...For a while no sound was heard, even in the coffee-room, save the ticking ofthe old grandfather’s clock and the crackling of the burning wood... 
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...But the minutes ticked on with that dull monotony which they invariably seem toassume when our very nerves ache with their incessant ticking...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
... When those two arms touched one anotherthe ticking of the mechanism would cease—for ever...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles...
Rudyard Kipling 「"Captains Courageous"」
...At night we are profoundly religious; even the ticking watch says, “Eternity, eternity! hell, hell, hell!” and the silence talks of God, and the things that shall be...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...When disturbed it emits a series of low ticking notes, or darts swiftlyout from the thicket, showing itself for a moment over the water beforedisappearing once more into its hiding-place...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...Here thebirds sit perched a great deal, and repeat at intervals a song or call,composed of four or five loud ticking chirps, followed by a long trillingnote...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...When flying, a sharp,rattling twitter; when perching, a rapid, excited ticking...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...The ticking should be of the truest kind,each hair being of three distinct colours, blue, yellow, or red, andblack at the points, the cushions of the feet black, and back of thehind-legs...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
..."Five and two," the black-fellow called it, ticking the number off onthe fingers of one hand...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
...From this oscillation a ticking sound will result...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...The tick, tick, tick, ticking of the clocks sounded wonderfullyclear...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...All was still and quiet; not a sound, save the loud ticking of a timepiece,or the occasional creak of a jarring door, disturbed the solemn silence ofthe house...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Thewind blew harder and colder as the hours went by, and aboutmidnight a fine, icy snow came ticking down on the dead leaves andhissing through the brush heap...
Ernest Seton-Thompson 「Lobo, Rag and Vixen」
...du Chaillubecame apprehensive for the safety of his clock, the ticking ofwhich was likely to attract unwelcome attention...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...This insect makes a ticking noise by beating its head with great force against whatever it happens to stand on...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...But the machine has been ticking along...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
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