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trice
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synonyms: jigtime, stound, throw, before you can say Jack Robinson, pissing while, interphrastically, in a brace of shakes ???
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Definition:an instant; a brief moment of time
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Buck was beset by three huskies, and in a trice his head and shoulders were ripped and slashed.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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If I weren’t bleeding, old Alec would be up here in a trice,
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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I started up in the greatest haste imaginable; and, in a trice, clapped my ladder to the middle place of the rock,
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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a knack of facetious mimicry, and a man's career might be made in a trice.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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“[...] Pompey, bring me that leg!” Here Pompey handed the bundle, a very capital cork leg, already dressed, which it screwed on in a trice; and then it stood up before my eyes.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Man That Was Used Up (1839)
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