And Dane had been right, there they found the Hoobat, crouched at the closed panel, its claws clicking against the metal as it picked away useless at the portal which would not admit it.
Instantly the cabin was filled with a clicking so loud as to make an almost continuous drone of sound.
Mingled with their sharp notes, like theclicking of pebbles, came the gentle whisper of the white-throated sparrow, and from a nearby thicket one of them gave its strange minor song.
As we moved through the swishing grass, suddenly we heard a curious clicking bird-note.
The little mother-bird chipped frantically, with a clicking note which the Architect said always made him think that she carried pebbles in her throat.
He knew what despatches would be coming from the far South when the telegraph line began the busy clicking of the morning.
The room which had been the scene of these various colloquies became silent save for the continuous clicking of the telegraph keys.
Arrelsford stepped to the door, and Foray busied himself with the clicking instruments.
Thorne stepped to the table and bent over the clicking key.
All right," said Thorne, and the next moment the operator turned away while the clicking of the key called Thorne to the table.
Even the clicking of the typewriter will turn into the sound of clicking hoofs, the streets will become canyons, and the noise of traffic the roar of the mountain torrent!
With Lily clicking along at the Wildcat's heels, the pair entered the portals of the Grand Central Station.
The Wildcat took a deep breath and held on to it until he read on the clicking cubes the final message of disaster.
The Backslid Baptist departed for the third car ahead, where in the smoking room the galloping ivory was clicking strong on the linoleum.
Mother called down through the upstairs shutters, at the first clicking of the knives, to ask if I wore my rubbers in the dew.
There have been warm winds out of the south for several days, soft rains have teased the daffodils into blossom along the fences, and this morning I heard the first clicking of a lawn-mower.
That heartbreaking instant passed, and the clicking began again.
He could still see only the white haze of the moonshine before him, but now there was the clicking of hoofs on the rock.
The clicking of the microtome ceased, and the demonstrator looked at his watch, rose, thrust his hands into his pockets, and walked slowly down the laboratory towards the lecture theatre door.
Can you blame me," clicking the latch back and forth, "when all the world has suddenly grown dark?
It is jolly to be rich," said Ethel, clicking her skates together.
As I approached I heard a click-clicking noise, by which I surmised there was some person within the ruined walls.
The clicking sound I had heard proceeded from a flint and the back of a knife, with which the old man was endeavouring to strike a light to kindle the little pile of faded heather that lay in a corner.
That's right," Clinton confirmed; clickingto his watch.
If she did not hear the clicking of the keys, she might conclude that Grace was absent, and enter.
The clicking and banging of the typewriters, and the hum of voices ceased.
It may have been the clicking and banging of these machines that gave to Cameron the sense of rush and hurry so different from the calm quiet and dignified repose of the only office he had ever known.
Opening the door, Cameron found himself confronted by a short counter that blocked the way for the general public into the long room, filled with desks and chairs and clicking typewriting machines.
After the interview he went about his duties as before and Hetty sat down at her desk and took the telegraphic news that came clicking over the wire as if nothing important in her life had occurred.
He had now sold two, so that there were three Reapers clicking through the grain-fields in the Summer of 1840.
His Reapers were now clicking merrily in more than three thousand American wheat-fields.
In the accounting office there began again the clicking of typewriters, and Clark, at his desk, dictated a dispatch to Philadelphia.
The private car swung along over the clicking rail joints and the directors glanced without interest at the country they traversed.
Before Atherton's eyes swept a vision of the seething brokerage offices, the eager crowds, the whirring, clicking tickers, the dreamers of dreams that were destined never to come true.
This denouement seemed to confuse them, for they slowly extricated themselves from their tangle and withdrew for a short distance, where they again formed and stood glaring at me for a few minutes, clicking their jaws angrily.
Suddenly the ants wheeled and converged from all four points of the compass, clicking their mandibles savagely as they came.
As evening drew on I heard the clicking of the amber beads, and the Archimandrite appeared.
He drew his finger across his throat, dropped his head on one side, and gave a clicking gasp so horribly realistic that I suspect it was studied from nature.
Some of these signs hung above resorts of clicking wheels and green baize tables; more than once in the past month on such tables he had doubled many times over a paltry stake with that satiric luck which smiles on the uncaring.
He swiftly turned theclicking combination of the safe, wrenched open the door and took out two heavy canvas bags.
The sordid affairs of a mining town across the ranges had little interest for Aniston, but the names of Stires and Moreau on the clicking wire had waked it, thus late, to the sensation.
