I take my time moving to the shallow end in the hope that they’ll leave, but after a few minutes of stalling, they haven’t budged. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In case they could still have a few minutes alone. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sitting there for more than two minutes before he started laughing. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby waited a few minutes until she was sure they were really gone and until her eyes adjusted so she could see the bars of her cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Be back here in thirty minutes for dinner!” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The ice would cut into her palms any minute now, and she would die leaving bloody handprints in the snow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a mes-senger hurried onto the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker’s hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

After a minute or two, Viju pulled away from the scuffle. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Demure and reserved, the forty-seven-year-old Namba was forty minutes away from becoming the oldest woman to climb Everest and the second Japanese woman to reach the highest point on each continent, the so-called Seven Summits. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the door he turned and yelled he’d get the check in a minute. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A frill minute of static passes before I hear Thomas answer me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But the minute I'd shut the door behind me and undressed and dragged myself on to the bed, I felt worse than ever. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

You know him better than 1 do—I only see him once a day for fifty minutes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later I called everyone to the table. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The Shield forces have been summoned. We only need to hold off the enemy for a few more minutes.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, I want the United Nations to come right away, and fix it up so everything’s fair, this minute!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes ten minutes just to find him hiding under my bed. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Please just sit down for a minute,” I said to her, walking over and putting an arm around her shoulder. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I held my breath with hope for the entire long, long minute. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

For many long minutes, he said nothing, his eyes downcast, as though absorbing the story. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The minute he got to a new place, he had his “exploring look,” and there was no use asking where he was going or whether you could go along. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He said at the last minute the cute one with the braids decided on ten cents’ worth of Chiclets, cinnamon, yellow, green. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie thought a minute before answering, “Well, let’s say a prayer in that little room of the Middle Ages. The part with the pretty stained glass window.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon, the two teenagers’ journeys overlapped for a mere eight minutes. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A clean-shaven Pinkus glanced at his; but when he saw that Ralph noticed, said, “So you’re a few minutes late, forget it. What are we, railroad trains, we have to run on time?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The alarm will go off in seven minutes. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, a lone man walked up the road to the farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shut my eyes, trying to get one more minute of sleep, but Roberto, my older brother, jumped out of bed and pulled off the covers. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Ten minutes? I was riding home on the bus....” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, the map was spread out over the steering wheel, and Chubs was gloating in the backseat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m not supposed to leave. We have another performance in forty-five minutes.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It takes me a minute to recognize her. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“The guy with the beat-up Bruins jacket—he left a couple minutes ago.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Bawled like a little kid for several minutes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the first printing of ten thousand copies of the newspaper sold out. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later she returned, opened the door, and shook her head sadly. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When that happened he’d sit for a minute in the dirt, his hands over his eyes, then he’d stand and reach for the next length. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"I want that gap down to four minutes," Teddy said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything for a minute, or her, either. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"Roger, Flight. . . message sent. Minimum reply time three minutes, four seconds." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Make it two dollars for each minute I stay in there, and you're on," Turtle said. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faro set up a barking inside, and a minute later Mr. Loomis appeared. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The coin of land was now at a forty-five-degree angle, and within minutes of completely sealing the hole in the earth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Not even ten minutes brushing my teeth had been enough to scrub the sticky film from my mouth, and if I took any more aspirin, I’d probably start leaking blood from every orifice. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then, eager to catch Fischer, who was by now more than thirty minutes ahead of him, the Sherpa continued down the ridge, leaving Hansen and Hall at the top of the Hillary Step. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She has soured her niece’s welcome, scolding her the minute she gets out of her car. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stared at each other for almost a whole minute, before Harry said, “This is a joke, right? You’re joking.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

If I waited until then to slip away, we’d have less than thirty minutes to run the dinghy back to Rado’s dock, grab our bikes, and race home. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“And how many seconds is five minutes?” she asked. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, he canceled another news conference at the last minute—or rather, I canceled it for him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was more tuned in to the audience than to the speaker, and if for the last five minutes of her talk anyone was breathing, I could not detect it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I left his room, closing the door behind me, and paused for a minute in the dark, on the landing. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s no time. He’s going to be here any minute. You need to give it to me.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t worry about the next day or minute. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

True to her heritage, the head librarian talked a mile a minute. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

One minute she was clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s yelling, “I don’t care, Plutarch! Just give me five more minutes!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The boulevard was as clean as the surface of an arena two minutes before the appearance of certain unnamed victims and certain unknown killers. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though in truth, he’d have given anything for five more minutes of the device’s glow right then. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe it was the same boy who had been kicking and screaming only a minute ago. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watches his father raise a kite within minutes into the wind, so high that Gogol must tip his head back in order to see a rippling speck against the sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I map out a route in my head that will save me a few minutes. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Robert appeared with cheese and biscuits, and a few minutes later Frith came with the coffee and cigarettes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the cast start to lose its heat, and after a few more minutes Hank checks it, then unclamps the straps and says, “Ready?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, we turn into a neighborhood where some kids who definitely look like eighth graders get on and go straight to the back of the bus. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They’ll let me stay till my sixteenth birthday, not a minute longer. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t go out to look for other jobs any more, but every minute he had to be busy around the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As for the third message, it referred to a very simple error which could be set right in a couple of minutes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The soldier and prisoners will be on our street any minute. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later the child is drawing on the wall. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Within minutes there is a voice at the door. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Catch the Spirit!—and they handed out a stack of dittos, and for the next thirty minutes, Principal Peattie stood on the stage and read them to us. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We’d been fighting for almost five minutes and there was no blood. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to cancel on two of our clients so last minute. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He stood awkwardly on the platform for a minute or two, then dismissed the class. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a full minute, the bear stood frozen in place, gazing at them. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Surely you can let David stay a few minutes?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come, come,” said the Senses Taker, chuckling gaily to himself, “don’t take all day. I’m expecting several more visitors any minute now.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d make up your mind in the next five minutes, if I were you,” Hermes advised. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You mind stepping out to talk with me in private for a minute? I won’t take up much of your time.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was pensive a few minutes, then rousing herself, she said cheerfully— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bags of sassafras and licorice root and birdeye vine sat open for bargaining, and by the time we poked around those a minute, Constantine’s whole body’d be rambling and loose in the joints. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For a minute, he just looks at me, smiling. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing we can use,” she said after a few minutes, “but I found their trail. Are you sure you want to do this?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It must be around forty-five minutes till the ceremony.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a minute later, we come to a stop sign and Jane pulls over to the side of the road and looks at me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Cecilia was lost to the events of ten minutes before and could not have composed a simple sentence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As I stand in the shower, trying to remind myself I have to make it a quick one, I lose myself for a minute in thoughts of Rhiannon. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then, in my soggy compost-covered jeans, I legged it over the crossroads and qualified for Spooks with not two minutes to spare but two chimes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But I had never caused my parents “a minute’s worry.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You're not really into baseball but you give the book a chance for obvious reasons, plus you need to earn some minutes. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Is that what you are trying to do. Am I never to have one minute’s peace.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jo couldn’t resist giving that little slap, but May took it so meekly she regretted it a minute after, and fell to praising the great vases, which still remained unsold. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In two minutes Werner has a vector and a distance: two and a half kilometers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He could make intricate toys—tiny windmills, rattles, minute jewel boxes out of dried palm reeds; he could carve perfect boats out of tapioca stems and figurines on cashew nuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey was picking me up to go to Calypso Highs winter carnival in fifteen minutes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He would indeed fight Max Schmeling again, two years later, and Schmeling would last all of two minutes and four seconds before his corner threw in the towel. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the waning minutes before game time there was a small stream of black passing white to get to the Carter side, and white passing black to get to the Permian side. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath and stare at the two lovebirds for a minute. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The corporal gave us one minute to get the food and eat it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, as they neared the top of the bank, one of the rangers happened to glance back down into the wash while pausing to catch his breath. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only minutes after Mr. Boston hung up, four police cars sped up and screeched to a stop outside the phone booth. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After a minute One-Eye shook his head and took a step back. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She gives me a quick kiss on the cheek, waves to Ms. Lucas who has been staring at us wide-mouthed for the last few minutes, and walks out. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

In half a minute, it was the size of a melon! James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought hours had passed when really it was minutes. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all turned and turned, and for a brief few minutes, I thought I could spin the rest of the party right out of my mind. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

For the next fifteen minutes he stood there working busily, at what I could not see but only guess. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

That’s why she knew something was wrong even before she looked at the clock and saw that he was fifteen minutes late. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, his face was in Laila’s window, nails tucked in the corner of his mouth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Matt, you wait here a few minutes. When the coast is clear, come out wherever you went in,” said the bodyguard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes without checking a text message is like the end of the world.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was rougher going now, but fifteen minutes later he reached it: the highway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was so excited that I was talking a mile a minute, but I was talking to myself. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo allowed himself a couple more minutes to fasten the brace. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I stand around the kitchen a minute but I ain’t got nothing left to do in there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And then they hug for like fifteen minutes. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“This weather may have slowed him a bit. Perhaps we should wait a few minutes.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This lag can be very embarrassing if, for example, you have waited until the last minute to realize that you are going to land short of the runway. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haas, an archaeologist at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, had plucked the fabric from the earth minutes before, two graduate students immortalizing the operation with digital cameras. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d been home for only a few minutes when Tyler called. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even though the screen stayed blank and there was no movement on the stage, it seemed like the trial could resume any minute. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Lunch would be over in a few minutes. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

One minute he made her blush and the next he made her want to commit murder. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Auri scampered down into the courtyard and in a few minutes returned with a delicate porcelain teacup for me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't been doing my afternoon jogging, I wouldn't have lasted for more than a minute on my feet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t hear of it, and within minutes the pretty golden baby was lying on his back in the center of my bed, laughing at me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for every minute my BlackBerry lay dormant in my lap, I felt the walls starting to breach, the doubts beginning to rampage. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It took exactly one more minute before he heard the distinct groan of a cow in distress on the other side of the stable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I spoke for forty-five minutes to the strangely silent and attentive group of teens. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After a few more minutes, the dark splotches ahead of us came into focus. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And we drove all the way to Swindon and it took 3 hours 12 minutes and we had to stop for petrol and Mother bought me a Milkybar but I didn’t eat it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He let me hug him for a minute before he pushed me away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A minute later, the flap separating Major Major’s office from the orderly room flew open and the second C.I.D. man was back, puffing frantically in haste. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

For a minute, I’m about to get real upset... Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take five minutes before he was standing there. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The medicine goes into effect thirty minutes after consumption, but if I forget to take it, the effects afterward are unpredictable. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to spend another minute in this room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Since five hours—the official adjournment time—hadn’t yet been reached, he took a loss of thirty-five minutes on his clock. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The group also requested “an audience for not more than two minutes in Washington as soon after your arrival as possible.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Startop could make out, after a few minutes, which steamer was first, and gave me the word “Hamburg,” in a low voice, as we sat face to face. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Between that and the magic salve Grover used, my shoulder felt better within a couple of minutes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“All right,” I said, “I’ll get you some water. It will take a few minutes.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A giant column of smoke and ash rose to a height of sixty thousand feet in less than ten minutes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

One minute you were having a conversation and the next minute he was blowing up. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The last ten minutes, she talks about what we’re going to do tomorrow. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes it was creeping up the lower slope of the distant mountains, making that young world every moment softer. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I crouched slightly and struck an offensive pose, noticing that a timer now appeared in the corner of my display, counting down from three minutes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After several minutes of snuffing and rolling, the draccus came back to the flat bed of coals that was all that remained of our fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stay at Gram’s grave for a few minutes before walking back to Morning Glory Cottage. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’ll exquisite day you, buddy, if you don’t get down off that bag this minute. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It was about a quarter mile back to Toby’s trailer, and it wouldn’t take him two minutes on foot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

For a minute I didn’t know if she meant a drink drink. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he got back I waited a minute, then tugged on his paper so his pencil left a streak across the page. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

For a minute I thought it was the replica of a lounge in a guest house I visited once on an island off the coast of Maine. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I walk away, and he leaves a minute later. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would ask us a question and we would answer, and then he would ask the same question thirty minutes later. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In less than fifteen minutes we were on the ground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I left a few minutes early, so Sohrab could try on his cleats before we headed to the field. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It took me a minute to figure out how to answer. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She rips the package open and peers inside of it for what feels like ten minutes—but when she finally turns back toward me, she’s smiling. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“They spoke outside. They walked our property for thirty or forty minutes.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our interest in each other was never keener than during the fifteen minutes before the first bell of the first day. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A silence followed for a minute or so. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

An hour and fifteen minutes until the lullaby of soft violence stops and she blinks awake. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With one minute left, they lined up and started again. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had to be alert every minute, just as everyone was alert now, looking at Bailey, wondering what Leon’s next move would be. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Took me fifteen minutes to skateboard to the mall. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Okay, fine. Let me think on it for a minute.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The room seemed unnaturally bright for so early in the morning, despite the curtains being closed, and within only a few minutes, the headache had crept back in, claws out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Nammy hesitated a moment, and then she said, “Went off to the trash heaps just a minute ago.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a few minutes before he says, “The first meteor shower I saw was huge. I never wanted it to end.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Anything to bring back the assurance he’d felt in the parking lot only a few minutes earlier. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

For a minute it felt like fate, but then I realized it wasn’t that deep. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute. You haven’t done anything wrong. This isn’t about you or your cousins. I just need your help,” she says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, as the minutes went by, the music seemed to become louder. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Could they have somehow spread even farther since I looked in the mirror a few minutes ago? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her expression reminded me of glass—like she might break any minute. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They sat for another few minutes, but it felt like five hours. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If Mario couldn’t find him in a few minutes, Chester would give a quick chirp as a hint. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a very few minutes, Lieutenant Baker’s hunch will make history. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s only five minutes outside of town, most people consider this the country out here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After a minute, nearly asleep, she felt the odd cold little touch of the brush on her toes, and shivered. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute or so Mary said, “Can you see Dust?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We had fifteen minutes to gather whatever we needed and pile into the car. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a final discussion about Plato’s cave, we are left to our usual ten minutes of free time. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes the men were seen to be running in all directions. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

After another minute, though, it was still just her and me, so I said, “Well, let’s wait on the fire escape at least. It’s covered, so we can get out of the rain.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, the minute her hands wrapped around the gourd’s hard shell and she heard that delicious slosh within, her mouth had turned as dry as paper. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was like that for twenty minutes: just dark nothing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They spoke for a few minutes in the Coptic tongue, and the alchemist bade the boy enter. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the second day of break, and I’ve been here a minute now. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed only a few minutes later that he passed a large fistful of sugar packets to another friend of his, instead of the prescribed six. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. One minute you’re yelling at me, the next minute you’re giving me a bite of your candy bar.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just let me sit for a minute, please?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the starting gate he broke through over and over again, delaying the start for three minutes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took nearly a minute to connect, the line hissing and clicking, going quiet, then hissing again, so that I could feel every mile of the vast distance my call was spanning. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Nigro explained that there were ten stops on the circuit, and we had to complete all of them within two minutes and fifteen seconds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know what was going on, so after a couple of minutes, I followed her. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, the doors to the dining room slide open. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was quiet again for a minute, lost in a little reverie for a lifetime’s drinking. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes until the team left for the lake. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They lean awkwardly and look like they might topple over at any minute. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“If you want to catch Mr. de Winter he went straight across the lawn only two minutes ago,” said Frith. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But in a few minutes, he drifts off, too. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We were on the choppers and out in minutes, with Simpson screaming at us to get our weapons on safety. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed and listened for a minute, then got up to see who it was. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They began to arrive a few minutes later. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ll never forget him,” he whispered, sounding more and more morose by the minute. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We stand there for a minute and then he says, “Skip.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

For the first few minutes neither one of us said anything, but I wanted to at least try to talk to Dad to see if we could talk without ending up in a fight. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The first call that reached us through the jammed circuits was from Dad, just minutes after the phone came to life. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes had passed and the smell of baking cookies had started to sneak from the oven door and float around the kitchen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not even five minutes had passed when I received my first customer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I got here twenty-seven minutes ago,” he said. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had been here to feel my anguish in the last five minutes, how could I have kept them from being suspicious? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the last minute, I convince Ma to make me a powder-blue blouse and a navy miniskirt with a fringe that swirls around Marcia's white thighs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I jump when Imani calls my name, and I don’t notice that fifteen minutes have gone by. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He stands up, and for a minute my head is perfectly quiet inside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We were down 6 points, then we were down 9, and then 12 with a minute to play in the first half. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bring some down in just a minute,” she said, closing the door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, they run off and play in the street. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I sat there for a full minute, staring at the receiver. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I stood in front of it for several minutes at a time, studying her face and her body. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, listening to the last twenty minutes, and it feels like Arthur is right beside me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

One minute she was talking to my father, complaining about the tenants upstairs, scheming how to evict them under the pretense that relatives from China were moving in. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, I pull in front of the house and see Stuart sitting on the top porch step. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had a few more minutes to destroy seventeen years of evidence. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the hut Ma gets us girls up and spends a few minutes with each of us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later the book dropped from his hands, and he closed his eyes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We stopped a minute to watch it, and he rested his hand on my shoulder as he had on the gatepost. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

After half a minute or so he turned his head to me like he was gonna say something, but nothing came out of his mouth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The minute hand on the alarm clock reached the number twelve and, at that precise moment, the streetlamp outside the window went out. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You know what the city center is like! Get up a few minutes earlier!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I handed it to Radar after a few minutes, and he looked at it for a while before writing on the corner of his notebook closest to me, The green highlighting must mean something. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Another couple minutes went by before I decided I had to use my mind on him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

However, they managed to avoid other guards for the remaining minutes until the bell rang. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The undertaker’s men arrived a few minutes ago. I’m going to ask them to seal the casket. Before I do, would you like to see your mother one last time?” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Now just a minute, Captain!” the First Officer said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, he was able to understand strange new concepts. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It takes her a minute to place the three, given their current condition, but already she wears a look of consternation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There are three or four runs left, and James says if I wait a few minutes I can take Helen home and drop off a big order at the same time, so I wait. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On our long hike up the stairs, minutes behind the regular officers, few of us had anything to say. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In life, the minute he seemed like one thing, he’d change and become another. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mama’s flight was due to arrive in about five minutes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I’m fine with only five minutes of practice, especially when I’m so bad in comparison. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

His constant fear of being arrested was only growing with each passing minute. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Only for a few minutes. Then wake me up,” Nathan said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

During the next fifteen minutes, radio listeners throughout the country heard the frightening updates. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As if those few minutes of seeing him pretty had wiped out a lifetime of memories. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Macon hated tobacco; Milkman tried to put a cigarette in his mouth every fifteen minutes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind putting on your gloves again for just a minute, Mrs. Popper? I’d like you to start playing that ‘Military March’ again and let the penguins parade for a minute. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some lady who works at Good Sam with my mother called her a few minutes ago and told her that they had just brought in some kids from Hazelwood— basketball players, she thinks. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every minute since she had stepped off the train she had been laughing at Pheoby’s advice. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Let me get you out of there. It will just take a minute....” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, I was in line at Kmart, buying three spiral notebooks, a new calculator, a pack of unsharpened pencils, and a pack of Skittles. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I dosed my eyes and dozed for several minutes until a sound I thought I had dreamed woke me up. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

In a minute or so I felt myself being lifted up; and swinging back and forth in the net, I was carried with my three companions to the white truck I had seen earlier. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger took a look at the clock, eight minutes left. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We kissed. Like, she kissed me. About ten minutes ago. On Radar’s parents’ bed.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Coach had us run suicides for twenty minutes, his way of punishing us for being part of something stupid. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And the air had brightened ever so slightly; he could make out more of the details of the Maze than he’d been able to just minutes before. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was told later that I’d been unconscious, hidden under the mattress, for several minutes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I stalked off, there wasn’t much else I could do other than go back up to his room, and then he came up himself several minutes later. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bake for 3 to 5 minutes, keeping a close eye on them. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But it’s getting darker and colder every minute. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

What would have been a twenty-minute walk took just a few minutes in the car. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In half a minute it could be turned out and the mold oiled for the next pouring. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later the old man was back. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove on in silence for another few minutes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie looked at me with an impatience I hadn’t seen in his face even when he took thirty minutes to loop the laces over his high-topped shoes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about a minute she asked, “Well? What do you want me to watch?” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of looking for a key, he grows impatient and returns to his study to retrieve the silver knife that is embedded in the dartboard on the wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Usually these instructions are reasonably clear, although you may need to study the music for a minute to get the "road map" clear in your mind. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Rumor had it that the corporation had slowed the clocks to squeeze even more minutes out of the long summer shift. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, I began to feel foolish. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes and a few turns later, it got quiet. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Forty-five minutes later, freshly showered and changed into Violet-approved denim and silk, I slip into my black satin shoes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It just means you run three minutes at 80 percent speed, and one minute full-out. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And for just that minute I stopped wishing my baby would die. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting here for thirty minutes is too risky. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He’d go on with his sermon for too long, five minutes or more, preaching about the evils of hate and reminding me how hate had hurt folks back in our old home, the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid so. I was gone just a minute or two.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

That familiar debate alone chewed up a good ten minutes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was thinking a mile a minute and then he nodded and sort of mumbled “okay” under his breath. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now, after a minute or two of breathless silence, one of the high-schoolers thinks he hears something. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran into the back room and returned a minute later, pulling something out of a bag and tossing it to me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I turned and started back, in hopes of confronting him; he disappeared, but in a few minutes I turned around and he was there again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I dug through my Kellner & Newton Messenger Bag, wishing again for my old backpack, my fingers fumbling for the passport I had slid inside only a few minutes before. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He hung up and stood in silence for a full minute. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just, as it turned out, seven minutes too late. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After a minute or so, I find it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Back in the store with the numbers in my vest pocket, I decide to steal a few more minutes and make my calls on company time from the pay phone near layaway. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s strong as an ox, but he has the mind of a four-year-old. He can’t remember anything for more than a minute.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll just be a minute," Paulie says, and so I lean against the wall, and I feel nervous enough about the ID to forget being nervous about my proximity to Jane. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I can spend minutes, tens of minutes, running my eyes over the print: faith. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The old fossil had me on the run from the minute I got there.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“She stayed about two minutes and didn’t understand what we were doing.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, only fifteen minutes after she’d left the ground, she was standing on the first branch and planning her route to the next. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes, I peek anxiously out the window. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, seeing my distress, said, “You were a good baby, Louise. You never gave us a minute’s worry.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you dont take him right away this minute and keep him away, I’m going to make Jason whip you.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, she hugged Grace and then she hugged Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had calculated that we could leave at 6:00 A.M. central daylight time, stop three times at twenty minutes per stop, and still arrive at our destination at 9:00 P.M. eastern daylight time. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"One must come first. Art Corin's elder by full twenty minutes. And his better too, let's hope, though that's no great mastery." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Round the world and back in a minute—what a wonderful box!” said Jane. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The minutes dragged by, and the conversation waned. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You just got here. Surely you didn’t come all this way just to spend a few minutes and go back home.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The others agreed, the meeting adjourned, and in a few minutes the girls had disappeared into the ceiling and the boys had gone to bed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The onslaught of selfies is really important; if I go two minutes on Instagram without seeing your face, I’d probably forget what you look like.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

So I spend five more minutes sitting in my parked car staring at my email again on my phone. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes he called out her name. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I took advantage of our last few minutes together to snap some instant Polaroid memories. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I wanted every possible minute with them, even if it meant being left with the memory of watching them all die in front of me,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I have a friend in New York who always runs up stairs a mile a minute. Says it keeps him from getting out of breath. Why don’t you try it?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“The blooper,” as Watson described it, “was too unbelievable to keep secret for more than a few minutes.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We have to go back to Peshawar,” said Zafoona, sounding more desperate by the minute. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Just to have that thirty minutes of solitude during the drive—it was decadent but essential. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“She waited a minute, rocking on her heels, and then she lit a cigarette and went and stood by the window. She began to laugh. She went on laughing. I thought she would never stop. ‘ Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

No one else had entered or left, but when his aide knocked on the door a few minutes later, there had been no answer. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We’ll be going in a minute, son, but when he goes to put his glass on the coffin after the long swallow I push it away. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So I waited a minute, then I kicked his desk hard enough to send his math book flying off the table and to the ground. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

For a minute, I even wondered if he still wanted to be my friend, knowing my family was all broken up like it was. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And as soon as the guard passed, I got back out of bed onto die floor area of that light-glow, where I would read for another fifty-eight minutes—until the guard approached again. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Aumack called the police again and in a few minutes the whole block was filled with squad cars. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janae pulls out her phone and spends a couple of minutes scrolling. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was hanging upside down asleep, but the smell of me rising up to him would probably wake him up at any minute! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

After a little while, what little awkwardness as existed during the initial minutes of our meeting had dissipated completely, and our conversation took a more personal turn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Elsie finished them all in fifteen minutes flat and was the first to claim her invite. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes I get the knack of tossing the pan so that the pancakes which are done on one side sail up, turn in the air and are caught again as they come down. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grown on either sugar alone, the bacterium begins to divide rapidly, doubling in number every twenty minutes or so. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes after bringing the four men to the staging ground, he was on another boat, looking for people in need. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Good surgeons were ones who could work quickly, removing the limbs in a minute or less. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Where is it? I had it not five minutes ago. Hullo, what’s this? Oh, the treatise on Bee Folk of Redwall!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Come in this minute and tell me what happened.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The idea was that we could stay away from most people and not catch their germs, so we wouldn’t get sick at the last minute. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Released after what was probably a solid minute, but still too soon, Tally stepped back, hoping that she wouldn’t cry again. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was the same amount of books, but it was always a couple minutes. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The amplified sounds of the forest floor under our feet make me realize we haven't said a word in several minutes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At two minutes before four in the afternoon, his father sprang the trap. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

From my pocket I tear my weapon—a plastic bag of stale bread I thought to bring at the last minute—and hurl pieces at the dogs like hand grenades. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute, Minerva picked up the tale again, speaking in the heavily accented voice of her grandmother. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Two more from section three. And we still have to stare into each other’s eyes for four minutes.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got ten minutes before we start admissions. I don’t feel like getting behind schedule, so I’m going to move this right along.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After the test, me and Dylan practice our steps for the Helsing technique for about thirty minutes and then report to the dueling gym. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At the minute mark, Oberman looked up from his stack of paperwork and pointed to the door. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Valencia had been on the phone for maybe ten minutes when the Spanish stopped and she switched to English. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Linda dropped her arm back, laying one cool hand against his thigh, glad that he could not see her face, and neither of them said anything for a few minutes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found herself wondering why, in her last minutes of life before the dragon ate her, she was staring up its nose. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I stood there and thought for a minute. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Miss Spider had made the first bed. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, for twenty minutes, Papa prayed for our protection from ungodly people and forces, for Nigeria and the Godless men ruling it, and for us to continue to grow in righteousness. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there at the edge for a minute, looking into all the green there. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Came up to say hello, soldier. I’m between schools, so I’ve only got a few minutes. Couldn’t’ve seen you otherwise today. How are we doing?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It would take about fifteen minutes to go to the Lytes’, fifteen minutes to get back. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t have been more than three minutes before I grounded and that other Fayre Eleyne and a neighbor pulled me out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the work of a minute to cut a flower. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I explained to the other boys that we had arrived just a few minutes before them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, he returned with an older white woman. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four hours later I was eager to return to the campus, although after fifteen minutes of the usual cottage commotion, I wanted to be back with the Courters. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

After working on his statement for about ten minutes, while the audience—in uncomfortable sympathy—sat waiting, Euwe read his confession aloud, signed it, and handed it to Efim Geller, Spassky’s second. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall pointed to seventeen minutes before midnight. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For the next few minutes, Miss Emily went on reminiscing about different events from those days, mentioning a lot of people whose names meant nothing to us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nelson says it’s because the lion tried to eat up Adah, but Jesus turned her into a bushbuck right just at the last minute. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moss used to punish Luke by dunking his head in the bathtub, and one of the adopted kids claimed Mrs. Moss held her head underwater for several minutes until she had trouble breathing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Annabeth and I stood there for like five minutes, staring at Rachel, but if she noticed us she didn’t let on. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jonathan followed him; they both fell out of sight, but in a minute Jonathan’s head came back in view on the outside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We sat across from each other in stony silence for about ten minutes. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We turned to one another and offered congratulations—for the first few minutes. Then, there was a chill, which was not the morning cold.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This action may result from minute doses often repeated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey kept squeezing my hand really hard for a few minutes, until the blood specimens had all been taken and an IV line was hooked up to his port. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Reducing the number of revolutions per minute,” Mr. Foster explained. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first minute or so after my phone died, I just sat there, frozen in silence. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

And when he told me what it was, he said that he was only telling me because I’d probably figure it out the minute I walked into his house. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It took my father an hour to walk to work every day, but if I ran fast, I could make it there in twenty minutes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes of silence, the last reporter left. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He drives slower than he needs to, and ten minutes later we reach his house. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie’s big hand. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

For several minutes she had been holding her cigarette ashes in her cupped left hand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes, he seems to forget all about our conversation. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

By running at top speed and by never stopping to sightsee or second-guess myself, I managed to complete the game in twenty-two minutes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Any minute, gravity will triple and crush me like an empty soda can. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Grabbed mine in the first twenty minutes. The rest must have been scared off by the shot and headed towards Chi-Roy there. He grabbed one too.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He squeezed the Bruce Lee tooth in the palm of his hand, peeking at it every few minutes. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"In a minute," said Ampai, without taking her gaze from Pong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything for a minute and I asked him how it had all gone. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She booked it that morning, and she’s supposed to call home the minute she gets there so that they can decide what to do next. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had promised Herbert I would be with him during the execution, and it took me a few minutes to realize I needed to move quickly to get to the prison two hours away. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Vega had been messaging me every few minutes, but I had been ignoring him. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Within another minute or so the round piece of land was exactly vertical, half in the ground and half out, still rotating. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I asked the Mexican man to turn the car around, again in my exquisite high school Spanish, and it took about fifteen minutes to make myself understood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gathered, panting and sweating, and waited a few minutes for their hearts to stop pounding. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elsie and I get dressed, brush our teeth, and make our beds in two minutes flat. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She listened for almost a minute, switched spots, listened again, switched spots again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

One minute, they were pushing, and the next minute, the Tag and Bag grocery cart was out of their hands, rolling down the hill. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of driving, we come to a house with a main entrance and two smaller entrances on each side. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to leave big holes for your nose. And the whole thing will be dry in less than forty minutes. You can wash your face right afterward. Promise.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“One minute an injured boy is asleep in this bed, and the next minute he’s vanished?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I spend the first few minutes practicing without a knife, finding the right stance, learning the right arm motion. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Set a timer on a cell phone, watch, or oven; punch in three minutes; and see what you can do. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I kicked at ’em they’d back off for a few minutes, then slowly start waddling under our feet again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Now skedaddle. I want lights out in two minutes. So good night and I’ll see you at dawn.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It took us all a minute to understand what he was doing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She told us that ants sleep for just eight minutes a day but that snails can sleep for three years. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A blood clot could lodge in my brain and kill me ten minutes from now; a car could hit you while you’re walking your dog. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Wait a minute, is this the same Tommy who used to hate reading? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bichard said, “I can use a rest for a minute. It’s been a long day.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the eighth round finally began, the lights went out again, but this time only for eight minutes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, the woman next to me leaves, and a guy approaches and asks if he could sit down. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Several minutes went by, and then another boom rattled windows and shook houses in the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I rested for perhaps ten minutes, then got up and had a look around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Intermission is only ten minutes,” he said, “and then the children must perform. Get them into costumes, quickly!” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Less than fifteen minutes later the shooting started again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The gunfire lasts only a minute, if that—but it seems like forever. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t move for at least five minutes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But forty-seven minutes have passed since his proclamation, so maybe he's changed gears. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They told her to give him a few minutes alone. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later his wife walked out of the building with Hall’s folder in her purse. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We set him down every few minutes and wiped his sweaty forehead. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The minute we walk into my dad’s house, I know something’s wrong. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Given Denna’s tendencies, I was worried that if I lost sight of her for more than a minute she would disappear like morning fog. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The radio was cutting in and out while the announcer gave the weather report and said they would be talking to an FBI spokesman in a few minutes. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Just a minute, Mamma!” she shouted back, knowing full well it would be more than a minute. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“We must have walked for about twenty minutes. We went down this hill, to the bottom of a gully where a stream was, when my dad suddenly said to me, ‘Coraline—run away. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

A solid minute later, he pulled the knife away in frustration. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The word reverberated in his head as they waited for long minutes before hauling themselves out of the trench and going over to the scattered corpses of the vandals. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If Daito failed to deactivate the Beta Capsule and return to human form before his three minutes were up, his avatar would die. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He can die at 11:59 p.m., but not a minute before. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He vomited for a few minutes, and wiping his mouth, he said, “Those were ghosts last night. I know it.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I checked my phone: twenty-one minutes until band. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It took a few minutes for Mrs. O’Leary to calm down and get off me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Seven waited for the circle above the Spare coven to do the same, but as the seconds and then minutes passed, nothing happened. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It takes ten minutes for “On the Come Up” to upload on Dat Cloud, and twenty seconds to text Supreme the link. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’d have to wake up real early if I wanted to get to the mission in time for breakfast, if you were one minute late they wouldn’t let you in for food. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute!” cried Meggie as Mo moved to help him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They stood outside and talked to each other for a minute, and then one came back and told me to stick my hands out the open window. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I turn it on, then stand there for at least a minute, forgetting entirely why I’m standing there. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mam sits by the table with her breath coming hard and says she’ll cut the bread in a minute. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When dessert is finished a few minutes before two o’clock in the morning, Chandresh stands and clears his throat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But I’m not one of those fishermen that changes lures and checks their bait every five minutes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chew on my lip for a minute, watching the blue and red lights get farther away. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The minute she heard him, she wished they could talk forever. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I mean if it’s all right with you. I’ll only stay a minute. I’d just like to sit down somewhere and—I don’t know. Would it be all right?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“The dead request five more minutes,” she would say, and bury her head in the furs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There we were stopped a few minutes by a signal from the sergeant’s hand, while two or three of his men dispersed themselves among the graves, and also examined the porch. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later I find myself standing in front of the elephant. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His chin got the hard look it got just before he slammed a home run, and after a minute you could tell he’d thought of something because his ears got red. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about ten minutes, when I was somewhere near the back of the store, I thought I heard Ruth’s voice and wandered towards it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at twenty minutes after six in the morning, I wander past the railroad station on my way home from work. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I said come down this minute for if I have to climb these stairs I’ll warm your behind and you’ll rue the day. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Herman W. Block Memorial Library’s air' conditioning unit didn’t work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn'Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The drive to Davis Square took only five minutes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a thrill, Mom allowing us out of the house for more than a sleepover, allowing us farther than twenty minutes outside Jankburg. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For once, I went a few minutes without looking at the clock, so I was surprised by the bell ringing, and took longer than everyone else to get my backpack packed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Amazing—in a few minutes we had gone from no name to three. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The waves rose in growing fury, each overtopping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The old church clock showed a few minutes before ten as the contestants positioned themselves directly beneath the long banner that stretched across the street. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knows how the fire started, but it rushed through the whole building in minutes. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Pet asked after a few minutes, and Redemption jumped, blushing. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

So it takes me a few minutes before I find a folded piece of notebook paper. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

And even after she had been gone several minutes he still fumbled with his shirt-sleeves and stared at the empty doorway. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Be out in a minute,” Dad drawled, trying to sound sleepy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You know what? I got something for this. I bet that I can make you smile in less than two minutes.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes, he was back in the kitchen, his robes on the right way now, dragging a comb through his hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He allowed her a minute, placing her on the toilet seat next to another person as silent and sluggish as herself. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby scrambled between the two seats and spent a solid two minutes trying to find and buckle the seat belt before Lily reached across him to help. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We made the last thirty meters in less than a minute, with everybody throwing grenades over the top. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes,” she answered. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In eight minutes it will travel from the Sun to the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m an idiot. Just something frightened me for a minute.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a few minutes considering, as I paced the length of my bedroom floor, how embarrassing that incident had been. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sat there and doodled with his blue pencil on a tablet, listening to me spiel to him for three or four minutes before he got a word in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d yell hi, then clack away for a few minutes, while I took out my notebook and strolled through the place, playing writer and cataloguing the apartment’s meager contents. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, there’s a loud click and a section of the back wall slides away. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I have all of three minutes to show Pop Pop what to do. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She stared at the foam for a minute, and then downed the second half. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to get about two minutes of time, but we must have talked for at least ten minutes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think that for a minute,” she said softly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes, he wasn’t lost in his head, or a play, or some dream fantasy. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I almost don’t answer, but at the last minute I punch talk. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At about two minutes into the game, Maya hooked a thirty-yard shot right into the net. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay there for a few minutes, staring at the time readout on my entertainment console out of the corner of my eye. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go together, we’ve only got a minute,” Ron said to Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, the soldiers waved them on. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"Wait a minute," he called, going over and turning a valve in an intricate network of pipes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cook was going to show Ophie how to wash the sheets, but she’d been busy setting up a menu for a dinner party Richard had decided to hold at the last minute. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was surprised when Diego texted me later that evening to meet him outside in twenty minutes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We crouch behind an old car and take deep breaths for a few minutes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I let her cry a minute on my chest and then I take her face into my hands again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Within minutes there was no one on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She keeps talking about a birthday feast. Which means we’ll be in the kitchen for hours, making something that will be eaten in ten minutes. Like homemade samosas or something.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I know you’re sad and angry, and I get it, but we should probably run for the T. My mom is going to pick us up from Davis in fifteen minutes.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’d put one of my pillows there for him and he hadn’t wasted one minute flopping down on it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He showed his credentials and, though a few eyebrows were raised, only minutes later the scrappy fourteen-year- old was escorted out of class and stood in front of him. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Sorry. There are a bunch of things I have to get around to get to you. This might take a couple minutes. Hang tight and relax.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, they turned into a gated subdivision. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I just stand there for a minute, waiting for him to see me, and then finally he does. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

After some minutes, he closed the book and put it aside. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But no—of course not—and as I felt the sour taste in my mouth and the sweat in my palms, I knew that in a minute I would be sick. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It took a long time because the judge went into minute detail in his narrative. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I been working on the generator for twenty years. It’s always managed to chug along, but this year ... I don’t know. The thing seems to break down every couple minutes.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seven minutes until the Say-So show, so she figured she may have struck out this time. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes Mom set her bag down and looked over at a bank clock. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d waited in the lobby for thirty minutes, trying to see past the streaming lines of freshmen and their parents, looking for her wild hair, her petite body. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the dogs and I are at the entrance to the park. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

What happens is this: After a minute or so, Mr. Kiley steps out onto the stage and gets everybody quieted down. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two new friends whom I had invited to my home over the Thanksgiving break both canceled at the last minute. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

For one crazy minute I thought, Mr. Willard was going to announce that Mrs. Willard was pregnant and expecting a baby girl. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I read Modern Drummer Magazine for five- minute stretches. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They listened for ten minutes without moving, their heads down, their ears turned toward the radio. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I imagine any other teacher would’ve been on the phone to Psychological Counseling in about five minutes had he heard what Henry said about arming the Greek class and marching into Hampden town. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She will be in a few minutes. We’ll have to move her in with you for a while, I should think; I can’t imagine her wanting to sleep in here again.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jam sat for a few minutes with her fingers on the images, staring down, turning a page, and staring at the next one. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In minutes, she peeled back thick sections, like a steak, for each gill and she turned them like pages in a book. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even though Rhiannon was concerned about Justin having to wait for us, he ends up coming ten minutes after we do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I wait in silence, until exactly one minute passes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She told him it would ride next to him for ten whole minutes, and he could touch it all he wanted. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“No, forget about all that for a minute,” Skid said, leaning forward. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In less than fifteen minutes everything except the house had been turned upside down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m on my break, so I can chill with you for a hot minute,” he says, and takes a seat right in front of me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He thought how ten minutes ago—yes, only ten minutes— there had still been equivocation in his heart as he wondered whether the news from the front would be of victory or defeat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I expect it to take hours, but it only takes a few minutes to reach it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The longest blackout ever had been three minutes and fourteen seconds. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a long, long minute, my mom speaks up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I thought I’d just go lay down on the daybed a few minutes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I looked in on them about ten minutes ago, Father. They’re both sleeping like hibernating squirrels. It’s not likely that they’ll wake until evening.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dallas tries for another minute to make it seem completely catastrophic that I drank an ounce of salt water. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I couldn’t take another minute, I knocked back a big swig of brandy and two aspirins, but it didn’t help. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute I was walking alone—I was heading for the bomb crater—and the next minute someone was beside me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, I am driving into Jill’s apartment complex and I have the music turned up so we don’t have to talk. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Makalu Gau appeared, having been dragged down the glacier on a piece of plastic by a half-dozen Sherpas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

After about a minute, the ground stops vibrating. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, for a minute at that Yankee restaurant, I felt like he was with me. Took me right on back.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to he down for just a minute,” said Louisiana, “and then when I get up, I will be ready to eat some candy corn.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

If he’s in danger now, then he was in danger this morning and yesterday, and every minute since you’ve been here, Jam pointed out. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Less than five minutes later he was back, and he sneaked up the stairs like a thief to visit us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For a scant few minutes, that twinkling bathroom became a world unto itself; a cocoon far away from trouble and war. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was one of those games when they play two minutes and then argue five. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many minutes passed, and I worried she was going to be late. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the first peaceful minute I’ve had since I came to the city.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It took Evan half an hour to drag his loaded wagon to the town center—a distance he usually traveled in less than five minutes by bike. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was pulled off the ice, but was back on a few minutes later, and when he was he went straight for Number Four, the big guy who’d knocked him down. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could run that in a little over four minutes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The thing looked like it could transform into a towering sixty-foot robot at any minute. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The full force of the headache struck a few minutes later, as I was chatting with Helen and Chhongba in the mess tent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

That left me with hardly enough time to make breakfast and get myself dressed before driving to morning gym practice forty-five minutes away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Barack, he recalls, was friendly and confident and made a couple of minutes of easy small talk before we ran up to my apartment to pick something up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And then, after precisely one minute of running, Takumi stopped and ripped open his backpack. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wish I could describe every second of those eleven minutes on stage, every move, every jump. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It had only been four minutes since I parked, but it felt like an hour. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A minute and a half later, I’m ringing Hilly’s bell. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My mother waited until the very last minute to cross over to Ghetto A, rushing back to our building one last time for a cooking pot, which she wrapped in a sheet. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

For the next three minutes she rode it without saying another word. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, some nurses had come into the room with mops and buckets. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the right shape for a city—no domes, no minarets—and it took them a minute to process the tall geometric forms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, they were barricaded in Moaning Myrtle’s out-of-order bathroom once again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He just stares at me like he’s only just noticed me, even though we’ve been talking for at least five minutes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I can have you out of this family in two minutes,” Shawn said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The quiet streets and passing minutes without incident had returned our focus to the oozing stromboli and not the Toyota. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Tiny fringes of hair, minute claws, jointed legs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That was the second time in less than a minute that my father had smiled. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It took me a minute to focus, and even then I wasn’t sure who was looking back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Three minutes after six and counting, I think. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alex. Please. Just take your sister over there and wait. I need a minute to think.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

This took but a minute—she had only to look at the first question, after all. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, she’d blabbed to everyone, making it sound like a big joke—with Jess and the twins as the punch line. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She taps away on the screen for a couple minutes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She quietly left the field house and sat outside for a few minutes in the parking lot in her car. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, let’s hurry on to class now, gentlemen. You’re already ten minutes late. You can get back to the Jets and the Sharks at break, all right?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It had taken two baths and an entire bar of soap to get the tar off her aching hands and feet, and Philippa had spent thirty minutes cleaning out and binding the wounds on each. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Norma jumps off the couch and grabs the history test she had brought home so eagerly just a few minutes earlier. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I turn on the shower and stand under the warm rain for a minute before I realize I'm still in my underclothes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Grandma has been over here more than a minute and hasn’t made one snide remark about her yet. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I devoured all of it in a few minutes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Got in last night I booked this hotel at the last minute. You been here long?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It was no good, because I threw it away a few minutes later. But if the same thing happened today, I should keep it.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Ranofer was glowing with the praise, as joyful now as he had been miserable two minutes before. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty minutes had passed, and still no sign of Sticky. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The last time we got only five minutes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And finally, what felt like a full couple of minutes later, the pteranodon’s torso and giant wings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I tickled him for a few minutes, and after that he seemed to forget about the leeches, rolling around on the ground right over them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu served her drink last and wasted long minutes drying his hands on a dish towel before he opened the door to let her in. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At 2100 hours, he said—less than twenty minutes from now—every man there was going over the top; anyone who stayed behind would be court-martialed; it was time, he added, to act like marines. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a minute her oval face appeared, the shower curtain snug around it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“No matter. They will horse Bore again in a minute. Here he is, coming to the Queen. Oh, look! He has brought her a kirtle and a gown.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

You been seeing my daughter for a minute now. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval—and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a woman’s sedulous attention. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piedmont was to the northeast of their house, and it took just about twenty minutes for Moss to bike there. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After a minute poised like a waxwork, Brother Louis lowered his shaking hands to Mrs. Coulter’s neck. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoons, for a guilty few minutes, I’d watch an Oral Roberts prayer meeting on television. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I arrived at Chthonia a few minutes later, I did a cloaked flyby of the castle, just to gauge the lay of the land for myself. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After a minute or two, as I heard myself talking, I felt self-disgust. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The alley led out into the main street, and down the next turning, not five minutes away, was the junk shop where he had bought the blank book which was now his diary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I get home four minutes before curfew, and my parents are on the couch. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

All my joints complain and my left leg has been asleep for so long that it takes several minutes of pacing to bring the feeling back into it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the second group, so I didn’t have a chance to find out what was going on when the first group returned fifteen minutes later. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I stand up fast Then we have to go NOW because it takes almost nine minutes to get to school. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark raised his hands, and after a minute, the chatter settled down. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Aibileen comes back with a tray holding a teapot and two cups that don’t match, paper napkins folded into triangles. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Cole drove himself hard after Edwin and Garvey left, staying busy every waking minute of each day. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

My parents would kill me if they knew I was calling long distance, but hopefully they wouldn’t notice if I kept the call under fifteen minutes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, they were all safely down, and James was excitedly telling his story to a group of flabbergasted officials. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It took Margo more than the promised minute to return to my window, but not much more. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“So, relax, wait here a bit, and Mrs. Garcia will come and get you in a few minutes.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I got it. They couldn’t keep it away from me all afternoon. The town’s too small. I’ve got to go out home a minute,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had known Martin was awake for at least ten minutes; his breathing had become much lighter, and he had stopped doing his weird little lip licking and grunts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“How can I lie there, with him bawling down here. Benjamin. Hush this minute.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t take but a minute of your time. Could you tell us where and when registration begins?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Just before ten in the morning, the city was hit by a sudden sideways lurch now estimated at magnitude 9.0 and shaken ferociously for seven full minutes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise paid no attention to her English teacher, and fifty anxious minutes later was stopped by Henry on the way to her civics class. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes to shower and another ten to find the perfect spot on the beach to watch our first and last day together come to an end. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hold on a minute!” she said suddenly, interrupting the performance in mid-verse. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It took him only a few minutes to make the crossing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood before it a minute, selecting a box of doughnuts at half price. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon’s claws were in her furs, holding tight After a minute she opened her eyes and crawled up away from the edge. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later I heard the old man’s footsteps and he knocked on my door. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Lyra,” said Tialys, “against every instinct, we’ll go with you. I was angry with you a minute ago. But you make it hard...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to show off how well I had planned everything down to the minute, that I knew what to do; and I wanted to see if she cared. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Jazz, could you excuse us for a second, sweetie? Go hang in your room just for a few minutes." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He let what he judged to be ten minutes go by, tormented all the while by the fear that some accident—a sudden draught blowing across his desk, for instance—would betray him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He would spend ten or fifteen minutes searching the room, squinting past the cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Patterson did not notice him until he had been in the trailer for several minutes; he would be staring at the cards, sunk in a stupor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His limbs tingled and tickled, reawakening from the five-hour drive to his paternal grandmother’s mobile home on Dine Homelands, forty-five minutes north of Church Rock. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute. Let me see if he’s still in that tub.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt hadn’t figured it out— not really—until a few minutes ago. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of minutes Teenie had two steaming bowls prepared for the two girls. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” he said as the dashboard clock clicked off another minute. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Aimee and her dad were going to Los Angeles, but her mom, at the last minute, had to go to New York for a meeting. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take forever to fill up both water tanks, and each minute that they pumped Nathan wanted more and more to go back home to Phoenix. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A minute later, some goats shuffled out reluctantly. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Qendrim was chasing after a free ball in the Blue Springs goal box when the goalie took him out at the knees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It started because we saw a swastika for about three minutes. And now what do we do all day every day? We look at swastikas.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I had sleeves added, but at the last minute, decided to have them made with organza instead of satin so it’s almost see-through. I’m kind of nervous about how it’ll turn out.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ha, ha—all four parents have to stay in the same room for 120 minutes. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later the door swung open and the count saw the young girl exit with her cheeks aflame. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten minutes after twelve on the night of the killing he heard loud noises in the apartment upstairs. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, it did, not five minutes later. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He comes back not five minutes later, his face white as linen. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If I had to live like this for another half century, no, another year, another day, another minute—it would kill me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I sat there for ten more minutes, but Mom didn’t come back, so Hadley and I cleared the table. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It reached the edge of the wood, where it paused for several minutes to lick its wounds with its red, red tongue, and then, purring like an earthquake, the lion slipped away into the forest. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t answer Lucy’s question, but instead said, “Now, class three. You have two minutes to find your seat for the school year. Once I call 'time,’ your seat will be your permanent seat.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The orientation is in fifteen minutes. Hurry. We can’t be late.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

For the next ten minutes I felt surprisingly good. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, Ess looked up thoughtfully and held out a delicate shell. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And right at that minute, right when the three of us had decided to be friends, who should come marching into the Herman W. Block Memorial Library but old pinch-faced Amanda Wilkinson. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He managed to catch it again at the last minute, but even so it banged down heavily on the stone surface. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They clucked and squawked in protest, but for all Stella cared, they could be made into chicken soup that very minute. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later I walked down the stairs, the Story Box on my back, to give my first official performance as Anansesem to the most dangerous audience I could ever imagine. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A minute later, the house shook a little, and the pipes inside the walls groaned. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A minute later the field bent around the far turn and rushed at the grandstand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I went and I hated every minute of it, and I especially hated how people kept feeling sorry for me, as if it was me who died. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sure enough noticed the minute Styx started calling Bobby Gene B.G. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He saw me and crossed the room, and we made small talk for several minutes, neither of us acknowledging that we hadn’t seen each other in half a decade, neither of us alluding to why. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s probably for the best. We still have fifteen minutes of that wretched movie left to endure in Biology — I don’t think I could take any more.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You fell into a good Kommando . . .” Ten minutes later, we stood in front of the warehouse. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oliver. We all need a turn, so we must plan. Ten minutes and five of us. Two minutes each.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

One minute she’d be barking at him for a dozen pull-ups, or shooting her fingers at his face, warning him not to get too close. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The mound of provisions that a minute ago had looked so pleasingly abundant and exciting—all new! all mine!—suddenly seemed burdensome and extravagant. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Wait a minute—there's something else here. Just a few lines. Strange. I think it's a rhyme." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But I don’t recall that I had a single thought during those first minutes of relative safety. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The TV came on and I watched for a minute. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A cacophony of boos and catcalls rolled down the grandstand for a full two minutes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat really lost in thought for the first few minutes; and when rousing himself, it was only to say, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Percy figured he had maybe five minutes before they reached him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Phil rarely got upset—and ten minutes should not have been a big deal—but he had been embarrassed in front of Gay’s father. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We went on a forced march for ten minutes toward the village. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he walked quickly, he’d be back inside the fort in fifteen minutes. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Caleb and Bobby Gene Franklin, get your backsides in here right this minute!” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He felt for the edge, found it within a minute, and did as Giacomo Paradisi had told him: pinched the edges together. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clock in a window across the street told him that it was twelve minutes to three. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Edmunds fiddled a minute with her guitar, talking as she tightened the strings to the jingling of her bracelets and the thrumming of chords. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She stops walking and closes the phone but holds it a minute. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Warning. You have eight minutes to complete this challenge.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

After a minute or two, she was startled by a hesitant cough beside her. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifteen minutes, they call my name. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“They knew we were heading for the streets. Probably the explosion will throw them for a few minutes, then they’ll start looking for our exit point.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The bike ride to ABC usually took around five minutes, but this time it took the boys almost twenty because of Wes’s slow pace. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The guys were notorious for holding back some of the money until the last minute. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy and Copernicus had regarded 10 minutes as precisely the acceptable margin of error. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t she know that people need a minute to get their money ready? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later a response began flashing among the mainland trees. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why did she have to be so neurotic and perfectionistic that she was online the minute registration opened for students with last names beginning with A through C? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I sewed every free minute for four days, and when they were finished, I began a glove to protect my hand from Frightful’s sharp talons. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes, she thought, and if they didn’t come, she would go home. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a minute I see gray-robed forms walking down the street. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Should we sit here just a minute? I’m a little bit tired.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

For the next 15 minutes, Mr. Stoker lectures us on being honest and working hard and having principles. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next forty-five minutes they asked many questions, few of which I could answer. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I babble for a few minutes about my colors, wishing I could tell them about seeing the pheromones. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A minute later Fang was gasping for air again, and if possible he seemed even worse than before. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A minute later he runs back with the water for me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Jimmy would sometimes come in and make him get off, but fifteen, thirty minutes later, they were back on. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We continued to sit, baking in the sun, for nearly thirty minutes while nothing happened. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later it was gone, and the children knew that their brother was happy at last. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Slowly the minutes and hours of Friday tick by, then it’s Saturday, and our last day with Shiloh. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take us another ten or fifteen minutes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mitch rings the doorbell, and after a few minutes, an exhausted woman in a witch hat and a sweat suit answers the door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dinner will be ready in a few minutes. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He spent ten full minutes bending and unbending my knee. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She returned in less than half a minute; Colonel Meecham tasted the coffee, then shook his head mournfully, “It’s just too hot,” he said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was that Nadya and Katya would drop their bombs while Marina and Olga, flying two minutes ahead of them, would have the terrifying task of purposefully attracting enemy fire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And if you are told that you have 10 percent chance of dying within the next minute, you’ll probably panic. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am. I’m set with this, thank you much. I got to be heading back to New London here in a minute. Just a quick visit.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have twenty minutes to change and get to school. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The giants were healing, getting stronger by the minute. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a minute or so, Harry heard the clunks of Moody’s wooden leg growing fainter in the corridor below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They all sat there for nearly forty minutes, spending the majority of that time silent in awe of the unreal situation unfolding in front of them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It seemed like we were in there for fifteen minutes but then Dad and Teddy came in search of us, both of them grumpy. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed unable to prevent himself from glancing upward every minute or so. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t have been two minutes if you had called me soon’s you got there. Sooner. Should have called me soon’s they picked you up.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She'll be fine in a few minutes. Just enough time for me to compose a poem about our victory: Apollo and his friends save Olympus.’ The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s preoccupied with Uncle Jack stuff, so he doesn’t question why I have him drop me off thirty minutes early. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

We begin with a video, about fifteen minutes long, on the history and philosophy of Wal-Mart, or, as an anthropological observer might call it, the Cult of Sam. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said: “No, thank you. I only want to look at the fire a few minutes. Then I’ll get sleepy. The fire always does that.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The first day I came here, I was worried that I'd never be able to chat for thirty minutes. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stay for a few minutes, watching and waiting for him to come back, but he doesn’t. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I turn my back for five minutes and everybody lets my black mollies die off. I should’ve taken them to college with me. I knew that.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

As I was taking my departure, he asked me if I would like to devote five minutes to seeing Mr. Jaggers “at it?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have forgotten that we were in a Dodge Caravan and not a BMW, because it went from zero to sixty in what felt like thirty minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My parents also said you live thirty minutes away, so maybe we could meet for coffee or something? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It takes exactly three minutes to go from the cell to the moment you are hanged. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Abuela’s face was sad, and she looked older, as if years, rather than minutes, had passed since I last saw her. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Will you wait just a minute while I grab my bike?” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I struggled, trying to get it stretched out in front of me After several terrifying minutes I managed to get my arm free. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After only a few minutes, Salva had to kick off the flapping shreds and continue barefoot. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still, I entertain her nonsense because I have a few minutes to kill before I have to get back to the station. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It took another fifteen minutes for the cab to get us to Davis Square, which meant we were ten minutes late to meet Trevor’s mom. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

These solitary minutes each morning were fast becoming a habit. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been ten minutes since my text to Will and he still isn’t here. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

At exactly one minute to noon, one of the Supply Droids, designation SD-03, powered itself on and disengaged from its charging dock. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It took me a minute to understand what I saw: two arrows in his flank. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every two or three minutes I looked at my watch, wondering why the hands weren’t moving faster. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ms. Griegson watched the chicken scratch around for a few minutes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

To prove his point he went and shook down the crowd and came back a minute later with a half-dozen inhalers that he dropped on the floor in front of us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes is nothing compared to how late I’ve been in the past. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She stood for a minute and looked at the pictures. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Also, Pauling had made him promise to let him know the minute he heard from me. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

After the longest fifty-two minutes I can remember, I corner Roger at his desk before he can even stand up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He told me to keep watch, and for the first few minutes I did. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“A couple of minutes. But I have more flares here with me. Shall I fire them at regular intervals?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When a full minute had passed, the Keeper walked around and placed her hand gently on his shoulder. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Your whole life, man, it can change in one minute. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It took him less than a minute, and this time there was no harsh scream of rust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He fired up the moldy butt and sucked on it for a solid minute without even glancing in my direction. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just wait a few minutes,” Ruth said. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the shop, if I let my guard down for a minute, I'll turn around to find all the clothes I've just folded knocked to the floor. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Within half a minute, I have nicks all over my face and a gash in my left arm. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And a few minutes after that, Hudson sent a GIF of Stewie Griffin bouncing around in anticipation. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Kellerman arrived on the scene a few minutes later to find us in much the same state as we had been before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next ten minutes, Mr. Larson walked the class through all the steps in the process—things that would happen before the hearing, at the hearing, and after the hearing. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sadie approached him warily, but he smiled at her, and a few minutes later they were talking and laughing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Albie, you know I only get five minutes to myself a day,” he said, super angry, even though I didn’t do anything—it was the man with the clipboard. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the minutes they’d been there, the crowd didn’t seem to have moved at all or in any particular direction. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For a minute, the sound becomes so overwhelming that my brain flips a switch and somehow all goes quiet. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Still, the men ventured forth, and ten minutes later we were able to put away the candles. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

One minute he was ready to vaporize us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It probably went on like that for only a few minutes, but it felt a lot longer. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After another minute of tranquility she paddled again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say anything for a long minute. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Shady said we’d find you in that tree house, but from the looks of it, you’re likely to fall out at any minute.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They lay there in silence for another minute. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I was done speaking, we sat for a few minutes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“After the work he went to. All that fuss for a toy, and then the minute you get one you throw it away!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She calls ten minutes later, then ten minutes after that. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The minute he steps inside the facility, the guard by the door gives him a once-over before pointing toward an area marked visitors. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Patting his forehead with a handkerchief, Dr. Barnes said, “Didn’t you get my memo? We have a meeting today, right now, and you’re fifteen minutes late.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered, for a minute, if his head had cracked open again, if he was dreaming. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The minute they let their guard down—boom!—he possessed them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes the kids peppered Mr. Larson with words and phrases, and he wrote them down as quickly as he could. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, within ten minutes, she saw his sturdy body trudging down the path from the highlands. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later we called Whit over. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Whenever Nat and Lem had a spare minute, he taught Lem alone, so that he could catch up with the others. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, put your stuff in your room and meet me in the hotel lobby in twenty minutes,” he said when the taxi dropped us off at the hotel. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, he comes back on again. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I spent a minute calming myself down and then called the sergeant’s office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She noted how angry Salvador looked as he got into the truck a minute later, but she was too tired to talk. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

According to this book, I’m supposed to be caught in a whirlwind of teenage emotions, laughing one minute, crying the next, zooming around on a roller coaster, which is their term. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute, we just sit there, listening to Nick hum as he pokes around his storage closet. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Bridge was supposed to be at a Tech Crew meeting in ten minutes. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tab: ©©©©©©©© Ten minutes later, Tab was resting on Bridge’s shoulder in the waiting room, talking and crying through a mouth full of cotton while the receptionist pretended not to look at them. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes we stopped, chests heaving, to listen. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

After a minute or two, the smell of smoke wafted out the open back door. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rukia spoke jackrabbit fast to jam in as many women leaders in her two minutes as she could. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe I need a few extra minutes away from Mom’s office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I got here a few minutes ago,” I say. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was about the worst thing I could've done, because the minute I started to laugh I thought I was going to vomit. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She said that dad had just called again, and they should be home in thirty minutes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta broke away from us and ran off the minute she spotted her friends from last year. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I lay quietly for a few minutes, until I couldn’t stand it any longer. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

After several minutes of quietly waiting, a man who had been standing in line with everyone else proclaimed himself the bus driver and asked everyone to follow him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

With levels like hers, he said, she could still have one any minute. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After they were gone, Dr. Philobosian waited a full five minutes before stepping out from behind the drapes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Wait a minute," snapped Tom, "I want to ask Mr. Gatsby one more question." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Outside the sky was clear, but icy gusts of wind were buffeting our barracks every few minutes, sending fresh dust puffs up through the floorboards. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not for a minute forget that I have sneaked into this country. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are driving around in the rain in San Francisco, getting our last- minute errands done before we leave for the capital this afternoon to petition for Papa’s release. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drying cost ten cents for ten minutes, but it took twenty cents worth of minutes to dry everything. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A two-liter bottle of water was enough to keep the water wall’s music going for about fifteen minutes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The nearer acres of rock flowers fluttered and for half a minute the breeze blew cool on their faces. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

After a minute of uncertainty, a seventeen-year-old boy with strawberry blond hair stood on his chair and said something to his choir-mates in Swedish. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was so cold inside the tent that for the first few minutes the audience was shrouded in a cloud of its own breath. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their plan became this: he would come to America the minute he graduated. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The princess scoffs, then glares at her mother, turning redder by the minute. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later Beth returns covered in pink lotion, clutching a prescription. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“She won’t ever call a number that didn’t answer. She’s probably dialing other houses in town right now! And here I sit Wait a minute!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken his wife all of ten minutes to decide that they would adopt, and her enthusiasm for life then immediately returned. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Within a minute of the zeppelin’s hitting the ground it was a mass of twisted metal, a pall of smoke, and a few scraps of fluttering fire. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t been walking more than three or four minutes when there was a noise in the near distance. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, I arrived, soaking wet and shivering, at my stop. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It might have been an hour, but it could have been twenty minutes. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

My arms were punching the water like it was a person and my legs were going a mile a minute to try to get back to the shore. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while she got up and said, “I will make another egg for you, three minutes only—how the English like it. This one is cold now.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But if he let go, let the words stop for a minute, he was lost. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He claimed he could break into a car, disconnect the alarm, and hot-wire the engine, all in less than a minute. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

You’d spend a good five minutes looking at her face, getting to know her as a person. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And the two of them went at it like that for ten minutes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It takes thirty minutes for the drug to work. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Mr. Shephard comes over with a big grin. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Press a button and have it delivered to me in a silver parachute in minutes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We find a bench and watch the dancers for a few minutes until Izzi nudges me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As he later looked back on it, it seemed that the minute one black player got hurt there was another to take over. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter. It’s behind me now and I just won’t think about it another minute.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Margo grabbed hold of my shirt, whispered “Back in a minute” in my ear, and then climbed out the window. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And for about ten or fifteen minutes there in the car, I felt great. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After five minutes of perfect quiet, the same sequence repeats itself three more times, after which he’s presumably lulled himself back to sleep for a while. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We get there in under a minute, and Uriah flips on a light switch. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It is difficult for me to sit still for more than twenty minutes at a stretch, so I used to interrupt my tanning sessions with walks to the pier. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, well...look who’s outside,” her mother said breezily as they stepped out of the house ten minutes later. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"If that’s what you want,” Dad said, "we’ll plan it that way. Excuse me a minute while I make a note of it.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did they recoil in horror and say, “Wait a minute, we've got to halt the process, or at least slow it down until we can get a handle on how to prevent these effects”? Nope. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aaron was fussy, so Ivy barely saw her mother for ten minutes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They stared at each other for over a minute. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later the boat dropped back under the horizon, and the sky clouded over fast. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three minutes forces both of us not to delay, waver. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And then he glanced at the clock on my wall and said, “Looks like we only have a few minutes left.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After a minute the door opens, footsteps come in, there is breathing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are one of her specialties, something her guests have come to expect, handed to them on small plates within minutes of their arrival. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a minute she was glad she hadn’t. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thus they wandered for some five minutes, standing still, listening, clanking, crouching, creeping, peering, walking on tiptoe, and occasionally making a chance swipe behind their hacks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small children refused to leave their mothers’ sides and screeched the minute one of the white-shirted men came near them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think this will blow over in 5 minutes?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they make it through security with just five minutes until boarding starts. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long—twenty minutes, maybe thirty—before Luke seemed in his right mind, calm and able to prop himself up. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Or, ‘If I have to sit five more minutes in this traffic jam, I’ll simply explode’?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Finally, after I don’t know how many minutes, the line of actors onstage stepped back and the curtain closed in front of them. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth and I let the other girls pass, and in a minute we’re alone in the foyer. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It had been more than thirty minutes since they were pulled over. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

So he watched as the mosquito patiently probed his hand with the cutting part of her proboscis, then sucked his blood for over a minute before flying off. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The coolest part about the hotel was that we could just dial the front desk on the phone, order any food we wanted, and in a few minutes they’d bring it up to us. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of racing madly, we came to a new block. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We glared at each other for a minute, until Art coughed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She had just gotten home from work a few minutes before and had started on dinner by dumping a brick of frozen peas into a glass bowl. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She was up there for a few minutes before she realized what the problem was. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It inserts these minute and stiletto-sharp mouth parts into the outer cells of leaves and evergreen needles and extracts the chlorophyll. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was an empty minute before she came right out with it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I came to the conclusion that the whole business at twenty-three minutes to one was a comedy played for my benefit! Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa hadn’t practiced his driving but for a few minutes before church let out, so he wasn’t all that sure he could remember where the foot brake was or how much gas to feed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I can hear a chorus of voices shouting, Wait a minute! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited ten or so minutes, just to be safe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The Doors are in use. Twelve minutes, and they will open.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

With the little light cranked up to 100percent—because there’s no way I’m going in there with it lower—my guess is I’ll have all of ten minutes to look around. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were closed for twenty minutes or so, and she was not quite asleep, when suddenly, from very close by, there came a resounding crash that shook the ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Would you rather have the paparazzi follow you around every minute of your life or never have anyone speak to you again? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We only had to read for fifteen minutes a night, but the past four days I’d read for twenty at least. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adèle and Pilot—ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His face had a strange elasticity: It would be slack and expressionless one minute, only to twist suddenly into a gaping, oversize grin that distorted his features and exposed a mouthful of horsy teeth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t happen in the five minutes Genie thought it would. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Is that how you enter a room?” she asked the minute I came in. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It took her another forty minutes on foot to reach the little house on Winslow, and by the time she got there she knew something was wrong. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He kicked hard with his feet, and thrashed hard with his tail, and in a minute or two he climbed back aboard the schooner, cold and wet but quite unharmed. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Wait a minute—he took off his shirt! Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But right this minute, Danny also had his mouth full of food at the other end of the line. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bite takes anywhere from a few minutes to an hour or so to change a person. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I would take fifteen minutes before I began my warm-up to focus on my breathing and my thoughts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I text Emery to see if she wants to meet up for coffee, and she texts back pretty quickly that she'll be there in fifteen minutes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be back soon. Give me ten minutes. If you don’t hear from me by then...Never mind. I’ll be fine. Just try not to kill each other while I’m down there.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t face going back to my empty room yet, so a few minutes later I find myself in Beth’s doorway. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He even managed to minimize the inconvenience, finding a class ten minutes from his country house. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Stopping for a minute, he strained to hear any movement from the cave, but no sound came. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute, eveiyone had seemed to figure out where they were supposed to go, except for us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We all stand there for a minute in our dresses and tuxes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, he said suddenly: “Kath, can we stop? I’m sorry, I need to get out a minute.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, but that’s actually progress if I’m not checking it every five minutes. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

About ten minutes into class, off comes the right sneaker. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

That was, of course, when an hour was up, only he didn’t have an hour; only forty minutes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her brothers and sisters wouldn’t wake up, and besides, this would only take a couple of minutes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In about two minutes there was a whole stream of people walking in, checking out my hands and Karen’s sketch. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They flew in silence for a minute or two. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, he starts playing with his phone, and I watch the beautiful lights reflected on the water. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The minute I opened the door and looked up, I saw that the meat was gone. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute—you would’ve gone all the way back to South America without even saying hello?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Henry lit one of the Camels and made a show of smoking for a few minutes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hidalgo went to the kitchen and came back a minute later with a glass of water that I instantly gulped down. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Try to stay calm, Annabel. I’ll be back in two minutes to lead you out there. I just want to check that my music is ready onstage. Now please line up by section, okay?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nok rolled a pebble back and forth across the dirt with the toe of her shoe, trying not to count the minutes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At that moment I was just arriving at the tents—probably no more than fifteen minutes in front of the first members of Beidleman’s group. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She could tell when they entered the tall grass a minute after she did, because the grass moved hissingly beneath their feet and a startled grasshopper leaped wildly away. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes sir—” The policeman waited nervously for about a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the room, and when he came back a minute later with Mrs. Coulter, Lyra was on her feet, too excited to sit. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a secret,” she answers and then closes her eyes, her sweet elixir doing its job for another fifteen minutes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When the car wash started, I thought I’d have a minute to lose myself in the loud darkness of it all. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he still hadn’t come after twenty minutes, I went looking for him. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If you can hang over the chasm for five minutes, I will forget your cowardice. If you can’t, I will not allow you to continue initiation.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand, then. If it was all true—all his stories— and if he knew I was like him, why did he keep it a secret until the last minute of his life?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“He’ll be awake any moment. He seldom sleeps longer than a minute or two.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He remained that way for a few minutes, until something caught his attention. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dari was supposed to be there already, and the minutes kept ticking by, and fluttery panic bloomed in my chest. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One of the priests who taught at the school turned up at our classroom door and talked to our teacher for a minute, then started taking students from the classroom three at a time. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes after leaving the dock, the boat was over the deepest part of the lake. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes Angelo appeared at my side, with an offer of help. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She would give Herbert seven minutes before she would lift her head. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frito and me walked along the sidewalk for a minute, not saying nothing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Just sit a minute and take hold of yourself,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could stop her she was out the window and a few minutes later she returned with a botde about two-thirds full, and a lemon. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

You would never know that two minutes ago she’d been crying. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Lefty came out to meet his wife. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I need a minute,” he said, raising a hand to keep them away. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It seems every five minutes there’s another press conference. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And so, a few minutes later, it was Reynie who knocked on the study door. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I forgot — it was the custard creams we hexed —” Within a minute, however, Neville had molted, and once his feathers had fallen off, he reappeared looking entirely normal. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Arrived about five minutes after you did. If there’s anything you need, Mr. Potter, don’t hesitate to ask.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

How did I think I was going to survive in a factory, where each minute is identical to the next one, and not just each day? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had five minutes of sympathy, then I was like “Man, it happens. Life goes on.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of kiss that makes me lose track of everything, and so it may be hours or minutes by the time we break apart. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A little bit of spark that makes me feel like we’re the only people in the world for ten minutes. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A full minute passed without either of us saying a word. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The last clue should pop up on the Wonder Dome in sixteen minutes.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

With about ten minutes until the 9:30 train left, Garfield and Blaine sat in the carriage a bit longer, finishing their conversation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boat came nearer, the searchlight sweeping to left and right, almost on course to hit the island, but at the last minute it turned a little to starboard and moved past. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we should step outside. Got a few minutes?” he asked. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She yanks up my laundry bag and, at the last minute, scoops up the diary and stuffs it inside. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Their hearts were pumping at nearly two hundred beats per minute now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Sit down, sweet. I’ll have you good as new in a minute.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bekhir gave us ten minutes to prepare for the ride to town. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At ten minutes to noon, Roy and Beatrice arrived; this time she rode the handlebars and he pedaled, the camera stowed safely in his backpack. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Located just five kilometers from the fairgrounds, it took us only thirty minutes to reach it by cab. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the doctor whisked open the curtain by my hospital bed and said, “So I heard we have a ballerina in today!” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As he dropped the memo pad into his drawer and opened up his newspaper again, Mr. Larson said, “Please be sure you’re both back here five minutes before the last bell.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

If he could have thought of any other way to reach the Science Museum in the seven minutes that he had left, he would have taken it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

None of the others leave, even though they were all finished twenty minutes ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We sat outside together in silence for a few minutes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“They start it, and they can’t see any of these expressions. Thirty-five minutes later, they can see them all. What that says is that this is an accessible skill.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the rain pours over us, washing away the dirt and mud. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes more vans and trucks came, and the loading was finally completed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I had four visitors and they had come a great distance, the authorities extended the visiting time from a half an hour to forty- five minutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fifteen minutes before we saw it again, flying serenely and very high. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a minute to realize what she was referring to, but before I could respond Denna had moved on. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tad ducked his head back under the table that he’d dived under the minute the building had begun to shake and the sprinklers had started pouring water. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Take it easy. There’s six minutes to the bell, cowgirl.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, I saw the receding glow of the minister’s lantern like a distant firefly in the black night. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We sat out there in silence for a minute and then Gus said, “I wish we had that swing set sometimes.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

After fifteen or twenty minutes, the usher returned. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes ago, this monster nearly ripped Luke’s arm off! So you’ve put Tara on it?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With ninety minutes left before the game, Davis granted the order. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me too,” he said after a minute, and I didn’t need to look back to know that he was crying, too. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Baboons could destroy her entire food store in a matter of minutes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week ago it was all about living, just living, minute by minute. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His camp, distinguished by a huge Starbucks Coffee promotional banner suspended from a house-size block of granite, was situated just five minutes’ walk down the glacier from ours. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes he tried to enjoy the scenery running past his window, then the city man’s boredom with nature’s repetition overtook him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had contests to see who could catch the most fish in ten minutes, and the younger lawyer won with an average of 2.1 fish a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Okay, get suited up and meet me on the court for warm-ups in three minutes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My daughters happen to have a lesson in ten minutes. Just how long are you going to be?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

After a while, maybe twenty minutes, she stood up again. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

All he could think was how Dimple was going to feel in a few minutes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It is 7:43 A.M. and she has made the seventeen-mile journey from Havana to Santa Teresa del Mar in thirty-four minutes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spending an hour with my best friend, Thomas, video-chatting last night had seemed to fly by in a minute. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I do so want you to be good! Please, please be good and ...” Two minutes later the Voice and the soma vapour had produced their effect. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached Claiborne in a few minutes and immediately saw what they were looking for: a fan boat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I checked my watch: ten minutes after one. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, some twenty-five firemen arrived and, using axes and other tools, cut their way into the firehouse. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I stood at the counter for a minute, trying not to scream. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After two minutes, he takes a closer look at my head and says, “Get your coat on. I’m taking you to the hospital.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I knelt and scratched behind her ears for a minute, and while I did, I looked into her soulful brown eyes, wishing she could tell me what to do. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Can we go now? “In a minute,” I said. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for those two minutes we just stared at each other, and I watched the blue in her eyes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax dropped by a half hour ago and was granted a few minutes of Lincoln’s time. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It took about ten minutes of this to get him to the house, up the porch steps, and into Joseph and David’s room, which fortunately is on the ground floor next to the living room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She lay there for a minute, trying to catch her breath, and then she sat up and scanned the water. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He squinted, trying to see minute specks that might be people. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You are eating ten minutes before Mass? Ten minutes before Mass?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes it looked like he had his second wind, but he’s slowing down. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes all four bags were on the floor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Like, why are lunch periods thirty-seven minutes long instead of fifty? Or twenty-two? Or whatever?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the sound of it, I pray, Dear God, give me the strength to get through the next ten minutes without dissolving into a pool of lustful preteen sweat. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had never considered what she was doing those last minutes of her life, why she was in the closet, what they had fought about. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was in here a minute ago, but he went.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A full minute passed without any words between them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

After endless minutes of trudging through the storm, we stop. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, Miele was on a table in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, awaiting angioplasty to unclog his artery—a procedure that many cardiologists say has become the gold standard in heart attack treatment. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t let me go for a full minute, until I said, “Dad, it’s okay.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now, in the months leading up to Rio, I remained determined to enjoy every minute. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Maniac produced his certificate for conquering Cobble’s Knot, and twenty minutes later the young runaways were at tacking a large pizza with pepperoni. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of minutes later, there’d be a knock on the door and I’d straighten my shirt and let her in. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you do a sweep of the city? Check the defenses. See who’s left in Olympus. Meet Annabeth and me back here in thirty minutes.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then he addressed it and bought a stamp and held the card close to him for a minute before dropping it in the mailbox. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother wants you a minute. Like a good boy. Then you can come back. Benjy.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Emily Webb didn’t go on until ten minutes into the play, so the girl handling hair and makeup had time to put Via’s hair up in a twist and do a quick makeup job. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They all sat in silence for several more minutes, and then the Huntsman stood and walked away. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bluebirds fluttered high up in the beams where they had nests, and Panky spent a few minutes scraping up their droppings with a trowel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded gratefully and let her switch into the oar seat, but twenty minutes later I asked for it back again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Standing on the pavement she gazed at him for a long minute, and then her glance explored the wood behind him for the Waiter. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She’s so happy; I feel guilty for dreading every minute of this. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He forced them along for a few minutes until they were well out of sight and, hopefully, out of smell of the tunnel entrance. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That was for a few minutes. What about the rest of the night?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At first I thought he was telling us to go, saying good-bye, even the minute we got there. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I hope you and your partner are using your time wisely. You only have twenty minutes left.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Then leave us alone for a few minutes. Your boy’s a good kid. We know that. We’re only trying to help.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She’d begin mixing a tincture, then a minute later couldn’t remember which ingredients she’d added, so that the whole batch had to be tossed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jay had been staring at Susie for the last minute without speaking, quiet anger on his face. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Can we stop for a minute? I need to rest. I’m sorry.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I’m so exhausted, I’m out within minutes of hitting the pillow. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Thirty-two more minutes until Ellis and I could look away from each other. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In an instant, my fierce bargaining cousin is back to the sweet girl I’ve spent every minute of the last few weeks with—and begun to love like an older sister. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The minute he said it, I felt my cheeks go red. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She returned a few minutes later with a large pot of codfish and ackee, the official dish of Jamaica, and a large helping of grits. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“See, it’s alive,” he said, and right that minute, at a window next door to us, a woman yelled to her son down on the street. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t take her five minutes to find out who squawked.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I woke up ten minutes before the meeting was supposed to start and ran to the showers. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chubs had the laptop at his side, checking every few minutes for a message from his parents, or rechecking the address he had found for Jack’s dad. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One minute I feel okay, and then all of a sudden my energy plummets for no reason at all. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

All these rules entered our household the minute I was allowed to leave home for the long walk to and from school. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They are scared, looking at the back door every ten minutes, afraid they’ll get caught talking to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The searchlight shone directly at them for seconds that felt like minutes, but then it swung away and the engine noise changed as the steersman opened the throttle and moved off along the flood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

To understand the basic outline of this technique, imagine trying to deduce the shape of a minute three-dimensional object—a cube, say. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the voices of my dogs were silent for a few minutes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Noah," she said, "run down to the bus and tell Mrs. Korshak that I will be along in a minute. I have a message for her." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He can make each face a solid color in less than four minutes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone in Limerick knows these houses are old and might fall down at any minute. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The next time I glance over, a few minutes later, Ben has a hand tight around his crotch, the fabric of the gown bunched up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The minute I see him, I ask Jeff what movie he told his mom he saw. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Let’s not panic when Aaron wouldn’t stay asleep for more than thirty minutes at a time during the night. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Oh, yeah, them Tanners might have holt a me and Chester now, but see if we do one minute of work again. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

They stay with me for minutes after I wake up and I luxuriate in them, but I forget them soon. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes left—time enough for Leon to perform, to play one of his games. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight minutes later, a new edition of The Hourly Radio was on sale in the streets of London. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, every few minutes he’d look at Luke’s carrots and shake his head. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But when another strong earthquake hit within a few minutes of the first, the students were sent home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later Captain Brannon stood in front of Bull’s desk. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, we heard another gunshot from behind us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just saw her for a couple of minutes when I went back to get something to eat. But she would hardly let me touch my food.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could’ve used a few extra minutes to work on my own poem. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I dozed for a minute, I was awakened by Miss Havisham’s cries, and by her running at me with all that height of fire above her head. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

If they just keep moving, they will pass me and be gone in a minute. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But in ten minutes, there would be no escape. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I am. It’s something I wanted to talk to you about. You have a minute?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later: two guns to his head. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The girl was silent for a few minutes before she asked, “Do you think she meant that stuff about motherhood?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The kids needed a few things their mom didn’t pack, so we’re getting everything together. Just five more minutes, okay?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They walked for a few minutes before she remembered its first words. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Five minutes in, I have ten points to his two, and I basically gave him those. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

During the final five minutes of humanities, she says, “Only one week until Socrates week! Are you all ready?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Moss heard the water running; he heard the thump of a cabinet closing; he heard the gentle whistle minutes later as the kettle began to boil. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had no idea how he’d had the energy to interrogate Andrew only a minute before. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

So I look around, and two minutes go by. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes he looks up at me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It would take less than a half hour to get to the Bronx gym and minutes to get into his gear. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a minute to slip off her shoes, then flopped over on the bed and curled up, one hand between her knees, the other slipped under the pillow. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He talked a mile a minute the whole meal. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes for what feels like minutes, and when I open them again, I become hypnotized by the cheetah-print pattern on her leggings, which I hadn’t noticed before. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Brother Jacques used the word “environment” five more times in the next fifteen minutes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a minute later a soldier armed with a rifle came to order Mrs. Coulter out of the airship. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They tried to turn him around, but he told them to just hold on a minute; he wanted to stop home for a quick drink, then he’d go running with them. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of pressing the handful of chewed-up green stuff into the wound, pus begins running down the side of his leg. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the shadow of the wings for a minute until I could get my bearings. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was combing my hair at the time, and she stopped for a minute and her hand got real shaky. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When the door opens a few minutes later, I’m surprised that it’s Dad. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Let’s stop arguing for two minutes in here. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to school twenty-five minutes early that morning. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It takes a few minutes for my heart to return to normal. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I decided I would wait for my father for five minutes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

People were waking earlier, counting days, counting minutes. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later I turned back toward the beach and started walking. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I expect they’ve just been — wait a minute,” said Harry, frowning. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

So far, about three minutes have passed since the broadcast began. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She went out and bought a fancy egg timer that can accurately measure a half minute. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We fall into a peaceful silence for a few minutes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A house that, until a few minutes ago, Axel believed was his—his and Byrd’s, and Frank’s. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She thought it over for a minute or two as she walked and had just decided to ask him, when to her surprise she saw ahead of her a faint glow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

After she had had some sal volatile and sat still for a few minutes, she said the re was nothing he matter with her except a few bruises. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

His father would be the minute he heard about the explosions. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It looked to be a whole lot of lollygagging and a walk that should’ve took ’bout a minute to make ended up taking a whole lot longer, but she knowed what she was doing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The Earth Men were so stunned that they rode the toppling shoulders for a full minute before they began to laugh and shout at each other: “Hey! This is more like it!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can lie here for a few minutes if you like,” she offers. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

We had four minutes to get to our next class, but it took me less than one. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I put on my only decent black dress, I text Lorena to come get me, and she says she and Juanga will be here in five minutes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In another twenty minutes, the two scholars came upon another vantage point. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Dadi was at the table a minute or two later, holding a silver container with an ornate lid. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I let her sit there for a minute because I thought she was napping.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The windows had fogged, and for a minute I did nothing but watch the rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the morning, it was nonstop from the minute Dad came back from the 7-Eleven with three copies of the Baltimore paper. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I told you it was a waste of time. Can’t you stay awake for five minutes? Must you go to sleep on me?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Five minutes, later, in clean T-shirt and jeans, Gerald walked slowly to the kitchen. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you can’t go in there,” she said, looking me up and down as if I had fleas, “but I’ll see if she can come out here for a minute. What’s your name?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later two pigeons came racing in with the news: “Boxer has fallen! He is lying on his side and can’t get up!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I went from catching feelings for Warren to cursing him out in the span of a minute. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He stared around the restaurant a minute before going on. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Entire lifetimes revolved before him while he stood there, dimly aware of the passing minutes, his breath fanning against the glass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When the song ends, I give them a dollar, the equivalent of about ten minutes of sweat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later me and Missy loaded up with them on the wagon heading north.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And why did they stay for only a few minutes at each apartment, were they selling something, collecting information? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it would last for hours, always ending with an “amen,” and they could keep that “amen” going on for five minutes at least. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It only took me about ten minutes to page through the books that were left after the rest of the class descended on the table. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every ten minutes by the small clock built into die dashboard he tried to radio with a simple message: “I need help. Is there anybody listening to me?” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He looks so different,” he says after a long minute, gazing down at the baby Henry on the page and his easy, unfledged sureness. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was but fifteen minutes after that we approached the wharves of our interdicted city. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It takes me only ten minutes to make my way back home. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing? We have to move on in a minute. It’s dangerous here.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It only took the old man about five minutes to get the strings in agreement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Donovan opened his mouth and left it that way for a full minute. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“If the fog lifts one half minute, we can see it.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, about five minutes after I got there, Henry and Savanna were standing next to me, literally hovering over me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He went out of the room calling "Ewing!" and returned in a few minutes accompanied by an embarrassed, slightly worn young man with shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blonde hair. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I press on Mae’s doorbell, and a minute later, she opens the door. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was just two thirty, forty-five minutes before anybody but me expected her to be out. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In about forty-five minutes, I went back down. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I exit Lake Shore—six minutes to go—he's slurring his words and bawling, going on and on about Facebook and the death of polite society and whatever. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Outside again, he spent a bungling five minutes sloppily tying the cords holding his suitcase together, and, when that was more or less accomplished, he hoisted the suitcase with a grunt and began walking west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed underwater for what felt like a minute but was probably a few seconds before we were ripped upward again, this time inside the wave. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped out of bed, too, and we got in the car and raced to the hospital, which luckily was only fifteen minutes away. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I gave her a nice mangrove snapper that I caught, and she had it cleaned and cooking over the flames in five minutes flat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He sat next to the drowned man with his enormous paws neatly propped together on the dead man’s lap, his tail wagging a mile a minute. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

For a minute Pearl allowed herself to fantasize. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In a minute I heard him try again, and that time I heard the bed creak as he pulled himself back onto it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was ten minutes before Haldar emerged from his shop, impassive apart from the red in his face. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

None of us was able to finish eating on the first day, but within a week we could eat any food in a minute. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After a minute Luke answered politely, “A struggle between good and evil for the soul of Nell. I suppose I will have to be God, however.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I took a quick peek. It looks like someone made tribute videos for a number of past coaches. The videos are short—only ten or fifteen minutes long each.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If I ever managed to get to heaven after everything I’d done, I hoped I would get just a few minutes for a private conference with God. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes, he puts the birdseed away and we walk back to the house. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The session drags on for a torturous eternity that is just another twenty minutes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I said nothing for a minute, staring at him a long time, trying to memorize every inch of his cocoa brown face; his wide shoulders; his thick, black hair. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He propped the rifle on the dead and useless arm that had been so full of life a minute ago, and sighted with stolid concentration: one shot...two...three, and each found its man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of that, Cari finally latched on to the nipple, tugging at it greedily. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I scrub the spot on my right foot for at least a minute, but when I splash water over it, the spot is still there, so pale it almost glows. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The only one who had not lost for a single minute the awareness that she was alive and rotting in her wormhole was the implacable and aging Amaranta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At the end of the twenty minutes, after arguing for most of it, our group barely manages to complete our supply list. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Most mornings they’d argue for a few minutes, then Tyler would surrender his pencil, his shoulders slumping as he pulled on his boots and welding gloves. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It made me so mad for a minute it kind of blinded me. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took her about five minutes to finish a five-digit number and by then she was tuckered out. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She always walks with me down the halls chattering a million miles a minute. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I went on along like this for around fifteen minutes covering a good mile and maybe more, when I saw a patch of hemlocks bordering the left-hand side of the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just give ’em a couple of minutes,” said Armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m all right,” he said after a minute. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just want to look in the cottages. For a minute. That’s all.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We’re safe for a little while,” Vann said, “because they don’t expect to see us and it takes them a few minutes to react.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We try and eat slowly, but we're both so hungry were done in a couple of minutes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It took him fifteen minutes to negotiate the stairs, but he wound up safely in the office after having entered from the outside. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My mom started me on a strict vitamin regimen and refused to let me be alone, even for a few minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was something chilling in the thought, something a little melancholy, and looking at the clock I saw that five more minutes had gone by. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Less than a minute after studying the film, he seemed convinced this was not TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe not right now, not this minute—it was the middle of the school year—-but I could wait until I finished eleventh grade. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another minute of scratching, and all three completed the examination. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A man in a green khaki suit, carrying a scuffed briefcase, stared at them for a minute before he let himself into the house next door. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep her talking out there, Will. I’ve got to...oh, God, just a minute more.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, a few minutes later, I saw him straighten, climb in behind the wheel, slam the door and drive off. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men around me were quiet for a minute after I spoke, and then someone else said yes. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later she comes up the path from Cuddledown again. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

With me living forty-five minutes away, Tumblr is supposed to be sacred ground where our friendship is cemented. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe she could get away now, if only for a few minutes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about it for a few more minutes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We were allowed to browse for the first fifteen minutes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes they’d be open to the entire horde of Bruce’s people, open to them charging aboard and ending it all. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My mother was born ten minutes before my aunt Julia, who seemed to have become some sort of a recluse that summer, rarely leaving her house and, according to my mom, “stinking to high heaven.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

This was their second visit in ten minutes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The two satyrs and two children charged recklessly through the woods for a few more minutes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Tuesday, April 29, but they’d only had him for a minute. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Don and I played in many tournaments, and even if he won, he would come back within a few minutes, challenging me to another match. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are quiet for a few minutes then, except for the sound of our feet hitting the pavement. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid hung up on Brave Orchid before the minutes she had paid for expired. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for another minute, just to be sure I hadn’t misread Day’s exit. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The first bell rang, meaning five minutes to class, and like Pavlov’s dogs, people started rushing around, filling up the hallways. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Please. It will only take a few minutes.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She spent some minutes making adjustments in order to achieve a natural chaotic look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He mistakenly opened the valve instead of closing it, however, and ten minutes later all my oxygen was gone. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later she nodded, almost like she was talking to herself. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t believe for one minute that he had a sore throat. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute or so, he gave up and turned to sit with his back against the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The doctor said he would send a chopper that very minute but Mother said no. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lily was letting the water run and run and it had already been twenty minutes. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“The minute I stepped onto this belt thing, it started moving.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Annie, can you wait here for a few minutes? There’s one last thing I have to take care of,” I said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need much talking into, but at the last minute, Patria desisted. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood out there for a couple of minutes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes we heard them pile back into their truck and restart the engine, and then, at last, they were gone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

One day when I brought his beer, he said, “Red, hold still a minute.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was lighter than air from the minute I was born,” Olive said proudly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Only minutes from the bus junction, my brothers pointed to a long building, many times larger than our home and all of the Mahasreh houses put together. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It's a thirteen-month mission, most of it spent many light- minutes away from Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the last minute the gunman wouldn’t go through with it, and after being picked up on a robbery charge, he told authorities about the plan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At the end of the minute, he tested it with his finger. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Obinze called her at Ranyinudo’s house; she would arrive minutes before he was due to call and sit by the gray rotary phone, waiting for it to ring. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Instead he got up to take a walk around die cay, saying he’d be bade in a few minutes. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

To avoid tiring themselves, the Boss decided they should make a brief halt every fifteen minutes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The distant rumble of the waterfall grew louder with each passing minute, and then a slash of white appeared through the trees. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He look up and I look at him and for a minute we just be looking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Sam, give your mother and me five minutes,” he finally said. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

After about five minutes we would be wrestling over some detail of protocol or else something would send me into gales of laughter. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, man. Be in front of the house in five minutes." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each passing minute Ms. Bethune’s face sagged and her eyes filled with tears. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It would only take a minute or so. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was an incredible mystery to Bernabe why people did not go off their rockers every five minutes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Run the defogger a minute to make sure you can see out the back.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A minute later, barely hiding the glee in her voice, Spike asks, “What’s that smell?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a minute, Celeste took the paper towel Tab held out and blotted her face with it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

After some minutes’ walking, they came to a larger clearing in front of a rock that rose sheer from the ground. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s good. I’m only going to wear it for twenty minutes, right? We can make it work.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She tiptoed out, and in a minute there came to my ears—and to Grandpa’s, I could tell—the sound of piano music. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Five minutes before each bell, he’d rise like the dead and shuffle on to the next class. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Nately bounded out of bed after a few minutes to announce his good fortune to his friends at the top of his voice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He went out and sat on a cement block and wished, desperately, that he could go home, if only for a minute, to make sure that nothing had happened to them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Greenberg dragged himself back to the offices with Smith’s counterdemand: No one was to show up at his barn asking to examine the horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask this because James’s car isn’t in the lot, and he could be back any minute, and I want to see him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A certain somebody lies awake for about fifteen minutes, listening to the sounds of the night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after Angela left with the hikers, Jacob sauntered over to take her place by my side. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Tobin? Chop-chop. I’m in a bit of a rush. The doors upstairs will be open in thirteen minutes. Mrs. Tobin?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Once I leave my room, it will be only minutes until I'm in front of the crowd, the cameras, all of Panem. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hatsue sat in the dark of the kitchen, where she waited for seventy-five minutes uneasily; it was raining outside, a windy night, and the car was gone from the garage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Whoever’s in charge doesn’t know why she dared to tell the truth a few minutes ago, but they’re reminding her whose lives are at stake. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

That was always good for three and a half minutes before they caught on. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was over in less than fifteen minutes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That night, Yoyo watched him from the upstairs hall window, where she'd retreated the minute she heard his car pull up in front of the house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Keeping to the shadows and taking his time, Sammy advanced to the strategic oak and remained concealed in the shadows for over five minutes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have nothing to worry about. We are merely relocating you. You and your wife and your son have ten minutes. You must each pack one suitcase.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He swore he just wanted to have a friendly chat about the situation, but the minute I stepped inside he started shouting at me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” he urges, motioning toward the glass elevator, “fifteen minutes. No one will notice.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They can judge it; it is well to be accurate, and every minute is precious. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Fern would be all right for two minutes without me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes till the count, gentlemen,” I called loudly. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whenever possible, he stole a few minutes on Friday just to stand close to her and hear her voice, soft and smooth as suede, assuring him that he was a “neat kid.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A few minutes passed, various Griever sounds penetrating the walls every ten to twenty seconds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I worked hard today and they praised me, only to start picking on me again five minutes later. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to be on the road to Shadbush Crossing almost twenty minutes ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

After a minute she said, Haley doesn’t either. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

About ten quiet, painful minutes later, we pulled into my driveway—in her car, of course, because I was still too lazy and disorganized and pathetic to get my license. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, a small, gray-haired man in a plaid jacket came out to greet us. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I lit a candle, set and wound the clock, and sat for a few minutes thinking what I must do tomorrow. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

About five minutes passed, then she came in wrapped in a towel. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darwin imagined that the cells of all organisms produce minute particles containing hereditary information—gemmules, he called them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of searching, he found a familiar figure leaning over the edge, staring down into the black water below. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We listen to volley after volley, about three minutes apart. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At that time, it felt like heaven had opened and everything was clear, except the pain was getting worse by the minute. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

By everyone’s best estimates, she had been outside for approximately twenty minutes when the fire chief opened the door, and in the snow for perhaps two. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I staggered out of the bathroom ten, fifteen minutes later, Astelle was leaning against the wall, one leg tucked up under a short plaid skirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I thought for a minute and explained that at first I had fired a single shot and then, a few seconds later, the other four. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes after settling down for the night, wind-driven debris from the fire ignited the dry grass nearby, forcing them to abandon their things and retreat farther north. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’ll be empty and I can sit there for a few minutes in peace, surrounded by the comforting smell of oil paints. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes there was a little knock on the outside of the shed and my grandma came walking in. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, when I need to leave for school and Charlie starts whining that she’s hungry, my page looks exactly the same. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Go on out to the barn. I’ll come in a minute.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I knew Vonetta was alive and would be home any minute, I could enjoy the fact that there would soon be one more of us. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

What just minutes ago seemed like a wealth of time—eight whole days—is no time at all. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A heavy rain followed, with thunder and lightning that lasted for less than fifteen minutes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

For a good three minutes, it was dead silent. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute the universe is a million billion miles across and growing fast. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In another few minutes, what would she think of him? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“So,” she said after nearly a minute of complete silence. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Luke didn’t want to talk about the scale for another minute, let alone the next hour. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Jamie nodded to the man and said, “Just a minute, please.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven briefly debated what to do, but she knew Valley had a few minutes at least; Thorn had almost no time before she would be taken away forever. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Grandma Sands looked at her for a minute. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been like that for a minute now though. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At the hospital, Luis jumped out of the truck and came back not a minute later with a nurse, who took one look at Maribel and called for a gurney. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They’d been meant to meet on the landing with fifteen minutes to spare before the hour. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Sala? She left a few minutes ago, didn’t you see? It’s after curfew. She was afraid of getting into trouble.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And the recording goes on for about three minutes. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

These things were tied together with a bit of dirty string from the corset of a woman who had given birth to twins after only ten minutes of labor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Price Is Right is on in a minute.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The four of us took the Buick south on the expressway, following the road out of Chicago, exiting about forty minutes later near a sterile-looking shopping plaza. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At three a.m., he went downstairs to eat cereal because that’s what Mark always did when he couldn’t sleep, and that’s where Mark found him fifteen minutes later. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Now they had seven minutes and fifty-two seconds. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I only have ten minutes until visiting hours are over when I arrive at Nita’s room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The sea became rougher, and every few minutes a wave splashed into the boat. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“She was supposed to come straight down from the hospital. She left ten minutes before I did. Where is she? Where could she have gone?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She was quiet to the point of invisibility, and after a few minutes, I forgot she was there. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We both chew on this for a minute. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had been at least three minutes since I made that joke, and he was still holding on to it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I just want to look and see if we can find any street signs. Nothing’s going to happen if we walk down this driveway for a minute!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Stanton, who has witnessed the execution with other officials, lets the bodies dangle for twenty minutes before pronouncing that he is satisfied the condemned are dead. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She takes them without saying anything and we sit quietly apart and eat for a minute. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

As I recall, neither of them said anything of note throughout the whole interview, which lasted perhaps three or four minutes, and they left sobbing just as they had arrived. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know I have to sing, but I didn’t expect it to be in the first five minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, they pulled up in front of the apartment complex. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their answers ranged from thirty seconds to five minutes, with the average answer two minutes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

For the past few minutes they had forgotten that they were stowaways on the school bus and had behaved as they always did at home. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expected the room to burst into flames any minute. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It had taken him thirty minutes to come get me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I wondered for a minute if it was a public day and she was showing the rooms. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes his voice would rise again as he called out a line or two, indicating where everyone should be in the prayer book. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

"Took me one minute, twenty seconds. I'm out of shape." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m shooting a fiftieth anniversary party this evening, and I needed to be out the door five minutes ago.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

It was a long time since I had eaten trout like that, five minutes from water to pan. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched her for perhaps five minutes, but the mosquitoes were chewing us up, so we withdrew and returned to our camp feeling considerably elated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes, my feet move to the beat of the drums, my arms sway to the rhythm of the song, and my heart is light and joyful. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not five minutes to spare even for your friends Miss Fairfax and Miss Bates? How unlucky! Miss Bates’s powerful, argumentative mind might have strengthened yours.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

They mingled around, bickering petulantly for a minute; tempers died; the game commenced again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I died this minute it would go on like that, placid and helpful, like an electronic afterlife. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I let them cool for a few minutes, then started tasting them one recipe at a time. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes late to the first meeting of a class. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes of watching me pretend to wait, the receptionist asks if she can help me with something. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

With her luck, it would collapse in the next two minutes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I dreamed I was flying with Maddie, in the five minutes or however short a time it was when there was a lull next door and I actually fell asleep. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Mama will be back in precisely thirty-eight minutes, and if things continue the way they’ve been going, this visit will have been a total waste. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“And then you just wanna turn them every couple of minutes.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I waited outside for a few minutes on the treeless road, wondering whether I should go in. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He gave me a long look that seemed to stretch several minutes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The list of things she didn’t know about her grandfather seemed to get longer by the minute. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, she knocked and came in. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The backups need to be somewhere safe where they can’t be reached for at least thirty minutes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

One minute they were talking about the crazy coincidence of having met about eight years ago at some random wedding. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Smith waited a couple of minutes, then rapped his baton on a gate and shouted, “Lock in!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In flying 1,890 miles, the farthest anyone had ever flown, in 15 hours and 57 minutes, they had become the first to conquer the Atlantic nonstop. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We reached Cabin 27 a few minutes later. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It took me about fifteen minutes to write “I will not talk in class” fifty times, and so I often came home at four o’clock. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the emergency was over and I went back in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we drove a few minutes, much of the landscape seemed to change. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The most obvious was that a number of engines and dozens of firefighters were sent on a wild-goose chase and did not get to the fire for many minutes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute, Darkness loomed over him and said, “What was your question?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t as though I don’t know where you are. Resurface this minute and apologise.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The minutes turn into hours until I reach Ro Leap. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people primed to be rude eventually interrupted—on average after about five minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Soon the barn caught fire, and within minutes the corner of the barn blazed brightly. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of minutes, the soldiers come and lead the children away while we watch in quiet despair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if I’m really lucky, Mrs. van D. calls me to account five minutes later and lays down the law as well! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to be alone for a minute so I stood there and flushed the toilet. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first is that a pretty reliable figure for the time light takes to travel from the sun to the Earth was available seventeen years after Rømer’s first estimate of eleven minutes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Once I'm out of the airlock, this EVA suit will only last four minutes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

What white kid could hate blacks after spending five minutes in the Beales’ house? Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Fleery,” Lina said when she got to work, “would you have time to come home with me later on today? Just for a minute? I found something I’d like to show you.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And in the past ten minutes, he’d read the thing three times. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He waited a minute, then went On to Philip Lombard's room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

There were cats perched on top of it and cats walking across it, so for a minute I simply stared at it, not recognizing it for what it was—a human form. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laurie looked at her a minute as if he did not quite know what to do with himself, then turned sharply away, saying in a desperate sort of tone, “You’ll be sorry some day, Jo.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, Ben Meecham, eighteen years old, on the brink of manhood, was carried from the Officers’ Club of Ravenel Air Station on the shoulders of his father. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let the boy sleep,” Matt said after a minute. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’ll only take thirty or forty minutes to fly back there. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“What, already? You been gone all of three minutes!” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Canton glanced up as everyone gradually congregated at the corner, like water building against a dam, allowed to flow every few minutes. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

For a minute, I stand there, staring at it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes a trying to breathe and drumming my fingers on the sill, I see the car pull up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Okay, your cab to the bus station is supposed to get here in, like, ten minutes,” Libby says, walking me to my own fence. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The bell meant that the museum was closing in five minutes. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francis ran through the helical theory itself, devoting only a few minutes to our progress with DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got thirty minutes to sculpt a newborn baby’s face,” she says. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She looked at us, first one, then the other—for what seemed minutes. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For a long minute he hovered, his back to the church as the instructive words kept falling around the room, rich with promise, full with warnings. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran out on his mother’s entreaties, calling over his shoulder, “Ten minutes, Ma!” as he pushed open the screen door. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In one game he actually stared at the position for fifty minutes before making a move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he got a place that’s about ten minutes away, or that’s what he said. I guess he was pretty eager to leave.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She shrieked and attempted retaliation, which lasted only a few minutes, both of us sweating and weakened by the thick heat that filled the loft. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“And your father will be locking the tires the minute we get home,” she told us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After another twenty minutes of Sherry and her boyfriend making out, Charlie nudged me and looked at the door. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to find me inside my cave of stuffed animals, so I waited a little more, but even after ten minutes she still didn’t come in after me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were three more messages, sent ten minutes ago. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The doctor’s on a break. She’ll be back in twenty-five minutes,” the clerk said tersely. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the panel at the top of the stairs slides open. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The decision was not final; they could still scratch him at any point up to forty-five minutes before post time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minute we turned onto the road, my heart started pounding and my breathing got shallow. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The second task starts in ten minutes, and Harry Potter —” “Ten minutes?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The office overlooks the sea, and we took a minute to watch the freighters in the harbor, which was ablaze with sunlight. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later they were at Stoke Poges and had started their first round of Obstacle Golf. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, why did we go there?” groaned Hermione after a few minutes’ silence. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the short minutes, Aziz decided it was better for him to be alive, to love Ellie, if not to love her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had been watching Lyra for some minutes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, sweetheart. We’re finishing up these packets. Just give me a few more minutes,” she says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I forgot about it five minutes after we got home. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

As in: Wait a minute— why is the pulchritudinous new girl now talking to my brother? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The chain reaction was going and would continue doubling in power every two minutes until he shut it down. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best part of the whole day, though, was when my gramps’s friend came back to the shed twenty minutes later and handed us seventy-five bucks each, cash. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mindlessly, relentlessly angry every minute of every day. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Ike and Felix wandered in behind him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In my dream, for a minute, things are perfect. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Namba had perished on the South Col, just twenty minutes from shelter, assigned to a summit party, and on May 16 he reached the top without supplemental oxygen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And he said, “Five minutes, OK? That’s all. Then you can go.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“One minute ago I was speaking on the telephone to a colleague in Droitwich. Abruptly, I was obliged to apologize, and terminate the conversation. Now. Who can guess the reason?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In a minute she’s snoring even if he’s still coughing and laughing about the days of his youth when he danced with Angela Sheehan light as a feather in the Wembley Hall. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I thought about that for a minute, and then I told her my better idea. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ziggy was only here for a few minutes, but it was enough to get rid of all of the bad feelings inside me and replace them with warm and fuzzy ones. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The phone had been ringing continuously for three minutes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Next batch is out of the oven in about five minutes,” he told her. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The mouthy man said, “If you look out of that window, you’ll see there’s a welcoming committee gathering in your honor, and it’s growing by the minute.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes he squatted and started carving into the rock, under what I just put. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

For minutes they snapped away as I obliged them with several artful poses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes, she removes the rollers and leaves me with a head full of small ringlets instead of my old straight hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the more I considered it over the fifty-four hours and two minutes, the more possible it seemed. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had less than five minutes to get up to the fire. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, dosed with perspective, we arrived at the neu-roimaging center in a nondescript industrial park. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere where they taught you to say please. Wait a minute, while I wait on that customer.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For a few minutes. But I want you home before dark. Got that?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It took the Queen only five minutes to explain the situation to the military men. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the last minute, Ben said he was coming too. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And her comments about the necessity of someone attending to the schedule only last about five minutes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When ten minutes had passed, he nudged his companions awake. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Citra sat through the wedding ceremony, but excused herself before the reception and took a publicar back to Scythe Faraday’s house, unable to bear another minute of it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I still feel like he's going to walk through the door any minute. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, Lopsang arrived at the South Summit on his way down from the top and encountered Harris.* Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you remember all them names when you can’t remember from one minute to the next how much salt goes into the biscuits?” asked Hannah. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence for a few minutes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He thought hard for several minutes before striding off once more. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The robotic female voice clicks on again: the library will close in five minutes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

On what turned out to be my last meeting with Luzan I went over the appointed fifty minutes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute I’m trying to figure out where my money could be, and the next minute, the cop was pounding on the door and everything else faded from my mind. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They were leaving, because the attendant was telling them that the museum would close in ten minutes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fretting, concentrated thought, reading, looking, wanting—all were to be avoided in favor of a slow drift of association, while the minutes accumulated like banked snow and the silence deepened around her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And 11 worms form a small part of a day’s rations to a bird that eats i o to 12 earthworms in as many minutes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A minute later, as I wait in line for the bathroom and stare out at the beautiful Pennsylvania landscape, I get that feeling again—like I want to bust out laughing. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth to say hello, but before I could say anything, a male voice said simply, “Three minutes.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later I see why she doesn’t do returns—she can’t reach the racks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom took longer than five minutes, which turned out to make all the difference. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later they stopped in front of a huge white building; he was led up steps, down hallways and then halted in front of a cell door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Snape’s right, though, isn’t he?” said Ron, after staring into a cracked mirror for a minute or two. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And to her oft-repeated question, “Are we almost there?” the welcome answer came at last: “Only a few more minutes now.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It cost a quarter to look into a machine for one minute. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he runs, he looks like a camel—all knobby-kneed and loose-jointed with his neck stretched so far out that his nose is over the goal line five minutes before his shoulders. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the cutter slashed out the items, throwing the discarded paper to the floor, a sea of newspaper rose as high as her waist each fifteen minutes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After another few minutes, the road led them to a place where, off to the left, a shallow stream looped near, with willows and sheltering, scrubby bushes. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

With only fifteen minutes and counting until Arletta Paisley’s new show, I didn’t have time for chitchat. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When it was over, everyone kind of needed a minute. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He stayed in an hour, breaking off every few minutes to come back to me and talk. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We circle for a few minutes, until the driver gives up and lets us off at Macy’s. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Put on your pajama bottoms right this minute!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited five minutes and then softly, his hands wet, he shut and bolted the door. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next minute, it seems, I’ve got a business of my own, with employees, and I’m rich. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

We’ll get to him shortly, but before we turn to the question of how we got here, it might be worth taking a few minutes to consider just where exactly "here" is. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The silence seemed to stretch for many minutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just a few minutes away from the hiding place of the Copper Key! Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mama rocked fast for a minute, then stopped dead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Within minutes they were under way again, dodging their way through the sea of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes she wipes the bottom of the mug with a tissue she keeps stuffed in her sweater sleeve. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep them up for just a minute. Doctor Norris will be right in.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He stops a minute, distracted by something in his earpiece. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I stand there for another minute to see if it sinks in. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper ducked into the back room and emerged a few minutes later carrying a tray loaded with hot bread and steaming bowls of stew. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No Katz would come along after a minute to smack it on the snout for me and say, “Jesus, Bryson, you cause me a lot of trouble.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A black flip phone is in a small plastic bag, along with a note: In thirty minutes, there will be a shift change. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin took the weapons away the minute Matt unwrapped them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Back up a minute. If wounded birds are floppers, what do you call dead birds?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I made it to the gym parking lot in three minutes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Coming to a downward slope, Uncle Jet jumped into the driver’s side and steered the slow-moving truck for a few minutes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

After a minute, the teacher from the classroom next door, Mr. Harrison, poked his head inside and said, “Everything okay in here? It sounds like a stampede of yaks.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clarke arrives in five minutes, but he doesn't do anything except read the warrant and tell Mom that everything's in order. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

ROSE’s face is growing colder by the minute. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Grandma often had to stop for a few minutes before she could continue to move down the stairs from their third floor with An Yi on her back. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed into the sun; the minutes passed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It takes thirteen steps to open, and she discovers the sequence in under five minutes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The snow got thicker and thicker, and forty- five minutes outside of Eastham, we turned around. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I took a few minutes to stare at the floor until I was sure I could speak without squeaking or choking. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So much?” was the doubtful answer; and he prolonged his scrutiny for some minutes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Haydn taught the world, apparently effortlessly, how to organise and develop melody in such a way that a piece of fifteen or twenty minutes would sound unified. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I spit it out because it’s what I’m feeling in this moment and was feeling the many moments, minutes, and hours before. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It took C.P. a minute to understand that another Klan youth had been robbed of his bus money by a group of blacks outside a Sears store. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After he corrected the exam, I removed another booklet from the pile and did that one in twelve minutes and 7 seconds. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Fifty minutes later, the bell rings, and Tiny follows me out into the hallway like a swollen shadow, saying, "Seriously, come on, this is ridiculous." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

If Frodo had really wanted to write a book, and had had many ears, he would have learned enough for several chapters in a few minutes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The minute I get into the car, Rhiannon bursts out laughing. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the last ten minutes, my head had disconnected itself from the stubborn muscle beating in my chest and, honestly, I wasn’t sure which was guiding me outside and away from him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And the dogs spoke to the men: singleshot barks—evenly spaced and widely spaced—one every three or four minutes, that might go on for twenty minutes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calista had gotten them for me from the library, which I was about to tell my mom, but for some reason at the last minute, I decided not to. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, I uncovered the mouth of a tunnel that led into a dark underground corridor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Your family is really great," she said after a minute. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I stand there a minute, letting myself feel how strange this all is, watching them, knowing what I know. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Starnes is going to call you in about ten minutes.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Any minute he expected a cannonball to plow through the crowd, for an explosion to blow them all into the smoky sky. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She thought for a minute or so, pushing back her kids like they were a tide about to flow out the door. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nobody could think of anything else to say for a minute. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The last ten minutes had been the best ten minutes of my life. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sis! I’ve been out here forty minutes and I’m half stewed.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A minute later I got another chance to shoot the ball, but one Palmetto fullback knocked me down and the other kicked it away. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother jumped up and said it was getting late and Marly looked as if she was going to fall off her perch any minute. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I never had more than five minutes’ peace unbroken. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched for a minute or two and then began to thread the flowers. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow Mother found a taxi and it delivered them to the station not a minute too soon. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m in too good a mood to argue anymore, so I tell him he can use it in ten minutes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And five minutes after that we had to get off the freeway. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After several minutes and the efforts of three assistant starters, Specify finally stood still. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not missed her moment—it was five minutes to midnight. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had driven for about fifteen minutes when he said, “This is not the way I planned it.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought about it for a minute, then asked, “Momma, how come we don’t just drive until Dad gets tired, then stop?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t go more than twenty-five miles an hour, so Jedda-Boy’s truck lost us in the first ten minutes. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Something had shifted in him from thirty minutes ago. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I finally videotaped about fifteen minutes of him sleeping, which I thought would settle the issue. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the trash can for a minute. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Radar, ever the brilliant tactician, has banked an extra thirty minutes without telling us. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The minute I came up I took a breath and went down again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Surely at any minute, she would pick up the book. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Twins, by Jupiter!” was all he said for a minute, then turning to the women with an appealing look that was comically piteous, he added, “Take ’em quick, somebody! Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just have to think about it for a minute. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

For just a minute I wondered if I wasn't making a mistake, then I thought it all over again quickly and got up to say goodbye. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Not sure, love,” Naomi said without looking up from her book, though she’d been reading the same few lines of Macbeth for the past ten minutes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hang on a minute,” he says, picking it up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hardly a minute later the black boy left the shop. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how much it would hurt my throat, but loved the way it made me feel a minute later as I sat on the toilet, pondering the tiled floor. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

In a minute he’d found one and knocked out one end. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like once every other day, for ten or fifteen minutes. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother sat for another minute, then left. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Responding to Lincoln's request, Dr. Bliss got to the station about twenty minutes after the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh—five minutes until the bus arrives,” she called out over the sound of the rushing water. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Fine, we’ll talk tonight, your dad will be home any minute. Didn’t I already say that?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it uncool to get there ten minutes before my secret admirer? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after nine o’clock, the light on the camera facing Nixon’s desk glowed red. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Films have always led me to believe that they kick you out the moment your thirty minutes are up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another fifteen minutes and what had seemed like a laugh­able dream that morning had suddenly become reality: It was just me and the other guy. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In Seattle, a few minutes later, phones began to ring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After a minute of staring blindly into the dark, I began to make out shapes in the room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Just a few minutes later, as I was regaining my composure, I noticed the smell of smoke, an acrid odor I couldn’t quite place. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t begrudge me a few minutes of quiet, but the table-setting came first. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes go by before I hear a tap-tap-tap sound on the pavement. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Conceivably, after only a few minutes’ calculations, the number of chains in the molecule could be fixed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Worry followed me every minute, making my insides flop around and my heart beat like crazy. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Ron was cleared to do the same subjects as Harry, and the two of them left the table together. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing was as clean-cut as he had thought it, a few minutes before. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of silence, SJ lets him go, and he sits up. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In twenty or thirty minutes, the wind picked up sharply and Timothy said that we must stand against the palm again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I counted off seven minutes that night, and then fourteen minutes, and then thirty. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every step was reluctant, and time seemed to slow its pace, so that between the raising of a foot and the setting of it down minutes of loathing passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Vonetta couldn’t take another excited minute of Fern jumping on the upper mattress. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes a few minutes to compose myself, and even then my eyes and nose are still streaming. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The minute they saw me they rushed toward me, jumping up and down with jubilation: “The mailman gave us two letters for you,” they cried. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pawnbroker looked at it from various angles, and after a minute of intense inspection said, “I can do one fifty for pawn,” the pawnbroker said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Way to wig out within the first half a minute, Jupiter. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“The Sixers could show up any minute now!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later two gunships came in and cleared everything from around the village. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital was twenty minutes from where the horse had stomped Finn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I know! I’ve been thinking about that very fact for months. I’ve also been thinking about lunch for at least fifteen minutes. I thank you for your time and concern.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

With a little over a minute on the clock and no time-outs left, Winchell works the sideline brilliantly, the team as precisioned and disciplined as anything in college. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about it for a minute, letting the fresh wind blow over me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For a minute, I stand there, watching them. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But a minute later, the corners of his lips tug upward. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy and I sat motionless for a good five minutes and then quietly collected our things and moved on. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Hold on, Bud. Do me a favor, go wait by that door for a minute.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

"I waited, and about four o'clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I don't understand—she was smiling a few minutes ago. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To me he says, “You got one minute to prepare yourself.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are bom for it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any lethal attack would merely render him deadish, and an ambudrone would arrive within minutes to take him to be revived. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After a few more minutes, the grandfather announced that it was time to keep walking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, Layla. We only have a minute. The Director wants you in his office.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She should be telling me why she loved me the minute she laid eyes on me—“You were special, I just knew it”—and how she has never stopped. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

For a full five minutes I am simply considered. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I sat there for a minute and thought about my options, and there weren’t many of them. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

For a minute, she just stands with her back against the doorframe and her eyebrows furrowed. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My threshold is five minutes, I tell myself. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Liam disappeared around the back of the car, reappearing a few minutes later with a red gas can and a chewed up black hose in hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Oh, very well,” he said; “let her come in, by all means; but just wait a minute till I tidy up the place.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Trying to understand why I cried ten minutes after Lucas told me Ada was at Russell’s but never shed a tear when my cousin dropped dead. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Five minutes till the last bell I lean toward the door, legs bouncing, books left on the floor. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“That he’s not about to turn into a raging psychopath any minute now?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily bawled, and for several minutes not even Mother could get her to say what had happened. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In those first few minutes, he made it brutally clear that he hated Wilson, he hated English, and he hated me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At fifteen minutes we were raiding my refrigerator. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

A groundhog—five times a minute when he’s hibernating. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t wait till the last minute as usual,” she warns. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A full minute of silence passes us by. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

And Kyle took off.“The store will close in fifteen minutes,” announced a voice from the ceiling speakers. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She took a minute to warm her body by the flames, and then she began the repairs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Within minutes the hot June sun burst down on Mossflower, as if in apology for its absence. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Late the next afternoon, when Nat had a few minutes of free time in the chandlery, he opened the New Testament in French. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stare at each other for a minute. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the World’s Fair appeared past the window. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind if I left you for a minute? I suppose I must see him,” said Laurie. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goll also insisted he turned in a second alarm when another man appeared ten minutes later to announce that the fire was spreading rapidly. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

My first trip had lasted only a few minutes, my second a few hours. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I realized she had been one of the girls I had caught looking at me just a few minutes earlier: hand cupped over her mouth, whispering. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She opened the door and her breathing got stuck in her throat for a minute when she saw the bunch on her stoop. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Not cloudy, not twilight, not the early minutes of dawn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They rode for a while and then stopped for a few minutes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“The Empire State Building is located at latitude 40 degrees, 44 minutes, 53.977 seconds north; longitude 73 degrees, 59 minutes, 10.812 seconds west. Thank you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Barely ten minutes from the cabin, they were tangled in a thicket. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor cut the visit short after just six minutes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes’ reflection, however, she continued, “I do remember his boasting one day, at Netherfield, of the implacability of his resentments, of his having an unforgiving temper. His disposition must be dreadful.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes we had it all cleaned up. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the whole assemblage is tearing around the planet itself at some 20 kilometers per second, the relative speed of two adjacent particles is very low, only some few centimeters per minute. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A minute ago you told us you never saw the mark on the stone properly!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features had not been perfectly under control. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The sergeant gazed at him for a long minute. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the force was sufficient to spin Butler like an ice-skater, landing him on his rump for the second time in as many minutes. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He must have stood a while near the end of the gap, resting or looking, because it was twenty minutes before he came out, walking somewhat more slowly, and started toward the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It took me a few minutes to understand the last part because he kept saying “his mistress” and to me she was Marie. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You aint, is you. See can you wait a minute, then.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, Coach Mustilli was panting, but I was just getting warmed up. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and asked Cramp if he could leave me alone for a couple of minutes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ll just be a minute,” she said, after my father’s wife reintroduced her as his hospice physician. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, at this very minute, while I’m stuck here in Colby, North Carolina, surrounded by hillbilly kids, ole Scrappy is back in Raleigh in the county jail again because of his fondness for fighting. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was twenty minutes before the friend went away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z