eyewink

Now they had technology that could create vehicles capable of crossing that distance in literally an eyewink.

So rapid is this movement that "quick as a wink" is a common phrase to signify speed, and the German word for "an instant" is ein Augenblick ("an eyewink").

"And have at them, he did, Prehsvootehros Ehlyuhtl" There, in the hot, sun-drenched courtyard of Morguhn Hall, in an eyewink of time, Geros relived the darkness, coo-fusion and icy-cold crawling fear.