seconds
/ˈsɛk.əndz/ noun A1- A second helping of food for one person, or refill of coffee or other drink. · There is plenty of pie left, if you have room for seconds.
- An item of clothing that has failed quality control and is sold at a discount · It was marked as seconds, but I can't find anything wrong with it.
- Any article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; especially, a coarse or inferior kind of flour.
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I rose to my feet, stared at him for some seconds in utter amazement, and then it appears that I must have fainted for the first and the last time in my life.
“Oh,” said Dantès timidly, “what is the matter?” Villefort made no answer, but raised his head at the expiration of a few seconds, and again perused the letter.
I rushed down—I don’t suppose it was thirty seconds before I was in the room.”
Trembling, his hair erect, his brow bathed with perspiration, he counted the seconds by the beating of his heart.
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