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On 15 July 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 probe sent back grainy images of Mars, revealing a forbidding surface that destroyed florid Victorian speculation in a trice.

From Nature ● Jan. 7, 2019

We’d hired someone to help us sort through our belongings—keep it, sell it, give it away—Patty could get rid of anything in a trice.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2018

War, as we know, changes everything, and in a trice it had changed my father.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2017

He was maybe three feet from the net, but somehow, in a trice, managed to extend his left arm sideways and tilt his racquet head down toward his thighs.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 30, 2016

My fingers could travel the distance in a trice.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

Do you notice, Mr Gadsby, that she has no nettings triced up on her port side?

From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Edward S. Hodgson

I found her a rakish-looking vessel with her boarding netting triced up.

From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan

A flag flies from his top-gallant—in plain English, his hat—while a Union Jack is fixed at the forepeak and an anchor is triced up at the bows, in readiness for “heaving-to.”

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Blocks and tackles were then made fast to the end of the fore and main booms, the booms were triced up at an angle to serve as derricks, and the hatch-covers were stripped off.

From A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas by Archibald Webb

The door was triced up to form an outer shelter, and Barbara was a trifle astonished when Brooke signed them to enter.

From A Damaged Reputation by Harold Bindloss

“I’ll rig up a whip from the foreyard and we can let down a hammock for ’em, tricing up one at a time.”

From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Henry Austin

Those used for the hammocks, or tricing up the bags between the beams on the lower-deck.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

In a moment, cutting the tricing lines of her boarding nettings, they sprang up her side and threw themselves on the deck.

From True Blue by William Henry Giles Kingston

“Good!” said I. “Then let them be brought on deck at once, and see that all is ready for tricing them up, should those boats succeed in getting dangerously near to us.”

From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Edward S. Hodgson

The work of tricing him up occupied the beach-combers throughout the entire day.

From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris