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

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

You saw the dancer, and then in a trice you heard the music; but seven years ago this aspect of Balanchine dancing had virtually slipped away.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2015

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

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

A sail triced up was filled with water to serve as a bath.

From Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

The other bands pass downward between the dog's legs and, triced up on each side, are fastened permanently to the back-band, where there is also attached a drag-thong or pulling-trace about two feet long.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely

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

I know I triced that up properly last night.

From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Frank Gee Patchin

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

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

From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris

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

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

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