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1  Everyone was silent for a minute.
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2  There was a minute's pause perhaps.
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3  For several minutes I trembled violently.
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4  For a minute, perhaps, my mind was wool-gathering.
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5  We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so.
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6  Indeed, in another minute I felt a tug at my coat, then something at my arm.
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7  As I returned, I passed again across that minute when she traversed the laboratory.
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8  I stared for a minute at the Time Machine and put out my hand and touched the lever.
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9  I suppose I covered the whole distance from the hill crest to the little lawn, two miles perhaps, in ten minutes.
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10  I never felt such a disappointment as I did in waiting five, ten, fifteen minutes for an explosion that never came.
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11  I suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place, but to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket.
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12  For a minute perhaps I stared aghast at this blackness that was creeping over the day, and then I realized that an eclipse was beginning.
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13  Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face, and their ears were singularly minute.
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14  The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day.
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15  I had judged the strength of the lever pretty correctly, for it snapped after a minute's strain, and I rejoined her with a mace in my hand more than sufficient, I judged, for any Morlock skull I might encounter.
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16  If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred times faster than we are, if it gets through a minute while we get through a second, the impression it creates will of course be only one-fiftieth or one-hundredth of what it would make if it were not travelling in time.
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17  Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.
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