minim
Example Sentences
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What they meant was that Meredith Willson, 63, was a missed minim who didn't belong on the council.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lesbia set to work to try and explain the functions of a minim, a crotchet, and a quaver.
From Loyal to the School by Brazil, Angela
Never mind about time, blow each note as if it were a minim, giving a breath to each.”
From The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne by Smith, A. Monro
A minim more would lull him into sleep.
From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar
Gentlemen, not a bit of evidence have you had, not a molecule, not a minim, not a mite.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar