trice a window shade. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : in a trice. From Dictionary.com.
Bring clear reply in trice!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I will run to the house, and be back in a trice. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The men carried the message in a trice to the court. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
The two men prepared one of the chickens in a trice. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
In a trice they had strapped his ankles together again. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
In a trice both were "sailing free" and -- so was Jean. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
With vim he set to work, and the bed was made in a trice. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Supposed facts can be published in a trice around the globe. From Wordnik.com. [Don't make Guido Fawkes a fall guy for Hague's woes. It's just politics] Reference
He seized a stick of wood, and in a trice it was sawed through. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
A man doesn't earn food for a hundred greedy children in a trice. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
"You are hurt!" he cried in alarm and was down beside her in a trice. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
Henry tapped at the door of the inner room, and in a trice the worthy. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
He slid from the paternal knee and was off to the library in a trice. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Dalton, spoke a hurried word or two, and in a trice Nate, Lucy, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
In a trice I had seized it in both hands, barely conscious of its weight. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
A good New! idea, shrewdly implemented, can sell 600,000 copies in a trice. From Wordnik.com. [ABCs will prompt newspaper gloom – but appetite for print is still out there] Reference
It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the Alice May. From Wordnik.com. ['The Cremation of Sam McGee'] Reference
"Keep 'em up!" snarled Snake Purdee, and the flag went up again in a trice. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders] Reference
Once there matters were easy, and in a trice I had passed through the window. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
In a trice the Phoenix had pounced on the Leprechaun and pinned him to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
In a trice, he turned, threw back the door, and fled to the haven of his mother's lap. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
In a trice he was on hands and knees, to rejoin his master who was roaring with laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
The magazine ABCs show good ideas will sell in a trice, so how should we look at Fleet Street. From Wordnik.com. [ABCs will prompt newspaper gloom – but appetite for print is still out there] Reference
In a trice their hands and feet were bound, and handkerchiefs were stuffed into their mouths. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls on the March Bessie King's Test of Friendship] Reference
Then in a trice the knapsacks were hidden in a tree, and the pair were ready to start for town. From Wordnik.com. [The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers] Reference
He was landed inboard in a trice, and handed over to the tender mercies of the forecastle hands. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
In a trice he had snapped the padlock and had come back to the three girls huddled under the tree. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
He said never a word, but in a trice had his knife out, cut off his puttee and looked at his ankle. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
In a trice, Susan had propped him up and was feeding him with the stew, which seemed to revive him. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
Two of his men sprang at the prisoner and in a trice had stripped him to the skin from the waist up. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
In a trice he had thrown his leg up over the tree, his practice in the gymnasium making this an easy feat. From Wordnik.com. [The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers] Reference
Running to his parents 'bedroom he told them of his going, and was down the stairs and out into the street in a trice. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference
She stayed beautifully, even under the single sail, and in a trice was lying well upon the other tack, as we stood out to sea. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
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