Wynford Place was a bare mile away, perhaps twenty minutes' walk; the night was fine and moonlight, he was getting horribly bored in that room; he would stroll out and have a look at the outside of the old place.

We had a few minutes' talk about the increasing distress of the town; and he gave me a short account of the workroom which has been opened in Knowsley Street, for the employment of female factory operatives out of work.

Well, time's getting short, only two more days at sea, and I couldn't wait any longer for a chance to have a few minutes' chin with you.

But now there was a few minutes' delay, for the referee had lingered behind, and so he looked quietly about him.

I heard you were alone, so I just dropped in for a few minutes' gossip.

Deane, after a few minutes' hesitation, went to the telephone and called up Vine at his club.

Two minutes' delay, and his coils would have been round her; and all would have been over.

"If five minutes' digging wad save Tarnside Hall, I'd sooner lose my hay than stir a hand!"

Three-quarters of an hour to get to Bragfordfive minutes' stoppage at the turn-pike, for that stupid man is sure to have gone to bedfive minutes more for Doctor Skilton to put on his greatcoat, forty minutes for coming backthose ponies always go faster towards home.

For a few minutes she felt disposed to turn back with only a five minutes' civil talk.

There had of course been several checks; but so strong had been the scent of this hart that, in spite of two "lets" of some twenty minutes' duration, the pack had been able to hunt their quarry to the bitter end.

But those who are fond of lamenting the modern spirit of the age, which prefers the forty minutes' burst over a severe country to a three hours' hunting run, are apt to lose sight of the fact that in these piping times of peace, without the risks of sport mankind is liable to degenerate towards effeminacy.

" Forrard on, then forrard onwards, o'er the pasture, o'er the lea, Tossed about by ridge and furrow, rolling like a ship at sea; Stake and binder, timber, oxers, all are taken in our stride, Better fifty minutes' racing than a dawdling five hours' ride.

Yes, humble as you see me, with only my 100 francs a month of half-pay between me and hunger, it is none the less true that I was always in the Emperor's mind, and that he would have given his left hand for five minutes' talk with me.

The effect of the poison might be of only a few minutes' duration, and every motion might count.

Sinclair read the despatches with an unmoved countenance, and after a few minutes' reflection simply said: "All right.

Fifteen minutes' walk brought him to the now busy waterside.

To this end he set out with me for my grandfather's house, and after a few minutes' pause he was admitted.

"Will you have the decency," she said, "to grant me five minutes' conversationor wasn't that included in your plans?" He nodded, his mouth unable to form words.

It isn't more than a ten minutes' drive to the theatre.

After a few minutes' talk and a jest or two the clerk rushes upstairs again.

If a member of Parliament wished to see what trench life was like he was brought here, because it was one of the safest places for a few minutes' look at the sandbags which Mr. Atkins stared at week in and week out.

" "If I had my way," said Dolly, after ten minutes' silence, "I would punish him.

For in less than twenty minutes' time they were all over, much to the surprise of the boss and his men; besides, their weapons were quite dry; just the splash had wet them.

After a few minutes' silence she was somewhat startled to hear a gentle voice inquire: "Sister Kate, will thee go to the counter and have a milk punch on me?"Carolina Lockhart.