Within this cradle shall this minute's babe Be laid to rest; and thus I'll hug my joy.

You know the new tunnel couldn't hold the reserve supply of liquids that can report for duty at a minute's notice on the corner of Forty-second and Broadway.

The two masters, holding with one hand to some permanent object by which to steady themselves, and each pressing his tarpaulin firmly down on his head with the other, had a minute's conversation when the schooners were nearest together.

The new bridge is within a minute's walk of the monument; and we went thither, and leaned over its parapet to admire the beautiful Doon, flowing wildly and sweetly between its deep and wooded banks.

" "The best thing," Jack said after a minute's consideration, "would be to make a sort of tent of it.

There were to be three rounds of three minutes each, with one minute's intermission between rounds.

"When father comes back," cried the girl, bursting into tears again after a minute's silence, "how will he ever find me if I go away!"

One timid look around,one minute's pause of hesitation,he had closed it behind him.

These minute men were volunteers pledged to be ready for service at a minute's notice, and lest 12,000 should not be enough, the neighboring colonies were asked to raise the number to 20,000.

It did not take more than a minute's violent shaking after he got down to bring the rope tumbling on our heads.

My life is not worth a minute's purchase if Noureddin Ali finds mehe or that other whom they let go.

After a minute's monologue they rang off in disgust.

You may get a telegram before this reaches you; if you do not you had better pack your valise and have it ready for you to come at a minute's warning.

"Why, why was I left, old and rheumatic and useless, and Mary, a smart, busy, capable woman taken away without a minute's warning?" was her continual cry.

A minute's hesitation, then, with all the speed she could make, she set off up the avenue towards the Hall.

The dream was true on its face, a belated perception awakened by bitterness of soul, and Madame, as she sat dumbly marvelling at its tardiness, chafed the more against each minute's present delay, seeing that now to know if Kincaid, or if Anna, held the treasure was her liveliest hankering.

"I had, upon the first alarm, ordered all the stores in my charge to be packed up, ready for removal at a minute's warning.

It was always tentative before, but he knew that when it did come he would have to go at a minute's notice.

The Old Man in that naked wilderness: Close by a Pond, upon the further side, [i] He stood alone: a minute's space I guess I watch'd him, he continuing motionless: To the Pool's further margin then I drew; He being all the while before me full in view.

I am like a mouse in the claws of a cat; my life is not worth a minute's purchase.

In this minute's quiet he unconsciously studied the tracks in the ground.

It took us all the afternoon to clean up a minute's work in the morning.

The boys, after a minute's examination, answer, "Yes, sir;" "Yes, sir.

Engrossed in his own solemn feelings, in the wish to prepare his cousin for the truth, Herbert perceived not her agitation, and, after a minute's pause, continued tenderly "My own cousin, death to you is, I know, not terrible; why then should I hesitate to impart tidings which to me are full of bliss?

"Don't you?" "Yes." There was a minute's dark silence.