He stopped every few minutes and leaned on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each day dragging out with monotonous calm.

Not without a face-saving respite of at least a few minutes.

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

A few minutes later I saw my Uncle's car drive up and a woman's figure emerge and walk to the corner.

They played crack the whip a few minutes without mishap.

The Fourteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers lost one-third of its numbers within a few minutes, among them being several men whose time of service had expired but who had volunteered to advance with their regiment.

And in a few minutes Papa was dead.

For a few minutes there was nothing to hear.

For a few brief minutes they had all been part of one little drama.

This is going to be a language lesson, and you can master it in a few minutes.

In a few minutes she was making the ten-foot hike unaided ; ;

When the parents emerged from the bedroom a few minutes later, the maid greeted them quietly.

The master of the house, his nourished face unrevealing, consented to postpone his departure a few minutes to talk to the detective.

`` Sabine called a few minutes ago '', Eugene said.

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

I stayed on the car for a few minutes until, turning right, it entered a huge square, Bayezit, with the Bayezit Mosque on the right and the gate to the university just beyond it.

otherwise, you'll have to spend a few minutes to either attach a suitable spring clip somewhere on the press head or fit the key to a length of light chain and fasten to the bottom of the motor mount so that the key is out of the way when not in use.

It only takes a few minutes for the foaming action to be completed and after a short cure, the material can be cut into lengths as desired.

They got it over the side and clambered aboard only a few minutes before their schooner went under.

The audition was held a few minutes later in somebody's apartment.

After a few minutes he said, `` I can't use you if you dance like that.

When he came to the movies -- more or less by accident -- they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

A few weeks later the maps were being divided into squares and a position was described as being `` about lots 239, 247 and 272 with pickets forward as far as 196 ''.

A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

A few years later the dome fell in.

but a few seconds later she was standing directly across the room from me, looking me in the eyes and saying in a scathingly condemnatory tone, `` Your father despises you ''!!

A taxi took him back to the bar and grill where he had left his car, and a few minutes later he found a parking place across the street from his apartment.

A few minutes later, FBI agent Francis Crosby, talking fast, eased up the ramp to the plane, unarmed.

A few moments later her hands were trembling and her brow had contracted with anxiety and dismay.

Front legs are formed under the gill sac and hind legs become visible a few days later.

A few days later, the tail is reabsorbed, due to the higher thyroxine concentration required for this to take place.

He soon lost consciousness and bled to death a few minutes later.

Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

A few years later Whitney and his American contemporaries succeeded in introducing the relevant concepts ( interchangeable parts, tool-path control via machine tools and jigs, transfer of skill to the equipment, allowing use of semi-skilled or unskilled machine operators ) to American firearm-manufacture.

This incident shows the strong position of a bishop in the Western part of the empire, even when facing a strong emperor — the controversy of John Chrysostom with a much weaker emperor a few years later in Constantinople led to a crushing defeat of the bishop.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

When Charles left Germany a few weeks later, Albert renewed his depredations in Franconia.

A few years later, he received a few shares in T. T.

He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.

The Athenian politician Aristides would spend the rest of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying ( according to Plutarch ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new members was to be.

He returned to academia a few years later as a professor at the University of Montpellier, where he stayed until his retirement in 1988.