That there had been a land-slip of some kind, I had little doubt; but the cause was beyond my knowledge; and yet, even then, I had half imaginings; for, already, the thought had come to me, of those falling rocks, and that Thing in the bottom of the Pit; but, in the first minutes of confusion, I failed to reach the natural conclusion, to which the catastrophe pointed.

We halted a few minutes in my petit salon at the end of the long suite of rooms.

Let bake in a quick oven; allow fifteen minutes to the pound.

We arrived a few minutes before eight, all the staff and directors already there, and by ten minutes after eight every one had arrived.

We arrived a few minutes before eight, all the staff and directors already there, and by ten minutes after eight every one had arrived.

St. Vallier, with all the staff of the embassy, met him at the station when he arrived in Berlin, also Holstein (our old friend who was at the German Embassy in Paris with Arnim) to compliment him from Prince Bismarck, and he had hardly been fifteen minutes at the embassy when Count Herbert von Bismarck arrived with greetings and compliments from his father.

Your oroide is now wound up, Mr. DROOD, and set at twenty minutes past Two.

" "Henry, I implore you to keep coolto give me five minutes for talk" "No, not one.

Let cook ten minutes with 1/2 glass of sherry wine.

All the long high-walled fiords into which these great glaciers of the first class flow are of course crowded with icebergs of every conceivable form, which are detached with thundering noise at intervals of a few minutes from an imposing ice-wall that is thrust forward into deep water.

But he was too late; the powder-horn was safe, and I notified him, as Squire Smith did the cats, to leave them parts in just one minute by the clock.

" Captain Parkinson appeared on deck and turned his glasses for a full minute on the strange schooner.

HALF PAST TWO.He indicated his dissatisfaction with the policy of the Government, to the President at Long Branch, thus: Having transferred all the jewels from his left hand to the right, and carefully adjusted them there, he raised the hand in question to his finely cut Roman nose, then, extending his fingers, he twirled them for several minutes without exhibiting any symptoms of fatigue.

The referee briefly made the usual announcement about it being a fight to the finish, with two-minute rounds and two minutes between rounds.

Rub the bottom of a stewpan over with butter, and put in the shalots, herbs, bay-leaves, carrots, mace, and seasoning; stir them for 10 minutes over a clear fire, and add the Madeira or sherry; simmer gently for 1/2 hour, and strain through a sieve over the fish, which stew in this gravy.

"I never allow myself to be a minute behind time.

When the sun got hot he stopped for breakfast and afterwards he and Brown smoked for a few minutes under the awning.

" Again silence held for a long minute during which no man stirred or spoke.

Three minutes per hour per fire seems to be the average, and the labor is of a very light kind, consisting of clearing the passages between the tiles, and occasionally pushing back the coke on to the fire bars.

She has eyes bluer one minute than the grotto at Capri, greener the next than grass in June, grayer the next than a November day, and so on in turn through all the prismatic colors.

He was very friendly and talked for twenty minutes about all sorts of things, in excellent French, with a few words of English now and then to show he knew of my English connection.

She let herself go on looking for a breathless minute into her brother's face.

"The beggar puts one shot every five minutes through the same window.

I can't give you a minute until the last, for you know I've almost to open the third and fourth acts.

But I do not think she was ever many minutes out of my mind.