In a jiffy seventeen youngsters were assembled in line, tin plate and cup in hand.
Then she put the kettle on the cook stove and in another jiffy she was pouring out the tea.
Come, show me your paces," and in a jiffy this swift girl had Drunkard chained to a veranda post, and had seized a new riding bridle that someone had thrown on a chair.
It rang out startlingly clear in the still night air, and in a jiffy Mr. Talker came tearing down the road, dressing as he came, and the Macedonian rolled heavily along from the carriage-house.
Your Dad is a perfectly splendid man," said Dallas enthusiastically.
In a jiffy they could cut a slot in the side of a pumpkin leaf stem and make us a horn to blow.
I quickly raised one side of the hood, leaned across the cold fender, and in a jiffy I had both faucets open.
In a jiffy the bed-clothes are whipped off the slumbering lads, and in less than no time the latter, pillows in hand, make common cause against the aggressor.
Why, the cart outfit was only a speck in the path of this darkly rushing avalanche which would swallow them all in a jiffy and never know; would mash them flat!
He spurred his horse and in a jiffy was beside it.
She put the kettle over, and told Violet to set two places at the table, and Toby to clean some trout, and in a jiffy she had a pan of trout on the stove frying.
The servant went off and returned in a jiffy with the intelligence that neither door, nor shed, nor people were there.
Afterwards, when he mounted it and gave it its head, it flew, flew like a bird, and in a jiffy arrived at the dragon's palace.
Both began immediately to rinse and wash, and in a jiffy the black wool became as white as fresh-fallen snow.
She came flying back in a jiffy with two big milk pails.
She was back in a jiffywith the matches, which she proceeded to divide among them, while the horses leaped forward again.
In a jiffy the horse had cleared a fence, and was running, with the feet of terror, in a dusty road.
In a jiffy it bunted our own hull and canvas, and again we began to plough the water.
For a jiffy I could see only, here and there, a leaping glow in the tree-tops.
In a jiffy Mary Jane forgot all about wanting to sit down.
So the children all helped and in a jiffy the pretty, grassy spot where they had eaten lunch was as clean and tidy as when they came.
Jackie and Peggs together, and in a jiffy they had them in their arms.
That I will," said Tommy, and in a jiffy he had gnawed them free.
In a jiffy they had him out and sitting on the Dog's back.
A jiffy later, we were all inside his cellar, and scrambling up his cellar steps into his warm cabin.
I walked out to the gate with him, and for a jiffy we just stood and looked at each other, both of us with worried looks on our faces.
In a jiffy I was on my way and in another jiffy I was there, standing on the second from the top rung of the ladder.
In almost a half a jiffy all of us were in a whirling snowstorm, and I knew the new cold wave had already come, and that before spring got to Sugar Creek we'd have a lot more winter--in fact there might even be a blizzard.
A jiffy later, Pop came out to the car, bringing Tom with him, and all of us except Mom drove on toward Shorty Long's house to get Shorty's mother.
A jiffylater I was looking at Mr. Black stopping his big horse at Circus's house.
A jiffy later I reached my pop's new ladder and started to start up when I heard somebody running behind me and saying in a husky whisper, "Hey, Bill!
The slides of the officer's lanterns, however, were opened at once, and in a jiffy the door was guarded.
The thick glass of the door was splintered in a jiffy and vicious hands, armed with bludgeons and cutting tools, stretched through the bars at the traitor who had twice cheated them.
The door was locked in a jiffy and presently they were bumping over the cobblestones.
In troth in a jiffy I will knock off the job, and by J---- it shall be properly well done!
A couple of turns having been taken round the saddle horn, Roany scratched and tugged, the old cow struggled a bit, and in a jiffy the brave little horse "snaked" her through.
Reaching the river, they scrambled down the steep slope, leaving their horses to graze on the level, and in a jiffy were enjoying a swim in the "Big Muddy.
Come quick, girlies, we’ll have to bustle our things into the car in a jiffy and make for home.
If I see a car anywhere around the station I’ll take it in a jiffy and we’ll drive as fast as possible for that boat.
In a jiffy he was back and with two or three deft touches he tossed a robe over each girl, covered Mary Jane’s bobbed hair and Alice’s braids with lace head-dresses and showed them where to stand behind the queen.
She pulled Mary Jane into the living room in a jiffy and showed her a big book of pictures she had been looking at.
In less than half a jiffy I reached out my hand sort of easy, and took the paper out of her hand, and then I gin her a smile, as much as to say, aint I a careless shote?
It didn't seem more than a half a jiffy when we drew up co-wallop right afore Jase's house.
It warn't half a jiffyafore the door was opened, and a great strapping nigger stood inside, staring at me as if he meant to swaller me hull, without vinegar or gravy sarce.
However that may be, Billy jumped into it in a jiffy and found that it fitted him to perfection.
And in a jiffy out he stepped as bright and shiny as a new coin.
And snap, the Night Mare, had broken her hitching-strap and was off in a jiffy with Gammon and Spinach and all the other dream sprites running pell-mell after her as fast as they could go.
Light," he cried, and in a jiffy he had pulled his candle out of his pocket and lighted it.
In a jiffy the dirt was shoveled in and up sprang--a gum tree.
I know that black marks were what teachers used to give us to show that our deportment wasn't good," and in a jiffy Billy had covered Nickel Plate's back with black marks.
