On minutely examining each child on these points, one by one, and endeavouring, by varied and familiar language and cross-questioning, without confusing their ideas, to ascertain the knowledge which they possessed on these first principles, we accurately, and at the time, minuted the result, distinguishing those points which they understood, and those which they did not.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall
The incidents of each day are minuted down in a dry, unambitious style, bearing the clear impress of truth.
"The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada"
Francis Parkman
I have minuted these birds with my watch for an hour together, and have found that they return to their nests, the one or the other of them, about once in five minutes; reflecting at the same time on the adroitness that every animal is possessed of as regards the well-being of itself and offspring.
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert