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"There was this much in it," said Angelo: "what was told us of our characters was minutely exact—we could have not have bettered it ourselves."
Chpt 11

minutely = in a detailed manner
He proceeded cautiously and with hesitation now, moving his finger slowly along the great lines of the palm, and now and then halting it at a "star" or some such landmark, and examining that neighborhood minutely.
Chpt 11

minutely = carefully
The finding of the knife was verified, the advertisement minutely describing it and offering a reward for it was put in evidence, and its exact correspondence with that description proved.
Chpt 20
Every man in the room had his hand up to the light now, and his head canted to one side, and was minutely scrutinizing the balls of his fingers; there were whispered ejaculations of 'Why, it's so—I never noticed that before!'
Chpt 21
Again the jury made minute examinations, and again reported: "We find them to be exactly identical, your honor."
Chpt 21 *

minute = careful and detailed
The foreman answered: "TO THE MINUTEST DETAIL!"
Chpt 21 *

minutest = smallest

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And now he added these words of awful import: "I give you one minute."†
Chpt 2
When I takes de chillen out to git de air, de minute I's roun' de corner I's gwine to gaum dey mouths all roun' wid jam, den dey can't nobody notice dey's changed.†
Chpt 3
After a matter of twenty minutes she disappeared and although he stayed at his post half an hour longer, she came no more.†
Chpt 7 *
She said, with a grim implacability in voice and manner which made Tom almost realize that even a former slave can remember for ten minutes insults and injuries returned for compliments and flatteries received, and can also enjoy taking revenge for them when the opportunity offers: "What does I know?†
Chpt 8
I's gwine to tell yo' uncle—en I'll do it dis minute, too—he'll gimme FIVE dollahs for de news, en mighty glad, too.†
Chpt 8
—en you's a nigger en a slave dis minute; en if I opens my mouf ole Marse Driscoll'll sell you down de river befo' you is two days older den what you is now!†
Chpt 9
In two minutes they had their red shirts and helmets on—they never stirred officially in unofficial costume—and as the mass meeting overhead smashed through the long row of windows and poured out upon the roof of the arcade, the deliverers were ready for them with a powerful stream of water, which washed some of them off the roof and nearly drowned the rest.†
Chpt 11
At the finish the judge was silent a minute, turning over in his mind the shameful picture of Tom's flight over the footlights; then he said, as if musing aloud, "H'm—I don't understand it.†
Chpt 12
"The Count shall have it in his hands in fifteen minutes," said Howard.†
Chpt 12
The minute I've cleared it off, I'm safe; and I'll never touch a card again.†
Chpt 12
In another minute the will was in Tom's hands.†
Chpt 14
Oh dear, dear, he will live to find me out and sell me to some nigger trader yet—yes, and he would do it in a minute.†
Chpt 14
I 'uz at de river in two minutes.†
Chpt 18
He would tear the will to shreds in a minute—don't you know that?†
Chpt 18
In a few minutes he was in the haunted house.†
Chpt 19
Wilson said that he had three witnesses, the Misses Clarkson, who would testify that they met a veiled young woman leaving Judge Driscoll's premises by the back gate a few minutes after the cries for help were heard, and that their evidence, taken with certain circumstantial evidence which he would call the court's attention to, would in his opinion convince the court that there was still one person concerned in this crime who had not yet been found, and also that a stay of proceedings ought to be granted, in justice to his clients, until that person should be discovered.†
Chpt 20
He did not compare the new finger marks unintentionally left by Tom a few minutes before on Roxy's glass with the tracings of the marks left on the knife handle, there being no need for that (for his trained eye), but busied himself with another matter, muttering from time to time, "Idiot that I was!†
Chpt 20
He was in his place twelve minutes later with his "records."†
Chpt 21
I shall prove to the satisfaction of the jury that there WAS a person in Judge Driscoll's room several minutes before the accused entered it.†
Chpt 21
If it shall seem necessary, I will prove by the Misses Clarkson that they met a veiled person—ostensibly a woman—coming out of the back gate a few minutes after the cry for help was heard.†
Chpt 21
Each and every one is labeled with name and date; not labeled the next day or even the next hour, but in the very minute that the impression was taken.†
Chpt 21
Tom was altering his position every few minutes now, but none of his changes brought repose nor any small trifle of comfort.†
Chpt 21

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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