Then you pouted and finally worked yourself into quite a temper over his inconsiderateness and crankiness because of that paltry little fifteen minutes he had to wait.

Grease spattered the earth; the floor of the buffet room was ankle deep, literally, in discarded bandages and blood-stiffened cotton; and the nurses and the doctors and the helpers dropped down in the midst of it all to snatch a few precious minutes of rest before the next creaking caravan of misery arrived.

Sprinkle a little grated Parmesan cheese and celery, salt on the top, and bake in hot oven 10 minutes.

You see, it saves time, and work-time up here is so short, on account of winter setting in so early, that we have to save up our spare minutes and not waste 'em on long words.

It was as though one brief minute of a glorious youth had come back to her.

He was anxious for the fatal minute to arrive, and be over.

The Seraing No. 2 had an engine of a nominal power of 40 horses, and took on an average 30 minutes to make the trip, backward and forward, of 85 kilometers, with four stoppages.

"I did it in odd minutes," she answered, "when I had nothing else to do.

Perhaps he ought to go on, but he meant to take the extra few minutes luck had given him.

I say ten awful minutes?

Beat light with a silver fork, turn into a pudding dish, and brown in a moderate oven ten or fifteen minutes.

It has on several occasions engaged the attention of our profoundest thinkers for not less than two consecutive minutes.

There must be approximate limits as to the times of arrival and departure, but nothing of the nature of marking registers to record exact minutes.

Vévey, their journey, the fleeting minutes, and their disappointment, were all forgotten in the delight of witnessing this evening landscape, and the silence was broken only to express those feelings of delight which had long been uppermost in every bosom.

For a tense half minute Broken Tooth and Kazan measured each other at that distance.

An official minute was given to him, recording his appointment, as well as certain details with which he asked to be supplied.

Yet even on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings; New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns, Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear.

As the slow minutes passed the frenzied mood Faded away from her like fevered dream; With hands clasped in a passion of devout, Complete surrender, falling at his feet She whispered, brokenly, between her sobs; "Sanpeur, I will go back to Torm,for you, Go back and live my life as best I may, If he forgive me;and if not, receive The condemnation of my fault as meet.

I concluded that, if the soup were punctual, and not too hot, I could leave myself ten or perhaps fifteen unoccupied minutes before one o'clock.

If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers.

I need not speak of the painful minutes that followed, during which Eveena strove to suppress for my sake at once her tears for her loss and her renewed and intensified terror on my own account.

Apparently we were both observed and sought after, and as the range of these main highways, up and down which troops and munitions pass, is perfectly known, there was a rather uncomfortable few minutes ere we had whirled through La Bassée, with the women watching from their doorsno racing motors for them to run away in!and down the tree-arched road to ordinary life again.

Then may come a "tin" minute paper and pencil contest to see who can write the most words beginning or ending with TIN in the allotted ten minutes.

Imagine it, you men who were not there, you men of the New Armies still training at home, you riflemen practicing and striving to work up the number of aimed rounds fired in "the mad minute," you machine-gunners riddling holes in a target or a row of posts.

I must have waited quite a long time, though the golden minutes sped unreckoned, for when my two colleagues arrived they tendered needless apologies.