trice

“Nowadays it often seems writing is nothing at all,” Duras recorded in it presciently, years before the internet made everyone a créateur or -trice.

At least a hundred people died in that one, including 15 who were standing on bridges marveling at the rush of waters when, in a trice, the waters tore away the bridges.

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

In a trice they were back, moist snouts poking from the excavation.

Healy was later accused of “tricing” some of the mutineers – that is, tying their hands behind their backs, then hanging them so that their toes barely touched the deck.