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Usage examples of "trice up".
At the same time, however, the blind man quickened his pace, and in a trice up came the two cripples, in great haste, with a tremendous clatter of bowl and crutches upon the pavement.
The Frenchmen could not see the men waiting below, more than one hundred and fifty of them, ready to race up, trice up the port lids and run out the guns, which were already loaded, with handspikes, rammers and sponges lying beside them, and trigger lines neatly coiled, not in their usual place on the breech of each gun where they might be spotted by a sharp - eyed Frenchman aloft with a telescope, but on the deck.
While men sheeted home the headsails he shouted aloft to the topmen: 'Trice up and lay out!