Stepan Arkadyevitch smiled hardly perceptibly, catching the instantaneous change he knew so well in Levin's face, which had become as gloomy as it had been bright a minute before.
He looked at the princess, who had been so dear to him a minute before, and he did not like the manner in which she welcomed this Vassenka, with his ribbons, just as though she were in her own house.
I can tell you it all beforehand," and a wicked light gleamed in her eyes, that had been so soft a minute before.
A minute before, and I was completely isolated; cut off from the rest of my species, and resigned to a fate that seemed to command my quitting this state of being, without further communion with mankind.
Kitty gazed at her left-hand neighbour with surprise, but I could feel that maiden bashfulness induced her to press less closely to my side than she had done the minute before.
The only thing that marked his end was a look of singular significance that he cast on my wife, not a minute before he breathed his last.
Broil them on a toaster over the fire; remove to a hot dish; put a little butter, pepper, and salt on each one, and let them stand a minute before serving.
Bob lost his head very much as Tom had done a minute before, for observing that the buck did not fall, he clubbed his gun and rushed forward with the intention of braining him.
He was transfixed for an instant, and then, awaking to his own peril, he whirled about, threw down his gun, and dashed for the tree behind which he was standing a minute before.
I was only doing what you had done a minute before," said Tom; "only I had better sense than to try to crawl under a tree.
She met Mr. Linden at the door, gladness in every line and movement, and yet the same grace over all her action now, that a minute before was in all her repose.
He was silent a minute before he spoke it; then spoke in a clear even voice.
It was a minute before I had a firm grasp on myself.
Big Sam looked thoughtfully at me for more than a minute before he spoke.
This assurance was less pleasing than the prospect of loss that had soured his face but a minute before.
It was most a minute before three of them pulled me off him, and he was considerably worse to look at then.
It was perhaps a minute before he was clearly conscious of anything beyond the physical agony and the mental effort to retain control of his faculties.
It was 'most a minute beforethree of them pulled me off him, and he was considerably worse to look at then.
A minute before it had seemed incredible to him that he should ever have the courage to utter it--but here it was.
The color had gone out of his face, and with it the effect of earnestness and mental elevation which, a minute before, had caught her fancy.
The channel of the stream, which but a minute before I could have leaped across, was the next instant filled, and utterly impassable.
It was half a minute before Mr. Driscoll could speak in any kind of a spirit.
The room was absolutely without attempt at decoration, and was as clean as though it had been swept and dusted the minute before.
A minute beforehe had asked Ferdinand to run down and get them for him, but Maggie, who just then had been starting out for a loaf of bread, had said shortly to the boy that she would get them herself.
A space of some feet, where no possibility of space had seemed to be not a minute before, left Lois standing alone, with every eye fixed upon her in hatred and dread.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minute before" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
