The relation a lived life bears to the black marks on the page is more akin to the way musicians turn minims and crotchets into the sublime craziness, of, say, Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge.

I vaguely wondered how I might annotate it on a musical stave – a run of semiquavers, a minim’s pause, and triplets: presto agitato!

The patrol says the minim age for operating a motorcycle in North Dakota is 14.

Orth injected ten minims of peritoneal fluid from a woman dead of puerperal fever into the abdomen of a rabbit.

He, according to "Wegeler's Notizen," gives it with a minim—I with a crotchet; but neither of these can, to my mind, be made to suit the character of the movement.