Something seemed to tick suddenly, somewhere deep in my consciousness.
I was aware of the soft little tick in the center of my brain that announced that the switch had been moved to another contact point.
The average child, under the same local conditions, can hear the same watch tick at a distance of twenty-one feet.
Next time we have to tick off we'll press him into our service.
It means you will have to tick off a whole month's work.
The bed in one corner had been stripped of its coverlets, many of them slashed by a knife, and the strawtick had been ripped open in a dozen places.
To remove the debris out of our way, I was gathering up the straw tick and slit blankets, and piled them all together back on the bed.
The contrast between India and Germany in this respect is very marked, as at a small hotel in Berlin at which I stopped the bed had a sheet and a feather tick for a covering.
Nowadays few cattle are left to sons by fathers, as tick fever has almost bared the country of this means of food and barter.
In one case the sheet was not sufficient covering; in the other the tick was too much.
The stillness was broken only by the creaking of old Morley's Sunday boots and the slow deep tick of the clock in the belfry.
The silence of the room was broken only by the crackling of the big logs and the slow tick of the grandfather clock in the corner by the door, till suddenly the church clock chimed the hour of nine across the hills.
The tick of the clock runs faint and low, and she opens the mysterious door and proceeds to wind it up.
The quick tick of the locusts, all winding their watches at once, sounded loud and clear in the silence.
It has a sentient tremor as it hugs the track, and hurls itself along sixty feet for every tick of the clock--as if you should walk twenty paces while your heart beats once!
The worst pest is, however, the cattle tick or Garrapata, and known under the scientific name of Boophilus Annulatus.
This is a tick which has been, and still is, the terror of the north.
These are the principles on which the Santa Fé Land Company have been working, and they confidently predict that before long they will be selling pedigree bulls with tick on them.
I could hear the clock tick slowly on the mantelpiece, and the beating of my own heart that raced and outstripped it.
Her listener, having no idea of what brocade might be, and taking the feather-tick simile literally, must have imagined a very queer kind of chair.
For though they may but tickand toy with thee at first, their sword may reach thy heart-blood at last.
Still another balks at an incline in the mantelpiece, so slight that nobody can see it, and will not tick even.
And make the clock tick slower," put in Christopher eagerly.
For a long moment there was only the tick of the clock and the rumble of distant thunder.
The old clock whose loud tick had not failed as long as he could remember had run down!
The dog-tick is not unlike a small bean; which resemblance has caused a bean, commonly cultivated as food for horses, to be called the tick-bean.
The dog-tick (Ixodes Ricinus), if when young and active it moves in the same way that it does when swoln to an enormous size with blood, seems to afford an exception to the mode of walking just described.
We've put in seventy pound of best feathers, and I think that's as many as the tick will fairly hold.
Grandfer Cantle, you turn the tick the right way outwards, and then I'll begin to shake in the feathers.
There was no sound for a time save the monotonous click, click of the knitting needles, keeping up a sort of recitative duet with the tick, tick of the clock.
The tickof the clock would not keep time with the scratch of Clare's pen.
The tick of the clock in the hall and the flutter of turning pages alone broke the silence.
She could hear the bell tinging shrilly within, but there was no other sound save the tick of the solemn little grandmother on the inner side of the wall.
The tick of the hall clock, for instance, was aggressive, insistent, maddening in its precise monotony.
One boy is chosen Stag; he runs about the playground with his clasped hands held palms together in front of him, trying to tick (= touch) others.
Tick A game mentioned by Drayton, and still played in Warwickshire.
The Transmission of Rocky Mountain Fever by the Bite of the Wood-tick (Dermacentor occidentalis).
The Nature of Human Tick Fever in the Eastern Part of the Congo Free State with Notes on the Distribution and Bionomics of the Tick.
In Central Africa where the disease is very prevalent a certain common tick (Ornithodoros moubata) (Fig.
Studies in Pyroplasmosis hominis (Spotted Fever orTick Fever of the Rocky Mountains).
Further investigations and experiments proved conclusively that this parasite was transmitted from the infected to the well animal only by the common cattle tick now known as the Texas fever tick (Fig.
Takes position that these experiments connect the tick with the transmission of the fever.
That the period between the tick bite and the onset of the disease in the many animals he has experimented with corresponds very closely to this period as observed in man.
The infection is not direct, that is, the tick does not feed on one host then pass to another carrying the disease germs with it.
Cooley of Montana, from whose report the above quotation is taken, has also made studies of the habits of the tick and believes there can be no doubt that it is the disseminator of the disease.
Tick-tick went the unseen clock on the wide staircase.
