not lose a minute
Example Sentences
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I must not lose a minute, but great difficulties lay in the way.
From Roger Trewinion by King, Gunning
She felt that she could not lose a minute of the time that was yet left her with the child.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
"I could not lose a minute," she said.
From King Midas: a Romance by Sinclair, Upton
Come, we must not lose a minute, for I couldn't fasten the brute very well.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)
"But you say right,—I never was here before, and I don't know my way to the place you speak on; only tell me, and I'll not lose a minute."
From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
