Read full poem →Three times thrice the world has fallen on slumber,
Shone and waned and withered in a trice,
Frost has fettered Thames and Tyne and Humber
Dictionary Entry
To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
. tricethompson tricetrice ernesttrice editrice harrisontrice duncantrice willie
Missing dictionary details are being fetched in the background.
Antonyms
No antonyms yet.
Related Words
Poetry examples for “trice”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Of the Galilee dream,
When you flashed in a trice, as later you smote with the sword:
"Thou art Christ, even Lord!"
Read full poem →In a humorous way like Fielding or Smollett
That turns in a trice to Robert La Follette
Or retraces to Thales of Crete,
Read full poem →"Here lies all that no one loved of him
And that loved no one." Then in a trice that
whim
Read full poem →But your friend there, the Doctor, eats nothing at all."
"Oho!" quoth my friend, "he'll come on in a trice:
He's keeping a corner for something that's nice;
Read full poem →But your friend there, the Doctor, eats nothing at all.’
‘O—Oh!’ quoth my friend, ‘he’ll come on in a trice,
He’s keeping a corner for something that’s nice: 100
Read full poem →The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice
Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute.
Read full poem →Just in the Nick the Cook knocked thrice,
And all the Waiters in a trice
Read full poem →LUDES ERE TYEE. 5S if a ers ne A ee A Nee BU Pepe 5
TRICE SSC RS TUTE Se aes 0 5 ed a g
AM MM PIS EMITS eu as ae OeS OLE ITS crv tail he wet eSowaaues 12