1 I forgot myself half a minute ago.
2 "Stop a minute, though," he said, wheeling round before we had gone many paces.
3 In another minute we were outside the gate, and it was locked, and Estella was gone.
4 At the hour and minute," said Herbert, nodding, "at which she afterwards stopped all the clocks.
5 Like the clock in Miss Havisham's room, and like Miss Havisham's watch, it had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
6 And it gained its point after all, for I saw it through the window within a few minutes, being nursed by little Jane.
7 Well," said Joe, glancing up at the Dutch clock, "she's been on the Ram-page, this last spell, about five minutes, Pip.
8 When Joe went home at five minutes before ten, he found her struck down on the floor, and promptly called in assistance.
9 It was soon done, and the boat was brought round to the Temple stairs, and lay where I could reach her within a minute or two.
10 The interview lasted but a few minutes, and she gave me a guinea when I was going, and told me to come again on my next birthday.
11 Biddy, who was the most obliging of girls, immediately said she would, and indeed began to carry out her promise within five minutes.
12 If I dozed for a minute, I was awakened by Miss Havisham's cries, and by her running at me with all that height of fire above her head.
13 My heart failed me when I saw him squaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone.
14 There we were stopped a few minutes by a signal from the sergeant's hand, while two or three of his men dispersed themselves among the graves, and also examined the porch.
15 Our oarsmen were so fresh, by dint of having occasionally let her drive with the tide for a minute or two, that a quarter of an hour's rest proved full as much as they wanted.
16 It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
17 Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.
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