| 单词 | minute hand |
| 例句 | 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 The minute hand of the clock was a terribly slow lever, pushing the hour hand imperceptibly forward. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I kept looking up at the clock, praying the minute hand would strike 1:40 and the bell would ring. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I glanced up at the big clock, whose minute hand never seemed to move in spite of the second hand winding around and around. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I kept staring at the clock, but it felt as though the minute hand were bathed in syrup. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He bought a ticket and traveled down the lake on Hydro, leaning over the rail, with one eye on the minute hand of his watch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It ticked, but the face was splintered and the minute hand was bent. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He glances at the wall clock and waits until the minute hand wobbles forward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But inexorably, every thirty seconds, the minute hand of the electric clock above his bed jumped forward with an almost imperceptible click. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The hour and minute hands had stopped at a specific time. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The minute hand on her grandfather clock ticks another notch toward the top of the hour. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The only motion was the minute hand and the agitated red star-shaped time indicator on Fischer’s clock. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As the professor turned the wheel, they saw a slender black hand, like a minute hand, detach itself from the complicated background and move around the dial with a series of clicks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z "Mindy . . ." his dad said, holding a wait a minute hand up to Park. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I remember sitting at my desk in school, last period of the last class of the last day, and waiting for the minute hand to tick along until the bell rang. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Oh, how I wished the minute hand would slow down and give me time for a nice, long soak. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z At the center of “Baltimore Self Portrait,” Ruth Lozner’s assemblage of junk and memories, is a vintage clock that lacks hour and minute hands but whose second hand circles resolutely. Review | In the galleries: A painful, political take on the art of cruel shoes 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Patience wears thin as the minute hand moves toward 4 p.m. in slow motion. Two parents, two jobs, two young kids: Inside the chaos of family quarantine 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Intended to show the close proximity of humanity to total annihilation, the clock’s minute hand is periodically shown edging its way toward ultimate midnight. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Its wondrously complicated dials were designed to follow the planets’ wobbly course, but it is also a conventional clock: The minute hand is a figure of a woman that makes a full circuit every hour. Science, Splendor and ‘Dresden Green’ to Impress a Sovereign 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z My body is constantly in motion, while my brain is glued to the clock, willing the minute hand to move, to eat the minutes. I didn’t make the Olympics. Now what? 2012-07-11T00:01:00Z With “On Time,” Fabrica created a clock for people who are always late for appointments, offering them a psychological aid: the bent minute hand is always five minutes early. 'O'Clock' Exhibit Explores Other Senses of Time 2013-04-24T15:32:10Z They often manage motion that's next to invisible--like the minute hand of a clock. Eiko & Koma's invisible motion at MCA 2011-06-26T15:21:00Z Every year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists convenes a meeting to decide whether the minute hand of its famous Doomsday Clock will move forward, backward or stay put. The Doomsday Clock is an imperfect metaphor — but the existential danger is all too real 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Consider a clock with an hour hand and minute hand. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Webb is a big telescope, so it slews slower than the minute hand on a clock. Meet the Woman Who Makes the James Webb Space Telescope Work 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z As the minute hand struck the hour, she arrived exactly on time and full of energy. Shooting celebrities: Thirty years behind the lens 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Instead, he began to investigate the implications of writing as the minute hand on the doomsday clock inched closer to midnight. In a crisis, time feels meaningless. 'Desert Notebooks' asks why 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The minute hands of most clocks don't move backward, and the Doomsday Clock, once its minute hand is set, doesn't start ticking forward. The Doomsday Clock is an imperfect metaphor — but the existential danger is all too real 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z What is the measure of the angle the minute hand traces in minutes? Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z I adjust the minute hand if it needs it, though often, remarkably, it doesn’t. Perspective | You can keep your Apple Watch. Give me the sounds and smells of an old clock. 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Last year, North Korea’s advancing nuclear arsenal, Donald Trump’s erratic behavior, and tensions with other nuclear powers advanced the minute hand thirty seconds. The Doomsday Clock is still two minutes to midnight 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in January 2018 moved the minute hand of the doomsday clock – which represents how close humanity is to catastrophe – to two minutes to midnight. How close to doomsday? Just ask former California Gov. Jerry Brown 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z In 1991, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which marked an official end to the Cold War, the minute hand was pushed back to a reassuring 17 minutes. The Doomsday Clock is an imperfect metaphor — but the existential danger is all too real 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The clock’s minute hand currently teeters at a mere two minutes before midnight, which is the closest it’s been to doom since 1953, following the first thermonuclear detonations by the U.S. and Soviet Union. If 2016 was the most important election in history, this is our chance to begin undoing it 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z When I ask if those rifles are really the best option for home defense, they joke about the minute hand of the doomsday clock inching closer to midnight. Gun Culture Is My Culture. And I Fear for What It Has Become. 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z “Just this morning, the pre-eminent science and security board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to catastrophe,” he said. The Nation’s Governors Spoke, and We Found a Few Surprises. (Yes, Really.) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z We believe that the perilous world security situation described here would, in itself, justify moving the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. Opinion | We’re as close to Doomsday today as we were during the Cold War 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Two years later, the minute hand moved forward to just 100 seconds before midnight, and this January — the most recent Doomsday Clock announcement — it was, for the first time ever, inched forward to 90 seconds. The Doomsday Clock is an imperfect metaphor — but the existential danger is all too real 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Since then, the Bulletin's board has determined when the clock's minute hand will move, usually to draw attention to worldwide crises that it believes threaten the survival of the human species. The Doomsday Clock is now just 2 minutes to ‘midnight,’ the symbolic hour of the apocalypse 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z They evaluate the likelihood of Armageddon and move the minute hand accordingly. The Doomsday Clock is the gimmick we need to think about nuclear tensions 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The minute hand on the Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how vulnerable to catastrophe the world is deemed to be. Doomsday Clock moves nearer 'apocalypse' 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z In black or white, the hour and minute hands stand out against the exposed movement. Critic’s Choice: The 8 Best Watches of 2017 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic instrument run by a group of scientists informing the public when Earth is facing imminent disaster, moved its minute hand closer to midnight. Doomsday Clock registers Cold-War-style pessimism 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Hovering anywhere between 17 and 2 minutes to midnight since its formation, the minute hand of the clock advances forward to symbolize humanity’s looming demise. Doomsday Clock ticks 30 seconds closer to midnight, thanks to Trump 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z At first, the editor of the Bulletin was responsible for moving the minute hand. The Doomsday Clock is the gimmick we need to think about nuclear tensions 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z "Old Capt Bassett therefore went up to the clock and with a long stick deliberately turned the minute hand back 10 minutes. A storm of laughter greeted this time-honored method of cheating Old Father Time." Who was second-longest serving US president? - BBC News 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The minute hand struck 11 a.m., but to Hickrod’s surprise there were no resounding gongs to fill the Downtown air. Volunteers keep Indiana county courthouse clock ticking 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z We waited, as if it were a minute hand suspended. Donald Trump, American Preacher 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z In 2015, the Bulletin decided to move the minute hand closer to doom, from five to an ominous three minutes before annihilation. The GOP just despises science: No, really — why would Trump, Rubio and Cruz rather live in a sizzling hellscape than face reality? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z The decision to move the clock's minute hand is made by the Bulletin's Science and Security Board and Board of Directors — a group that currently includes 16 Nobel Laureates. World’s 'doomsday' clock will stay at three minutes to midnight 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty relaxed tensions in 1988 and the minute hand was rolled back once again. 4 Times the World Came Close to 'Doomsday' 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The scientists may announce a change of the minute hand on their clock that is a metaphor for how vulnerable the world is to catastrophe. 'Doomsday Clock' set for an update amid nuclear tensions - BBC News 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The hour hand is the arm of a robot and the minute hand is the arm of a Star Wars battle droid. Legos bring historic buildings to Flint Institute of Arts 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Polished, laser cut hour and minute hands and a thin black second hand sweep the face, and a small square date window sits inside the “III” mark. Detroit Watch Company 1701 Classic: Starting A Collection 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Of course there are also hour and minute hands, as well as a three-dimensional 12-hour display styled to look like a compass. Five Swoon-Worthy Timepieces To Gift Him On Valentine's Day 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Watch the minute hand go round and round and round. Why Most People Won’t Shop Again for Health Insurance 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In Bristol a compromise was found: two minute hands, one showing local time, the other Railway Time. The element that redefined time 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z When the chronograph is started, the second hand and minute hand sweep along the top from left to right in a circular arc of 45 minutes, with an area for 15 minutes of added time. Pelé And Hublot Dedicate Favela Soccer Pitch During 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z In one scene, The Mandarin moves through a digital projection of his brain using minute hand motions to pinpoint the specific region that senses pain. One Giant Leap for Mankind 2013-05-28T12:00:00Z Here’s Rich in Atlanta: The minute hand will complete a circle 12 times, while the hour hand completes one circle. Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: Frog in Well 2012-05-28T16:00:00Z He projected onto a screen a point of bright light that went around and around, like the tip of the minute hand on a clock. How Physics and Neuroscience Dictate Your "Free" Will 2012-05-16T18:20:46.707Z The minute hand may move forward yet again: Analysts expect North Korea to keep working on its own rockets, its own launching capabilities and its ongoing nuclear program. IHT Rendezvous: Avoiding Another Tick on the Doomsday Clock 2012-04-15T06:01:34Z Has it any hands besides the hour hand and the minute hand? The Psychology of Arithmetic 2012-03-31T02:00:28.817Z Nothing remained but to watch--the seniors with trepidation, the juniors with a not unpleasant excitement--the minute hand of the clock. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z How often and at what times will the hour and minute hand meet? Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: Frog in Well 2012-05-28T16:00:00Z The decision to advance the minute hand was made by the BAS Science and Security Board, along with experts on nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, climate change, and biosecurity from around the world. Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight 2012-01-10T22:24:11Z Then the jaws began to open, which they did as slowly as the minute hand of a watch. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z He rose at once, switched on the shaded light on the bureau, and looked at his watch: the minute hand had just swung past three o'clock. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The minute hand touched the half-hour, and the clerks began to distribute the papers. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z It had been decided to start the engines precisely at six, and the minute hand of the engine-room clock was getting very near the perpendicular. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z Twenty pairs of restless eyes watched the minute hand as it drew close, very close to twelve. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z How slowly the minute hand of the clock moved! The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z "Stop!" said the major, when the minute hand of his watch was exactly over the half-hour. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z The lights were flickering in the station only the great yellow clock-face shone unchangeable, with its minute hand creeping up. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z There are many marginal glosses in a very minute hand. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z The information of approaching relief was written upon very thin paper, in a minute hand, and inclosed in a ball of wax, not much larger than a pea. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z When the minute hand of the watch in his pocket had made one more circuit, both Bruce and Linda found themselves upon their feet. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z Slowly, slowly, Louie raised his hand toward the bird, his motion so gradual it was little more noticeable than the turning of a minute hand on a clock. Louis Zamperini: survival of the fittest 2011-01-16T00:04:04Z At twelve o'clock the hour and minute hand of a watch point in the same direction and the angle between them is zero. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z He could lose himself in black gorges of agony, grope his way back to find that the minute hand had scarcely stirred.... She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The end looked like this: five old guys sitting around a Chinese bakery, sipping coffee, the hour and minute hands on five wristwatches creeping together at the top of the dial. A Hole in Old Routines After OTB Parlors? Last Day 2010-12-14T06:55:11Z The faces are 13 metres in diameter – almost twice the size of those on the Houses of Parliament tower – while the minute hand is 7.8 metres long. Chinese city gets world's largest mechanical clock 2010-06-07T20:00:00Z It starts as a full red circle, but as the minute hand moves clockwise, the circle opens revealing white space. Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Time Timer 2010-06-01T15:06:00Z She twisted around constantly, trying to get a good look at the wall clock, where the minute hand was ticking, ever so slowly, toward 3 o’clock and the release for home. Concocting a Cure for Kids With Issues 2010-03-11T17:17:00Z A splinter of glass pressed against the minute hand. Whispering Wires She sped down the stairway, and as she passed the glimmering face of the time-keeper she glanced at it and saw that the minute hand was just eight minutes past the hour. Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway This minute hand has to push that hour hand so many times round before the moment comes for your ghost to mount and ride. The Firebrand As he passed through the hall, with her beside him, he saw the minute hand was nearer to midnight than to any other hour; a very dissipated time.... Helena Brett's Career But Mayhem knew, as he got up and ran again, that he was now moving slower than the minute hand on a clock. World Beyond Pluto When I passed before I had really seen only the minute hand. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The minute hand fits on to a squared end of a brass socket, which is fixed to the wheel M, and fits close, but not tight, on the prolonged arbor of the centre wheel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" When the minute hand approaches the inevitable moment, Fate's full stop—did you not call it, you must mount and ride to Hades! The Firebrand The hour and the minute hand had not moved noticeably. The Six Fingers of Time Then, when she was certain that the minute hand must be pointing to twelve, she looked up and gave a gasp. The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan And with the delicate minute hand pointing but fifteen minutes off from one o' clock, she still stood gazing and rapt. Trading The leading principle of the best systems is at each hour to cause a pair of fingers or some equivalent device to close upon the minute hand and put it exactly to the hour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" But so fast had Traverse walked that just as the minute hand pointed to half-past six the latch was raised and Traverse ran in—his face flushed with joy. Hidden Hand Death seems racing with the minute hand of my watch. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India The minute hand was moving with the speed at which the second hand usually traveled. The End of Time I suppose they have, for I see them studying the clock very often, particularly the minute hand. Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story Another magical clock consists of two disks of thin sheet glass mounted one close behind the other, one carrying the minute hand and the other the hour hand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" The minute hand passed on and the cuckoo did not stir. Beyond the Door I feel like stopping that terrible run of the minute hand. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India This center wheel revolves once an hour and turns the minute hand. Makers of Many Things The hour hand, for example, is exactly twenty minutes removed from the minute hand—that is, the third of the circumference of the dial. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems After luncheon Mrs. Crowley came to sit with Lady Kelsey, and together they watched the minute hand go round the clock. The Explorer The minute hand pointed to the hour, but Sir Douglas Haig's messenger had not come! With Haig on the Somme "It seems funny to think of clocks without minute hands, doesn't it?" Christopher and the Clockmakers The thundering of applause last night was quite staggering, and my people checked off my reception by the minute hand of a watch, and stared at one another, thinking I should never begin. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 We were also told, and the illustration of the clock face bore out the statement, that the hour and minute hands were exactly twenty divisions apart, "the third of the circumference of the dial." The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems On no account should child be allowed—knowing no better—to bite watch, owing to danger from glass, minute hand, etc. The Keepers of the King's Peace The minute hand of the electric clock pushed forward. Little Lost Sister They also, like most of Tompion's timekeepers, had an hour and a minute hand. Christopher and the Clockmakers The indicator was moving, hardly faster than the minute hand of a clock. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility As he spoke, the minute hand moved again and Tee started nervously, upsetting his drink. Faithfully Yours Rosie had the watch before her, and was closely observing the minute hand. Rollo in Naples Our sight scarcely reaches a mile, then it ceases; we can observe the movement of the second hand, but that of the minute hand escapes us. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour The minute hand is eight feet long, and weighs seventy-five pounds. Rollo in London A line from the Pole Star to the Guardians of the Pole is now in the position of the minute hand of a clock about 28 minutes past an hour. Half-Hours with the Stars A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations I stood watching the minute hand of my watch creep towards midnight. The Red Room Almost as slowly as the minute hand of a watch, they were creeping across the desk toward the door. Sense from Thought Divide Yet, on the other hand, a too delicate or minute hand is not desirable. The Etiquette of To-day There it goes, that nasty little minute hand! The Forbidden Trail The line from this star to the Guardians of the Pole, β and γ, is in about the position of the minute hand of a clock 2 minutes before an hour. Half-Hours with the Stars A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations The three-quarters of an hour passed very slowly, and Bob consulted his watch several times, before the minute hand got to twelve. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) The young cadet watched the astral chronometer, seeing the red hand sweep the seconds away, and the black minute hand inch around the dial. On the Trail of the Space Pirates Anxiously, I watched the minute hand of the watch slide toward the “XII” of the dial ... touch it ... move on.... The Infra-Medians Heated little faces grew even more flushed as the minute hand of the big wall clock showed the passing of five flying minutes. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life A line from the Pole Star to the Guardians of the Pole is in the position of the minute hand of a clock about 7 minutes before an hour. Half-Hours with the Stars A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations As the minute hand on the drawing-room clock came round to the full hour, she felt that her heart was beating with a violence which she could not repress. Can You Forgive Her? Any jar to the wheels and springs was registered at once by the minute hand of his brain. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky At the speed of the minute hand of a watch the left of our line crept forward. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I As the minute hand of the official clock dropped into its slot somebody called the Naval Observatory. The Man Who Rocked the Earth All unpublished 1837-1839 A series of poems written in a minute hand upon both sides of fourteen or fifteen small slips of paper of various sizes. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle The two men smoked with their eyes upon the minute hand that slowly crept toward twelve. The Challenge of the North He was not yet awake, but the minute hand was quivering, and through all his wonderfully sensitive organism ran the note of alarm. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky The minute hand of the clock was moving around with deadly precision. Arms and the Woman "To hell with peace!" he bellowed, turning back his watch until the minute hand pointed to five minutes to twelve. The Man Who Rocked the Earth "This is no Indian woman," he said slowly, with a wagging forefinger that beat off his words like the minute hand of Fate. Montlivet He replied that he could not, but he recollected that the hour hand and minute hand were exactly together, one above the other, and the second hand had just passed the forty-ninth second. Amusements in Mathematics But it seemed to her that an age elapsed before the minute hand on the clock dragged itself one-quarter of the distance around the circle. Square Deal Sanderson She had pulled him in and was walking him, waiting for me, a little turned in the saddle, one minute hand resting lightly on his broad back. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 It is everywhere steep; it is every minute hands and feet on the rocks; sometimes you cling with fingers, elbows, knees, and feet, and are tempted to add the nose and chin. Among the Forces The minute hand, being quick at figures, presently replied, "Eighty-six thousand four hundred times." McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader The hour and minute hands point to spots that are exactly a third of the circumference apart, but the second hand is a little too advanced. Amusements in Mathematics It was written in a very minute hand. The Keeper of the Door As the minute hand slowly but surely drew near to twelve he asked to see his valet's watch, and was relieved to find that it marked the same time as his own. Love Romances of the Aristocracy God's clock is always right, and when it is one it strikes one, and when it is twelve it strikes twelve, and the second hand is as accurate as the minute hand. New Tabernacle Sermons The minute hand seemed endowed with extraordinary speed. The Teeth of the Tiger There are eleven different times in twelve hours when the hour and minute hands of a clock are exactly one above the other. Amusements in Mathematics We were then alone; the night was far advanced; our security increased at every move of the minute hand as it approached the figure that marked midnight on the dial. Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty To make the dial, paste a piece of paper over the old dial, pull the wire back and forth one hundred times, and make a mark where the minute hand stops. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do To begin with how long do you spoze the minute hand is? Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition Both watched the horizon where, beyond distant Bombay and China, the sun was appearing, rising with the rapidity of the minute hand of a big clock. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life And out of all the pairs of times indicated by these changes, what is the exact time when the minute hand will be nearest to the point IX? Amusements in Mathematics In the year 1817, a clock was affixed in the tower, by Mr. Allport, which has four dials, and each of them both hour and minute hands. A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington The watched pot will never boil, and the minute hand of the big clock dragged forward with deadly pauses from one black mark to the next. Trailin'! The minute hand of the clock was already climbing upward towards eleven. New Arabian Nights He received punctual answers of a more frugal form, written in a clear, minute hand, on paper vexatiously thin. Roderick Hudson “Forty-three minutes past eleven,” announced Hobson, who was attentively watching the minute hand of his chronometer. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude Phoebe waited anxiously by the inn door for my lady's coming She watched the minute hand of the little Dutch clock, wondering at the slowness of its progress. Lady Audley's Secret Above his head was a clock, with the minute hand pointed to the hour of four. Revenge! The minute hand crept around to eleven, passed it, and on to five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five. The Short Line War That night he took his Waterbury, prised open the face with a pocket-knife as if he were opening an oyster, put the minute hand on exactly half an hour, and retired to bed satisfied. The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories He sat there watching the movement of the minute hand. Lifted Masks; stories They draw the minute hand on with a magnet, I am told, while the watch hangs on their badge, and they can swear they never opened it. Erema — My Father's Sin The whistle was answered, and in a minute hands were stretched down to help them to scramble over the earthwork. In Times of Peril Nevertheless, as the minute hand crept around the watch, the two men began to peer out through the side window. The Short Line War It seemed the quarter of a lifetime, and Diana brushed her hand across her eyes to clear away the dazzling reflection of the staring white china face with its long black minute hand. The Sheik The minute hand now pointed to seven minutes to twelve. Lifted Masks; stories The minute hand crept on towards three o'clock. The Untamed This morning, exactly as the minute hand of your watch counts off the hour of six, you will be shot to death through one of these holes in the dungeon walls. The Danger Trail I have listened and the minute hand of the clock has been travelling on and my pen has been still. Miss Prudence A Story of Two Girls' Lives. With the minute hand on the very mark, he turned carelessly, the revolver still dangling by the trigger guard, and laughed toward the crowd. Gunman's Reckoning The minute hand was moving 'round the dial, faster than an ordinary second-hand. The House on the Borderland The bootblack drew a tin putty-blower from his pocket, took unerring aim, and nailed in a single shot the minute hand to the dial. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers As the minute hand touched three, from the back of the case, as if from the casing itself, a little needle, perhaps a quarter of an inch, jumped out. The Exploits of Elaine Would the minute hand never climb up the face to the hour hand and the two get together at twelve, and so end his impatience. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero The hour and minute hands were at right angles. The Pit Angry and impatient, he proceeded to his own office; and with his eyes fixed on the clock, growled at the slowness of the minute hand. Monsieur Lecoq Then the minute hand of the clock marked the end of the interview, and the nurse appeared on the click and turned me out. Simon the Jester As he held the watch up, the second hand ticked around and the minute hand passed the meridian of the hour. The Exploits of Elaine Now, the minute hand was over the edge of the number, and he began to deliberate whether he might not rest for another five minutes? The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The minute hands of the clock dragged around. The Blazed Trail The seconds passed on as the minute hand of the watch went round from ten to twenty, from twenty to thirty, from thirty to forty. The Wizard The boot-black drew a tin putty blower from his pocket, took unerring aim, and nailed in a single shot the minute hand to the dial. Drift from Two Shores A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 The minute hand was now upright and it was time to go on. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The minute hand of the clock traveled on halfway round the circle of the dial. Armadale She wrote on these bits of paper in a minute hand, holding each against a piece of board, such as is used in binding books, for a desk. Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 What he was continually looking at in the palm of his right hand was nothing but his watch, the minute hand of which he appeared to be noting intently. Mystery of the Yellow Room We call the long hand the minute hand, for it tells the minutes. The New McGuffey First Reader A two minute hand is no pleasure to her absolutely if she has diagnosed your hand as one calling for six minutes, or vice versa. Cobb's Anatomy She stooped closer over him, breathed the softest of kisses on his brow, covered his minute hand with hers, and at last started up and came away. The Professor |
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