trice

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

In a trice she can shift registers, though, and her candor and keenness of eye translate surprisingly well to tenderness.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2018

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

"Maggot topping, all slimy and nice! I shall devour it in a trice!"

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

He attacked her gallantly, but she was heavily armed and strongly manned, and, before he could venture to run alongside, had triced up her boarding nettings.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston

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

An’ so yeou hed a wisit frum Si an’ Ed, did yeou; an’ wall, what d’ye think o’ thet, gents, here’s yer birds all triced up, ready tew be transported to jail.

From The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol by Herbert Carter

Then we triced it up, and felt that at last we were ready for whatever the fates—and the natives—might have in store for us.

From Turned Adrift by Edward S. Hodgson

Boarding-nettings she had, too, ready to be triced up in case of need; and altogether she had no occasion to dread any enemy she was at all likely to meet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various

Thorogood reached the 6-inch battery breathless, and found the guns' crews busy tricing up their mess-tables overhead.

From The Long Trick by Bartimeus

Her crew were tricing up the boarding-netting, dragging round the starboard guns, knocking new portholes for them, and making every preparation for a desperate resistance.

From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris

He lowered the foresail, and still further reduced the mainsail by tricing up the tack.

From A Desperate Voyage by Edward Frederick Knight

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