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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

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

She stared down at him, first impassively, then, in a trice, her blue eyes filled with tears.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Will my dead wife's family be less bereaved because of two kegs of peef and three tins of biscuit, or Rosalie's family less disgraced because her uncle was triced through the streets like a big?

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne

I like not being triced up between two halbards.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The ports were triced up, and brilliant sunshine flooded the gundeck.

From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Lines extended from the jib-boom end around the ship, triced up to the lower yard-arms, for drying scrubbed hammocks.

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

Its name, on a life-buoy triced to the rusty netting between the rails, was the Olive Branch, but its port of registry had been painted out.

From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas

Moran dragged the hammock back into the cabin, and, returning upon deck, helped Wilbur to cut away the last tricing tackle.

From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris

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

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

“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