trice
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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
She stared down at him, first impassively, then, in a trice, her blue eyes filled with tears.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Got my log line strung up along 'tween decks and the whole blamed wash triced up in everybody's way.
From The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson
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
Meanwhile the divisions on deck had got hawsers over the launch amidships, the chains unbent, the anchors lashed down on the forecastle, and the quarter boats triced well inboard and secured with the davits.
From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
The leopard was quickly triced to a pole, and they were back in Kohima.
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
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
Lanyards, chain pendents, runners and tackles for tricing up, and bars and keys for securing lower deck ports In place.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
Everywhere they can be distinguished by their dress, by their enormous oiled sunshades, and by their habit of tricing their loads high up to the carrying pole.
From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison
If there are, we will reeve and bend the tricing lines at once, and see all clear for tricing up the nets.”
From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Edward S. Hodgson
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
He lowered the foresail, and still further reduced the mainsail by tricing up the tack.
From A Desperate Voyage by Edward Frederick Knight
