1 He will probably be here in a few minutes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 2 The greeting between the lovers was warm, but brief, for minutes were precious, and there was much to be done.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 3 When he finished we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lestrade's pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand account.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 4 For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune.
5 I shall follow in a few minutes.
6 He gave his orders quickly, and in a couple of minutes every animal was at his post.
7 But it was some minutes before they could fully take it in.
8 After a few minutes the men were seen to be running in all directions.
9 It went on for five minutes without stopping.
10 The gilt hands of the stable clock pointed inflexibly at two minutes to the hour.
11 Colonel Mayhew did not dispute the producer's right to skip two hundred years in less than fifteen minutes.
12 Mr. Utterson had been some minutes at his post, when he was aware of an odd, light footstep drawing near.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE 13 But now the ten minutes drew to an end.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT 14 He walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less-frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 15 She was still doing this, five minutes afterwards.