not lose a minute

"The right did not lose a minute before striking an alliance ... unlike them we've wanted to discuss matters first."

"I went to the director of the competition... but I was told that it was not possible because we could not lose a minute," Mr Alvarez said.

Mrs. Falkland still hesitated; but Isadore continued rapidly, "Run, Harry, up to the house as fast as ever you can go; bring down Mr. Gibson and any of the men you can find, and do not lose a minute."

"Come, messieurs, come," I cried; "this is a dispensation of Providence, let us not lose a minute!—You cannot go with us, Fr�d�rique, but you will soon see us again, and something tells me that we shall bring Mignonne back with us."

He saw me, and he will not lose a minute without bringing help; and then—” And then she stopped as if paralysed, for the thought came upon her with a flash that, though the Reverend Arthur Rosebury had seen her, he had only gazed upon a tall, swarthy Malay woman, in whom he could not possibly have recognised Helen Perowne.