Minims

The little ants known as minims tend the gardens, and they can be also found riding atop the leaves being brought home by the big ants. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

However, the monks, called minims, of St. Francesco di ❋ Unknown (2004)

Skrritch nodded and began to clean her other eye, shooing away the distraught minims. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Entomologists have puzzled for a long time over why the minims would waste their time hitching rides like this. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

Counterpoint is largely note against note, and the textures are dense and busy throughout, with motion most consistently in minims and semibreves. ❋ Lu (2009)

Cantus-firmus writing is rarer in Lassus than in Palestrina, but on occasion Lassus could revert to the kind of cantus-firmus procedure used by Josquin and Obrecht; Homo cum in honore esset six voices; published 1566 has a soggetto cavato as cantus firmus on the text ‘Nosce te ipsum’, heard successively in breves, semibreves and minims. ❋ Lu (2009)

The hitchhiking minims patrol the leaves or perch on top, their mandibles open. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Let run 1 quart of veinous blood from the elbow and administer 5 minims of ticture of laudanum at every high-tide until the subject quiets. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ms. Dessay can roll off exact coloratura leaps and strings of micro-minims the way most of us breathe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They also rehabilitating widow women by funding them and supporting poor students to minims drop out ratio in the district. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The great ladies of old flaunted their love-affairs, with newspapers and advertisements; in these days the lady has her little passion neatly ruled like a sheet of music with its crotchets and quavers and minims, its rests, its pauses, its sharps to sign the key. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He enjoyed taking piano lessons for a while and he started to read notes and enjoyed re teaching his mother the minims, crotchets, quavers, scales and staccato. ❋ Linda (2007)