617 examples of ticking in sentences

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

Somewhat to his surprise he found the watch on his wrist ticking away as callously as though its owner had not experienced a prolonged lapse of consciousness.

There is that machine, glass-masked, With continual questions tasked, Ticking with untiring rock: It is called an eight-day clock.

Nobody seemed to have anything to say, and there was not even a clock in the room to break the stillness with its ticking.

But if, on moving the clock gently so as to set the pendulum in motion, we hear it wobbling about irregularly, and at the same time observe that there is no ticking of any kind, we come to the conclusion that the pendulum has somehow or other escaped the little catch that connects it with the mechanism, we have been really thinking.

From the fact that there is no ticking, we infer the same thing, for even when there is something wrong with the clock that will prevent it from going permanently, if the pendulum is set in motion by force from without it will tick for a few seconds before it comes to rest again.

In his half-consciousness there came to him but one soundthat dreadful ticking of his watch.

He seemed to have listened to it for hours when there arose another soundthe ticking of another watch.

" Captain Bligh waited in respectful silence, heedless of the fateful seconds ticking from the mantelpiece.

His red waistcoat was gone; instead he wore a sort of sleeved vest of coarse ticking, but his shining face, with the little round eyes and hooked nose, still wore the same look of merry, mischievous alertness that was so like an old parrot's.

Monsieur Tudesco, who at the moment was imbibing a glass of kümmel, pointed to his waistcoat of ticking.

He had found it impossible to replace his waistcoat of ticking.

"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.

In five minutes by the ticking clock he came out, and strode through the room without a glance at either of us.

For a moment I heard nothing but the ticking of a small silver clock on the writing-table.

It was over him, about himit was no longer a ticking, but a throb, a steady, jarring, beating throb.

He staredand that steady beat-beat-beata hundred times louder than the ticking of a watchpounded in his brain.

Here the eye travelled over numerous shelves laden with a profusion of self-recording instruments, electric batteries and switchboards, whilst the ear caught the ticking of many clocks, the gentle whir of a motor and occasionally the trembling note of an electric bell.

"Male and female created He them," said Dunkerley, ticking his way down the page.

At street corners too will stand great books in which weeping maidens will sign their names, swearing before high heaven, to wear nothing but gingham and bed-ticking for the dreary remainder of their lives.

How strangely it comes upon one that these past happenings were once only just taking place, just as at the moment of my writing other things are taking place, and clocks were ticking and water flowing, just as they are doing now!

The ticking of an old eight-day clock in the hall had a ghastly sound in the dead silence of the house, and an industrious mouse made itself distinctly heard behind the wainscot.

SEE Trapier, Elizabeth Du Gue. HITCHENS, DOLORES B. The ticking heart, by D. B. Olsen, pseud.

At last in sheer desperation he referred to the loudness of the clock's ticking.

For our maidsespecially those of the countrylook too much as if they had been made out of wooden pillows such as laborers use to lay their heads on of nightsone large bolster set on the top of two other little ones, and all three well wadded with ticking and feathers.

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