The seconds of time which made up that first minute ticked away without action on his part.
When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill, and ticked it off.
My self-approval when I ticked an entry was quite a luxurious sensation.
The old clock ticked away furiously, as if rejoicing that weary days were over for the pet and darling of the house: nothing else broke the silence.
The old clock in the corner hummed andticked through the deep silence like the humble voice of the home she toiled to keep warm, thanking her, comforting her.
Amory had ticked off these purchases on a slip of paper, as also she had those of turpentine and paraffin, boiled oil and soap and firewood and tins of distemper.
It was as if, though only degree by degree had the pleasant things of life ticked away from her, the escapement was now removed from her memory, allowing all with a buzz to run down to a dead stop.
A little insect behind the wall-paper against which he leaned his disconsolate head ticked and ticked like a watch.
The clock on the mantelpiece ticked irritatingly, and sounded the quarters at intervals which seemed curiously irregular.
It ticked its final second out at last, and he arose holding the bracelet in his hand.
And it ticked much louder and clearer than before through the freshly ordered room.
And the church clock ticked just like a bird pecking the naked grains in a field in autumn, that clock ticked away second after second from the little bit left of my life.
Silence fell on the room; only the clock ticked with importance.
It was the same clock that hadticked so loudly that day when Esther first came to the house.
From the corner a tall clock ticked loudly, deliberately.
She picked it up and set it on the table beside her, where it ticked busily away.
A large marble clock on the mantelpiece tickedout its sublime indifference to time and change.
He never even ticked one and retired in disgust, limping and swearing.
Deerfoot led our batting list, and after the first pitched ball, which he did not see, and the second, which ticked his shirt as it shot past, he turned to us with an expression that made us groan inwardly.
The clock ticked away in the long, silent parlor; the sunshine slept on the grass outside; the butterflies were flitting from flower to flower, and laughing voices passed in the street, but her heart was strangely still.
The old clock ticked in the stillness, and the crimson glow of the sunset was reflected on the parlor wall.
The kettle hummed and sputtered, sending forth its white cloud of steam, while the kitchen clock ticked off the pleasant moments.
The door had been rehung and the accustomed warmth and good cheer had returned to the room, where the kettle hummed and the clock ticked just as though nothing had happened.
From the mantelpiece the alarm-clock ticked with emphasis.
His bravado suddenly oozed and the clock ticked roundly into the silence between them.
An imitation-ivory clock ticked among a litter of imitation-ivory dresser fittings.
The little table-clock ticked merrily from half-past eleven to a quarter to twelve.
In Leroux's study, the table-clock ticked merrily on, seeming to hasten its ticking as the hand crept around closer and closer to midnight.
The clock ticked merrily on; its ticking a desecration, where all else was hushed in deference to the grim visitor.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday'--she tickedoff the days upon her fingers.
At his elbow the clockticked upon the mantelshelf spacing the seconds, and the fire was hot upon his limbs.
Loudly ticked the old clock in time with the doxology, the other day, when they cleared the tenants out of Gotham Court down here in Cherry Street, and shut the iron doors of Single and Double Alley against them.
He checked the electric timing device in front of him that ticked off the seconds, as a red hand crawled around to zero, and when it swept down to the thirty-second mark, Tom pulled the microphone to his lips again.
The old clock in the corner hummed and ticked through the deep silence, like the humble voice of the home she toiled to keep warm, thanking her, comforting her.
The little clock on the mantel-piece, in a terrible hurry, ticked with all its might.
The clock on the mantel-piece, a little travelling timepiece, ticked in a hurried way as if anxious to get on.
One minute--two minutes--three minutes ticked slowly by, and it was all that Dave could do to stop from screaming at the top of his voice.
It wasn’t until a few seconds had ticked by that he really got a good look at the plane’s silhouette stamped on a background cloud.
The candles in front of the mirror had burned low, and flickering they struggled for existence; and the clock on the console ticked restlessly.
All at once Caddy thought the clock ticked louder than she had ever heard a clock tick in all her life before.
The clock ticked and ticked, and 'twas so still you could hear every stroke of the pendulum.
The clock in the tower room ticked on to nine and then to ten.
There was an instrument that ticked off the seconds in this seemingly timeless void.
Once more a gloomy silence, at which the fussy little alarm clock seemed to rejoice exceedingly, for it had the stage to itself, andticked on relentlessly.
Louder ticked the clock, and it was like music to their ears.
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