'Not twenty, by the minute hand!

Your hours, your days, would fly too fast; You'd then regret the minute past, Time's fugitive and light as wind!

Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753): Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher.

Pour boiling water on the tomatoes, allow to stand for 1 minute, after which the skins may be easily removed.

Every half minute, an alternate yelp from my ferocious followers, told me too certain that they were in close pursuit.

A minute afterward Sneak emerged from the thicket, bearing Mary in his arms, and followed by Glenn.

It ought at the same time to be observed that, under the above estimate, that is, supposing the price of the article to remain at fifteen reals, the 8 1/2% at which rate the tax is regulated, would not perhaps exceed five or six per cent on a more minute calculation; in the first place, because at the time of making out the returns of the trees, [Exception of immature and aged trees.

A gentleman, this minute, Sir, desires to speak with your honour[My lady, Sir!Aside.]

D. SERRATIFOLIA (syn Colletia serratifolia), is even a handsomer plant than the former, with minute serrated foliage, and sheets of small white flowers in June.

The leaves are irregularly pinnate, and the minute flowers, which are borne in large, branching spikes, are of a peculiar dark purple colour.

Dan c'n only die once, but every minute is a death to her!" CHAPTER XXXVII DEATH Before noon of the next day Buck joined the crowd which had been growing for hours around Tully's saloon.

The minute hand crept on towards three o'clock.

He told me that but one minute had rolled by.

I watched on till I was told that but one minute remained; and, within sixteen seconds of the time, I had the almost bewildering gratification of seeing the planet break the contact, and slowly move on till it buried itself round and deep and sharp in the sun.

The natural rate of breathing is 12 to 15 times per minute.

Minute . . . . . . . . .

PROFESSOR MINTO Nature, that makes Professors all day long, And, filling idle souls with idle song, Turns out small Poets every other minute, Made earth for menbut seldom puts men in it.

The inhabitant of the puce dressing-gown had a short greying beard and moustache; his plenteous hair was passing from pepper into salt; there were many minute wrinkles in the hollows between his eyes and the fresh crimson of his cheeks; and the eyes were sad; they were very sad.

For all you know, a pirate may claim your attention any minute of the day.

The fog lifted after a minute, but it left him queerly remote from her, from the cool room with its scents and shadows, and from all the objects which, a moment before, had so sharply impinged upon his senses.

There had been a hard minute to live through when he came back to his old brown room in Washington Square.

Wellington thought he had seen her before, but his mind had received so many new impressions lately that it was a minute or two before he recognized in her the lady whose lap he had involuntarily occupied for a moment on his first day in Groveland.

dat do' dis minute an' walk in, I 'm feared I 'd be foolish ernuff an' weak ernuff to forgive 'im an' take 'im back ag'in.

"My beloved," said he, with a strange mixture of tenderness and dogged resolution, "I bless thee for giving me one more sight of thy sweet face, and may God forgive thee, and bless thee, for destroying in a minute the holy place it hath taken six months of solitude to build.

He stood silent a minute or two, looking upon me as if he said, "Foolish girl!