minute-hand

Every movement of the minute-hand is a movement lost, a moment lost, one minute less in a cherished life that is measured by the clock.

Clockwatching | Her Bad Mother 2009

Upon examining it I discovered that one of the raisin-stems which I had been flipping about the room during the discourse of the Angel of the Odd had flown through the fractured crystal, and lodging, singularly enough, in the key-hole, with an end projecting outward, had thus arrested the revolution of the minute-hand.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

Every movement of the minute-hand is a movement lost, a moment lost, one minute less in a cherished life that is measured by the clock.

Catherine Connors: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Now Is the Moment to Hold Your Child Catherine Connors 2010

Every movement of the minute-hand is a movement lost, a moment lost, one minute less in a cherished life that is measured by the clock.

Catherine Connors: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Now Is the Moment to Hold Your Child 2010

Every movement of the minute-hand is a movement lost, a moment lost, one minute less in a cherished life that is measured by the clock.

Clockwatching 2009

Every movement of the minute-hand is a movement lost, a moment lost, one minute less in a cherished life that is measured by the clock.

Archive 2009-01-04 2009

The minute-hand was moving round the dial, faster than an ordinary second-hand.

The House on the Borderland 2007

At last the minute-hand of the old-fashioned brazen-faced timepiece was on the last quarter to eight, and there was every reason for its being time to get ready for departure.

Adam Bede 2004

Adam sat looking at the clock: the minute-hand was hurrying along the last five minutes to ten with a loud, hard, indifferent tick, and Adam watched the movement and listened to the sound as if he had had some reason for doing so.

Adam Bede 2004

As the major, posted near his clock, said the last words, his little audience of three, assembled at the opposite end of the room, saw the hour-hand and the minute-hand on the dial point together to twelve.

Armadale 2003