presto

“We used to go for food at a little Italian place on Old Compton Street called Presto,” says Burston.

By simply saying those nine simple words we can magically claim anything for Islam, presto-chango.

And presto: polio returned—first in Nigeria then across Africa and into Asia, following an established migration pattern.

Toss a Cinderella- or Stockholm Syndrome-type victim into the mix and presto!

But these people are wholly on wires; laying their ears down, skimming away, pausing as though shot, and presto!

Mr. Jefferson, happening by mistake to pass over one of the many names of benefactors, and, presto!

A clerk on a stool, and hey presto plunged into the war a month after, shouldering a gun and marching.

Then Mrs. Spider came along, and she spun some glossy silk web over the places where the seams were, and presto-chango!

Victor had much difficulty in reading the notes readily and not confounding the terms adagio, presto, and sforzando.