jiffs

"I know a most trustworthy person; his name is Richard Lorton, and he will go for 'em in a brace of jiffs," said Dick.

Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

The tea's in the pot and I'll have it ready in a couple of jiffs.

Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

"I can run him up to the station in two jiffs in that."

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

"Now, I'll have a picture in just about two jiffs," she said, and pushed against the door.

Caps and Capers A Story of Boarding-School Life 1897

"All right, I'll be ready in two jiffs -- you won't forget the coat?"

The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma 1884

£arl of Derhy till after the acce0ion of that Prince j and accordingly, afterwards in the fourth or fifth jiffs of this Play, before the battle of Bojjwortb'fieldylic is everywhere callM Lord Stanley, This fttffidently jttltifies the change I have made in his title.

The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected 1773

The only Reafon why they forbid it to their Suh - jiffs, is left they fliould grow too wife, and ftrive tu (hake off the Yoke: For Wine elevates the Spi - rits, emboldens the Heart, and transforms a Slsve to a Ltrd in his own Conceit.

The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy [G.P. Marana] at Paris. Tr. [by W. Bradshaw ... 1707