188 examples of triced in sentences

A wondrous change came in a trice, And she was foul no more.

" He rode from her, straight and massive in the saddle, up the slope among the big-boled trees, and in a trice out of sight.

Then they carried Sharkey to the gun and they triced him sitting over the port-hole, with his body about a foot from the muzzle.

Gone in a trice on such good business.

Well, father, to be sped of money with a trice, What will you give me? TEN.

I'll show you a trick of the twelves, and turn him over the thumbs with a trice; I'll make him fly swifter than meditation.

moment, instant, second, minute; twinkling, trice, flash, breath, crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time.

See Browning's inspiring poem, Rabbi Ben Ezra, XXIII, XXIV, XXV: "Not on the vulgar mass Called "work," must sentence pass, Things done, which took the eye and had the price; O'er which, from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice:

In a trice the savage little brute was on me.

Whilst he was away natives went off to trade and behaved remarkably well, with the exception of one man who was caught making off with the half-hour glass, so Mr. Hicks had him triced up, and he was given a dozen lashes.

The culprit was first sent on board and put in irons, the natives and the crew mustered, and then the thief was taken on shore and triced up.

In a trice the dacoits had them down, unsheathed, and, oh, bitter blow!

The four Sahebs were in the verandah in a trice, and soon discovered the chowkidar returning to the verandah, visibly shaken and without his blanket.

"Stop a moment," he cried; "I will warm it in a trice"; and stepping up to the fire he warmed his hands, and then laid them upon the face, but it remained cold.

Now, as cruel fate would have it, there was just within the nag's reach, a tub full of wine lees, which, luckless moment for him, (being thirsty) he unceremoniously quaffed off in a trice, without even here's to you.

"Has not that ship her nettings triced to the rigging?" he demanded, in a voice that was lowered to the tones necessary to escape observation, and which betrayed, at the same time, the interest he took in the reply.

The boarding-nettings, it is true, were triced to the rigging, as on the previous day; but a sufficient apology was to be found for this act of extreme caution, in the war, which exposed her to attacks from the light French cruisers, that so often ranged, from the islands of the West-Indies, along the whole coast of the Continent, and in the position the ship had taken, without the ordinary defences of the harbour.

The lud waited for no more; he was down in a trice, and telling his adventure; a second immediately ascended, laughing at the folly of his companion, but returned even more quickly declaring that he was quite sure that a voice, not of this world, had cried in his ear, 'It blows hard.'

Her lower yards were slung, her ports triced up, and her guns run out all ready for action.

ORDONNATEUR, TRICE, qui ordonne.

USAGE, m., coutume; emploi. USER, détériorer par l'usage. DE, faire usage de. USURPATEUR, TRICE, personne qui s'empare par ruse ou violence de ce qui appartient à un autre.

SEE FINCH, VERNOR C. TRICE, MATTIE POWELL.

Hazel Trice Phillips (C); 5Jan70; R478068.

In your house you haue a Warehouse which they call Godon, which is made of bricke to put your goods in, for oftentimes they take fire and burne in an houre foure or fiue hundred houses: so that if the Gordon [sicKTH] were not, you should bee in danger to haue all burned, if any winde should rise, at a trice.

He had been triced up and lashed till he fainted had been revived and lashed again.

188 examples of  triced  in sentences