The clock ticked loudly.

Adolphus whitewashed, according to promise; Pauline scrubbed, according to nature; they arranged and rearranged their little stock of furniture,set the loud-ticking day-clock on the mantel-shelf, and displayed around it the china cups, the flower-vase, and the little picture of their native town which Adolphus cut from a sheet of letter-paper some old friend had sent him, and framed with more tender feeling than skill.

The clockwork ticked steadily.

A bronze clock ticked roundly from the mantel, balanced at either side by a pair of blue-glass cornucopias with warts blown into them.

There was in the air that odor of paint and carpet which prevails on steamboats; the glass drops of the chandeliers ticked softly against each other, as the vessel shook with her respiration, like a comfortable sleeper, and imparted a delicious feeling of coziness and security to our travelers.

But on the wall the old clock which pointed out the trying moment ticked calmly on. One after another I saw and heard the orators.

A beautiful old eight-day clock ticked solemnly to the flickering of the hall lamp.

Becoming instantly alert, his senses perceived a stoppage of everything; the clocks seemed to tick more faintly, he could no longer hear the woman breathe.

"There's to be hot chocolate for us down stairs at half past four," said Dorothy, jumping up and looking at a clock that was ticking industriously on a shelf.

They thought we were mad, but the clocks pleased them; and they sat round our tents and shook them to make them tick louder until Louis cried out in his fever that all the world was a great clock that ticked.

How marvelously fire, din and smoke shriveled up the time, which the captain's small clock so mincingly ticked off.

Over in a corner a grandfather's clock ticked the seconds awayslowly, monotonously, as though very weary of its task.

One cold December day in 1901, Guglielmo Marconi sat still in a room in the Government building at Signal Hill, St. Johns, Newfoundland, with a telephone receiver at his ear and his eye on the clock that ticked loudly nearby.

She must obviously be properly ticked off and made to return him to store.

nay, it is," ticked my watch, persistently.

We have had our critical moments, but" "But now," proudly ticked my watch, "now we have weathered the Cape Horn of adversity and doubt, and ride secure upon the deep Pacific sea of prosperity and certainty.

The old time-piece overhead ticked soberly, and the soft face of Redbud's mother looked down from its frame upon them; and the room was full of cheerfulness and light.

An old clock ticked sturdily in one corner.

" "But the fact must be made known," ticked my watch, thoughtfully.

And, anyhow, the ripple gurgled under the prow, the motor ticked tranquilly, and the bubbles danced in the wake.

"Don't you think," unobtrusively ticked my watch, "that the exhortation to encourage home-industry has a peculiar force just now?

The grandfather's clock is ticking audibly.

In a corner of the room an old-fashioned clock ticked wheezily.

But these are some of the possibilitiesnews service supplied to subscribers at their homes, the important items to be ticked off on each private instrument automatically, "Marconigraphed" from the editorial rooms; the sending and receiving of messages from moving trains or any other kind of a conveyance; the direction of a submarine craft from a safe-distance point, or the control of a submarine torpedo.

Over in a corner a grandfather's clock ticked the seconds awayslowly, monotonously, as though very weary of its task.