All 38 Uses
minute
in
The Portrait of a Lady
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- It is an effect of detail, of the minutest; though, if one were in this connexion to say all, one would express the hope that the general, the ampler air of the modest monument still survives.
Chpt Pref.minutest = smallest
- She had played no social part as mistress of Gardencourt, and it was not to be supposed that, in the surrounding country, a minute account should be kept of her comings and goings.
Chpt 7 *minute = detailed
- He sat in a complicated mechanical chair, at the open window of his room, looking westward over the park and the river, with his newspapers and letters piled up beside him, his toilet freshly and minutely made, and his smooth, speculative face composed to benevolent expectation.
Chpt 13minutely = with careful attention to detail
- She has travelled over the whole American continent and can at least find her way about this minute island.
Chpt 13 *minute = small
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Isabel delayed for some minutes to go to him; she moved about the room with a new sense of complications.†
Chpt 4
- Her host's brother, the Vicar, had come to luncheon, and Isabel had had five minutes' talk with him—time enough to institute a search for a rich ecclesiasticism and give it up as vain.†
Chpt 9
- Isabel walked on again; she was silent for some minutes.†
Chpt 12
- Isabel listened with extreme respect to this admonition, but she said after a minute: "I must tell you that what I shall think about is some way of letting you know that what you ask is impossible—letting you know it without making you miserable."†
Chpt 12
- Pray go on, and in another ten minutes I shall begin to laugh.†
Chpt 15
- It was not for some ten minutes that she rose from her knees, and even when she came back to the sitting-room her tremor had not quite subsided.†
Chpt 17
- She might have desired for some minutes to place it.†
Chpt 25
- This fine specimen of that great class seated himself near our young lady, and in the course of five minutes he had asked her several questions, taken rather at random and to which, as he put some of them twice over, he apparently somewhat missed catching the answer; had given her too some information about himself which was not wasted upon her calmer feminine sense.†
Chpt 27
- I may add that when I came upon you a few minutes since, without the smallest idea of seeing you, I was, upon my honour, in the very act of wishing I knew where you were.†
Chpt 27
- It gave her time to do more to say at the end of a minute: "I can't tell you how I hoped you wouldn't come!"†
Chpt 32
- Five minutes after he had gone out she burst into tears.†
Chpt 32
- Five minutes later, while he handed a tea-cup to the damsel in pink, whom he had conducted into the other room, he wondered whether, in making to Mrs. Osmond the profession I have just quoted, he had broken the spirit of his promise to Madame Merle.†
Chpt 37
- Isabel got up, turning away from him, leaving her old lady without ceremony; and he occupied himself for the next ten minutes in pretending to look at Gilbert Osmond's collection of miniatures, which were neatly arranged on a series of small velvet screens.†
Chpt 37
- Madame Merle was there in her bonnet, and Gilbert Osmond was talking to her; for a minute they were unaware she had come in.†
Chpt 40
- Isabel had rendered her this service for some minutes when she became aware of the near presence of Edward Rosier.†
Chpt 43
- She was again led forth by a flushed young man, this time carrying her bouquet; and she had not been absent many minutes when Isabel saw Lord Warburton advancing through the crowd.†
Chpt 43
- She didn't do so, however; she only said to him, after a minute, with her own raised: "Please let me understand."†
Chpt 43
- The porter replied, as porters always reply, that he had gone out about twenty minutes before; whereupon Henrietta presented her card and begged it might be handed him on his return.†
Chpt 44
- Henrietta had never prevaricated in her life, and, though on this occasion there might have been a fitness in doing so, she decided, after thinking some minutes, to make no superficial exception.†
Chpt 44
- For a couple of minutes Osmond answered nothing; then he said: "That won't be easy, with you working against me."†
Chpt 46
- And it was perhaps a sign of submission that a few minutes after she had left him alone he burst into a loud fit of laughter.†
Chpt 48
- She replied that her stepdaughter was close at hand and that she could only give him five minutes; whereupon he took out his watch and sat down upon a broken block.†
Chpt 50
- It had become her habit to be so careful as to what she said to him that, strange as it may appear, she hesitated, for several minutes after he had come in, to allude to his daughter's sudden departure: she spoke of it only after they were seated at table.†
Chpt 50
- I received my aunt's telegram but three minutes ago.†
Chpt 51
- Ten minutes before she had felt all the joy of irreflective action—a joy to which she had so long been a stranger; but action had been suddenly changed to slow renunciation, transformed by the blight of Osmond's touch.†
Chpt 51
- I've been looking at you for the past five minutes.†
Chpt 51
- She stood a minute so, and then upon her arm she dropped her dizzy head, with closed eyes and pale lips.†
Chpt 51 *
- The portress returned at the end of some five minutes, ushering in another person.†
Chpt 52
- "You can leave us alone," she said to the portress; "in five minutes this lady will ring for you."†
Chpt 52
- I stayed twenty minutes with Pansy; she has a charming little room, not in the least conventual, with a piano and flowers.†
Chpt 52
- Isabel said nothing for a minute; her heart beat fast.†
Chpt 52
- Madame Catherine met Mrs. Osmond below and conducted her to the door of the parlour, outside of which the two stood talking a minute.†
Chpt 52
- For some minutes the two women sat and considered this remainder, and then Miss Stackpole, to change the subject, as Isabel had requested, announced abruptly: "I've been to stay with Lady Pensil!"†
Chpt 53
- At the end of a few minutes she found herself near a rustic bench, which, a moment after she had looked at it, struck her as an object recognised.†
Chpt 55
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 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.