"Minute" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the summits of mountains rising above the surface of the sea,—visiting the light-house, the monument to Captain John Smith, Betty Moody's Cave, the graves of the Spanish sailors, the trap dikes of ancient lava, and much else. Every day Hawthorne wrote a minute account in his diary of his various proceedings there, including the observation of a live shark, which came into the cove by the hotel, a rare spectacle on that coast. General Pierce did not make his appearance, ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns
... silent for a minute or two before she answered this, but then she did answer it. "I think I do," said she. "I think I ...
— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope
... W-wait a minute!" he stammered. "Whut dis? B'lieve I done foun' it! I sho is! Heah she am! Heah's dis nigger-stopper, jes lak I tol' you!" Tump marked a sentence in the guaranty of the deed with a rusty forefinger and looked up at Peter in mixed triumph ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... "Don't ask me to be sorry, Mr. Queed, because I don't think I can. You see, I haven't taken up a minute of your time for nearly a month, so I was entitled to some of ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... first as if a transformer would always give a gain. If we mean a gain in energy it will not although we may use it, as we shall see in a minute, to permit a vacuum tube to work into an output circuit more efficiently than it could without the transformer. We cannot have any more energy in the secondary circuit of a transformer than we give ...
— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills
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