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

There were books lying on the table and flowers in the window, a handsome cat purred in front of the fireplace, and on a bracket in one corner an asthmatic clock ticked off the hours with wheezy vigor.

It was a kind of reaction which frequently followed moments of intense activity and, realizing its significance, she yielded to it sulkily, her gaze on the face of the clock which was ticking off purposeless minutes with maddening precision.

The town-hall clock was made to tick German time, which varied by an even hour from French time.

Those ten minutes were surely the longest which had ever ticked their way into Eternity!

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

"Say no more, and I'll make it a quart," replied the red-faced man, ticking off the last case and turning up the new one, in which a doctor was already giving his evidence against a woman charged with the wilful murder of her newly-born male child.

" "Have you ever found me unreasonable?" ticked my friend.

The term drew to a close, and most of the boys in my form-room ticked off the days on lists, in which the Sundays were written in red ink to show that they did not really count.

The telegraph operators all over the world send "Morse" when they tick off the dots and dashes of the alphabet, and happily I can prove that this is not an honor filched from another.

The clock ticked, the blue flames murmured in the grate, and the pellets of sand thrown up by the wind rattled against the windows.

There wore two broad landings on the stairs, the lower one just the place for an old clock to tick out its impressive "ForeverNeverNeverForever" <i>à la</i> Longfellow.

The clock ticked loudly in the silence of the old room, the hands moving slowly towards ten.

Driving here in the car today to award the kind prizes, I was reluctantly compelled to tick off my host on this very point.

On the rear wall the yellow face of the old self-regulating clock, that had gayly ticked so many men into the electric chair, leered shamelessly across at the blind goddess.

She ticked the message off on her fingers.

We ticked off the miles at a good steady marching pace, and in course of time turned out of our long, dusty, winding lane on to a wide cobbled main road, leading evidently into the town of Ypres itself, now about two miles ahead.

While he was speaking, I ticked off the news of our being held up, and asked the agent if there had been any men about Sanders, or if he had seen any one board the train there.

Mrs. Gribble ticked off "ninety-nines" until her husband's ears ached with them.

I'll tell you what they are," he went on bending forward in his lounge chair and looking from one to the other of the faces around him and beginning to tick off his points on the tips of his fingers.

Are you sure, my dear madame, that you can pass without detection as a Frenchwoman or a French-Belgian?" Madame Gilbert put up her left hand, and began to tick off her qualifications.

I stood there thinking of Madge, and listening heedlessly as the instrument ticked off the cipher signature of the sending operator, and the "twenty-four paid."

A china clock, the centerpiece of the mantel, ticked spang into the silence, enhancing it.

Except for the time when the curate tripped over a loose shoelace and fell down the pulpit steps, I don't think I have ever had a more wonderful moment than when good old Bottle suddenly started ticking Tom off from the platform.

Calmly he seated himself at the instrument and ticked off the inspired words in the dots and dashes of the Morse alphabet.