in Victory, but the engineer knew Lily from waving at her, and he knew this was her big day.†
Story 1.1
I can get him here in five minutes: I know exactly where he is.†
Story 1.1
Remember you cooked me fourteen minutes.†
Story 1.3
You had fourteen minutes comin' to you," said Leota with finality.†
Story 1.3
This won't take but a minute," said Leota.†
Story 1.3
So Mrs. Pike, she give you a good look-she's very observant, a good judge of character, cute as a minute, you know-and she says, 'I bet you another Jax that lady's three months on the way.'†
Story 1.3
But she can't sit still a minute.†
Story 1.3
Why, Mrs. Fletcher, in an hour an' twenty minutes she was layin' up there in the Babtist Hospital with a seb'm-pound son.†
Story 1.3
And in the meantime I got to keep that mean, bad little ole kid here, gettin' under my feet ever' minute of the day an' talkin' back too.†
Story 1.3
He walked painfully over and stood in the shade for a few minutes, leaning his head on a sycamore tree.†
Story 1.5
It wasn't five minutes before Uncle Rondo suddenly appeared in the hall in one of Stella-Rondo's flesh-colored kimonos, all cut on the bias, like something Mr. Whitaker probably thought was gorgeous.†
Story 1.6
Do you realize," I says, "that she hasn't spoken one single, solitary word to a human being up to this minute?†
Story 1.6
And in a minute the loudest Yankee voice I ever heard in my life yells out, "OE'm Pop-OE the Sailor-r-r-r Ma-a-an!" and then somebody jumps up and down in the upstairs hall.†
Story 1.6
And I'll tell you it didn't take me any longer than a minute to make up my mind what to do.†
Story 1.6
Well, Sister, I'll be glad to donate my army cot if you got any place to set it up, providing you'll leave right this minute and let me get some peace.†
Story 1.6
And if Stella-Rondo should come to me this minute, on bended knees, and attempt to explain the incidents of her life with Mr. Whitaker, I'd simply put my fingers in both my ears and refuse to listen.†
Story 1.6
Wait a minute-Mike's sick.†
Story 1.8
"Name Sanford," he said, standing still, with his foot out, as if he were trying to recall something particular and minute.†
Story 1.8
We had never exchanged a word or even a nod of recognition; but it was possible during that entire year for me to think endlessly on this minute and brief encounter which we endured on the stairs, until it would swell with a sudden and overwhelming beauty, like a rose forced into premature bloom for a great occasion.†
Story 1.9
Suppose old Mr. Marblehall simply remains alive, getting older by the minute, shuttling, still secretly, back and forth?†
Story 1.11
Her hair began to blow from the back of her head and after a few minutes it was all turned the other way.†
Story 1.12
"I can't stay but a minute-really, I can't," said Marian suddenly.†
Story 1.14
"Sonny, this man, he had his car to run off over the prec'pice an' wants to know if you will git it out for him," the woman said after a few minutes.†
Story 1.15
In a few minutes Sonny passed under the window with a rope, and there was a brown mule with quivering, shining, purple-looking ears.†
Story 1.15
In a few minutes Sonny pulled up a jug.†
Story 1.15
Then she stood for a minute looking at them, tall and full above them where they sat.†
Story 1.15
And his mouth is going every minute: like a monkey's when it looks for something.†
Story 1.16
He sat down and played it for a few minutes with outrageous force and got it under his power-a bass deep and coarse as a sea net— then produced something glimmering and fragile, and smiled.†
Story 1.16
Right this minute?†
Story 2.19
"Don't let her get too heavy, boys," Doc intoned regularly, every few minutes, "and she won't let nothing through."†
Story 2.19
And after a few minutes she took him by the hand and led him into the house, smiling as if she were smiling down on him.†
Story 2.19
"Good-bye," she said, making herself look grand from the back, but at the last minute she turned around in the door.†
Story 2.24
Could you believe I could carry everything out of my store in twenty minutes but my safe?†
Story 2.25
Look back at me every time I look at you and never feel pity, for what my heart holds this minute is better than what you offer the least bit less.†
Story 2.25
So-he'd been educated in the law and he traveled for somebody, that was the first thing he did-I'll tell you in a minute what he sold, and she stayed home and cooked and kept house.†
Story 3.26
Only that day, he said he didn't see a soul else-besides you'll hear who in a minute-on the way, not on porches or in the yards.†
Story 3.26
Plez said King stood it a minute-he got to turning around too.†
Story 3.26
The minute come, when King just couldn't get out quick enough.†
Story 3.26
And Snowdie dropped her scissors on the mahogany, and her hand just stayed in the air as still, and she looked at me, a look a minute long.†
Story 3.26
I heard Snowdie call, and there was Plez, just ambling by with his hat raised, like he was just that minute passing, like we thought.†
Story 3.26
If she went out of sight for a minute, he watched at the little stair window, but she did not go up.†
Story 3.27 *
Louella stood there a minute and then tiptoed off.†
Story 3.27
Cassie was uneasy, for her mother's way was to speak too late for Miss Perdita's list and plan to run the dress up herself at the last minute; but Cassie had to encourage Miss Eckhart.†
Story 3.27

Definitions:

(1) (minute as in: minute size)
small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
(2) (minute as in: minute description)
detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
(3) (minutes as in: keep the minutes)
a written record of what happened at a meeting
(4) (meaning too common or too 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.

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