8 Words to use with ticks

Tick-tock!who sets all hearts a-beating, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock!

As if to divert her mind, he reproduced for her the tick-tack of the spit in the kitchen, the shrill cry of the fish-vendors, the saw of the carpenter who had a shop opposite, and when the door-bell rang, he would imitate Madame Aubain: "Félicité!

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.

After the guard had been posted, I lay down to get some hours' sleep, which I needed,but was no sooner on the ground than a swarm of infinitesimally small creatures, of the tick genus, whose den I had invaded, came over me, and the rest was merely one sensation of becrawled misery; so that, notwithstanding great previous loss of sleep, I went again unrefreshed.

So we shall see and hear but few birds round Port of Spain, save the black vultures {87a}Corbeaux, as they call them here; and the black 'tick birds,' {87b} a little larger than our English blackbird, with a long tail and a thick-hooked bill, who perform for the cattle here the same friendly office as is performed by starlings at home.

The tick plague had ruined him as regarded his Queensland property, and the drought had made matters nearly as bad for him in New South Wales.

F., without a guinea in his pocket, and having left not many in the pockets of his friends whom he might command, had purchased (on tick doubtless) the whole and sole Editorship, Proprietorship, with all the rights and titles (such as they were worth) of the Albion, from one Lovell; of whom we know nothing, save that he had stood in the pillory for a libel on the Prince of Wales.

A third scourge responsible for frequent admissions into hospital is "tick-fever."

8 Words to use with  ticks