In the brief pauses of his song the old clock, from which Rudolph had removed the pendulum on the night of Agatha's death would interpose an obstinate slow ticking; and immediately the clock-noise would be drowned in melody.

Why could I not love, forgetful of the harsh ticking of the clock in the perfumed silence of the chamber?

The count rose and looked at his watcha cheap American article, with a loud tick.

No other sound broke the stillness of that quiet sunset hour save the solemn ticking of the long, old-fashioned clock at the farther end of the big, book-lined room, with its wide fireplace, great overmantel of carved stone with emblazoned arms, and its three long windows of old stained glass which gave it a somewhat ecclesiastical aspect.

what was that?" The loud ticking of Mugford's old turnip of a watch was distinctly audible in the silence which followed.

The steady tick of the clock in the corner forced itself upon his notice.

While individuals here and there grasped the full significance of what the mysterious ticking of that curious instrument foretold, they were vastly in the minority.

Now he listened to the faint monotonous ticking it made close to his head until he felt an impelling drowsiness creeping over him and he closed his eyes.

In this fashion they searched for the elusive tick-tick.

Finally it came, three faint ticks in the telephone receiver.

The lighting of the gas had frightened the cur back to his yard, and as the forty-fourth tick ceased, his bow wow! was heard again, and it lasted while the pendulum swung back and forth just fifteen times.

The noisy little clock on the mantelpiece announced the fact, and, by its frantic ticking, seemed as anxious as I to get the consultation hours over.

With lively conversation and hearty laugh the people retired, the halls were emptied, and now the deep silence of these state-apartments was only interrupted by the gentle ticking of the large clock which stood over the sofa on its handsomely ornamented stand.

He would come into my open house at daybreak, and perch on my body, and awaken me pecking at imaginary ticks.

It came to them both in that instantthe tick-tick-tick of the watch in his pocket!

But it's high time for us to be settin' our faces Towards reconstructin' the national basis, With an eye to beginnin' agin on the jolly ticks We used to chalk up 'hind the back-door o' politics; An' the fus' thing's to save wut of Slav'ry ther's lef' Arter this (I mus' call it) imprudence o'

" "Yes," said Gussie, "you look just the sort of little tick who would.

The harsh, metallic ticking of a cheap American clock was plainly, even intrusively, audible; otherwise no sound came from that chamber of death.

Now he listened to the faint monotonous ticking it made close to his head until he felt an impelling drowsiness creeping over him and he closed his eyes.

The band was playing in the upper stand, though all the sound it made for us was a low-pitched, wheezy rattle, a sort of prolonged last sigh that passed at times into a sound like the slow, muffled ticking of some monstrous clock.

Then she heard the rapid "tick, tick, tick, tick," of the little watch, and was comforted.

At first there was silence and complete darkness, but soon after one o'clock I heard the very slight but unmistakable tick-tick, which told me that the apparition was about to appear.

Heavily dragged the night; the Year Was passing, and the clock's slow tick Boomed its sad message to my ear And made me pretty sick.

He knew the reason of his doing this, for time was crawling on so slowly in the estimation of the impatient one that he even suspected the faithful little watch had ceased to go, though its steady ticking must have speedily assured him such could not possibly be the case.

I was expecting the tearful ticking off, the girlish recriminations and all the rest of the bag of tricks along those lines.