"15 minutes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the young midshipmen we had on board for instruction during the training cruise, like us boys on the lower deck each in our respective billet, gave out that we were in latitude 44 degrees 10 minutes north, and longitude 10 degrees 15 minutes west, thus showing that we were well to the westward of the ill-omened Cape Finisterre and now safely out of the ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... for boiled custard, only let milk be cold. Pour into custard cups. Stand these in a dripping pan half full of warm water and bake in a pretty hot oven. Watch carefully, bake 15 minutes. ...
— Making Good On Private Duty • Harriet Camp Lounsbery
... a meridian altitude of the sun, one of the necessary requisites is to have the sun exactly on your meridian. In fact, that is just another way of expressing meridian altitude, i.e., an altitude taken when the sun is on your meridian. Now suppose that 10 or 15 minutes before noon you fear that the sun will be clouded over at noon so that a meridian altitude cannot be secured. There is a way to calculate your latitude, even though the altitude you secure is taken by sextant ...
— Lectures in Navigation • Ernest Gallaudet Draper
... before the Yale ends had been able to pull the ball away from him. The result was that the touchdown was allowed. Thereupon the crowd all came onto the field and we were not able to clear it for some 10 or 15 minutes, so that there was not time enough to finish the full 45 minutes of the second-half of the game before dark. This led to some bitter discussion between Yale and Princeton as to whether the game had been played. This discussion was ...
— Football Days - Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball • William H. Edwards
... centre of the town, and each day the Boche fired his 17 in. Howitzer from dawn to dusk, mostly at the Cathedral and Cloth Hall, with occasional pauses to shoot at the Ecole de Bienfaisance, just outside the Menin gate. The shell, arriving with great regularity every 15 minutes, was generally known as the "Ypres express," for it arrived with the most terrifying roar, buried itself deep in the ground before exploding, and then made an enormous crater. As it burst, not only did every house shake, but the whole street seemed to lift a few ...
— The Fifth Leicestershire - A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, - T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. • J.D. Hills |
