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When we came near the churchyard, we had to cross an embankment, and get over a stile near a sluice-gate. "Halloa!" he growled, "where are you two going?" "Where should we be going, but home?" "Well, then," said he, "I'm jiggered if I don't see you home!" This penalty of being jiggered was a favorite supposititious case of his.
And Josiah sez to me, "I'll be jiggered, Samantha, if this man at this age of the world don't know where Jonesville is." "Well," sez I coolly, "we hain't expected to civilize all creation, Josiah." And as we had jest come to the entrance of the Tyoleran Alps I wouldn't let Josiah stop and parley with him any furder. He wuz kinder snickerin' to himself, a ignorant onmannerly creeter.
They stepped out into the cluttered living room and came face to face with a young man who seemed more startled at seeing them than they had been at sight of him. "Well, I'll be jiggered!" he exclaimed, and at sound of the commonplace phrase the girls could have hugged the speaker in relief. Also they felt a rather hysterical desire to laugh long and foolishly.
Felicity, pale and tearful, dropped on her knees and lifted the cretonne frill of the sofa. There, his head pillowed hardly on Uncle Roger's boots, lay Jimmy Patterson, still sound asleep! "Well, I'll be jiggered!" said Uncle Roger. "I KNEW he never went out of the door," cried Dan triumphantly.
He recognised him in an instant, as he must have done had he met him in the most crowded street of a great city, so distinctively peculiar was his figure. "David! David Gidge!" he gasped, recovering his voice for the effort, and in another moment, flinging his arms about the astonished mariner's neck, he was pouring out a flood of incoherent words. "Wal, I'll be jiggered!" remarked Mr.
He had made a sudden rush under my bank, but there he lay again like a stone. How long? Ah! I cannot tell how long! I heard the church clock strike, but missed the number of the strokes. Soon he started again down-stream into the shallows, leaping at the end of his rush the monster. Then he came slowly up, and 'jiggered' savagely at the line.
They seemed to be a multitude of dewdrops shaken from the depths of some big rose, and dropped into the midst of a rainbow. "Oh!" cried Betty, shrinking back. "Oh!" She could say no more. "Look!" whispered Grace, and her voice was hoarse. "Well, I'll be jiggered!" gasped Will. "Diamonds!" cried Allen. "Betty, you've discovered a fortune in diamonds!"
"Don't you think it would be a joke, Lord Saltoun, to see my brother and his merry men, with their bows and bills, marching down to Somerset all in Lincoln green instead of Lincoln and Bennet hats?" "No," answered Old Saltoun, "I don't think it would be a joke. I think it would be an exceedingly serious and sensible idea." "Well, I'm jiggered!" cried Harry Fisher, staring at him.
He attached no definite meaning to the word that I am aware of, but used it, like his own pretended Christian name, to affront mankind, and convey an idea of something savagely damaging. When I was younger, I had had a general belief that if he had jiggered me personally, he would have done it with a sharp and twisted hook.
I swear if it wasn't so late, I'd get Gaston over here to listen to your views. Gaston is open to all kinds of tommy-rot that has a new mark on it. I'll be jiggered if I don't believe Gaston will want to pay you a salary to keep you here just for a diversion. But take my advice, and keep to old-fashioned lines, to-morrer 'specially, when you come to the marrying. Lord! Lord!
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