It was with a feeling of envy he heard the busyticking of the instruments there when those of his Company were dead as a door nail.
The pulsation of the blood in the arteries is a sort of clock, the ticking of which can be heard only at night.
Do you hear the tickingof the clock of time with each pulsation of your heart?
There was a long pause, during which there was no sound in the room except the ticking of the clock and the munching of shrimps by the ex-champion.
There was no sound in the Warren Lodge except the scratching of Lydia's pen, the ticking of her favorite skeleton clock, an occasional clatter of crockery from the kitchen, and the voices of the birds and maids without.
She listened to the ticking of a clock in the ticket office, but could not see its face; wondered how late it was, and how long she had been absent.
It was ticking faster now, as it seemed, and steadily, the hour hand well towards midnight.
Even the old Dutch clock, whose ticking was one of her earliest memories, seemed to beat with a new, discordant note of mockery, as if it too were uttering its ironical comment on the wisdom of a man's faith.
Some excelsior lay upon the shelf, which had evidently been stuffed between the ticking object and the back row of cans.
He took out his watch and held it to his ear, and was surprised to find that its sound was quite distinct from another and slower ticking somewhere near by.
But it was not dangling this time, and Tom paused in surprise, for the ticking continued quite audibly and apparently very close to him.
As he did so he heard the usual, unmuffled ticking which was pretty sure to accompany the stooping posture with Tom and which always notified him that his big trusty nickel watch was dangling on its nickel chain.
The strokes fell with the regularity of the ticking of a clock.
Their very monotony helped them to pass as unnoticed as the ticking of a clock.
Every now and then, she would awaken with a start, when, for some minutes, she would listen to the ticking of the American clock on the mantelpiece.
Often, she would wake in the night to listen with glad ears to the incessant ticking of the American clock on the mantelpiece.
It was told of him that he considered but one symptom, and this he discovered with his hand on the patient's pulse and his eyes on a big loud-ticking watch in a hunting case.
Then I heard a carriage roll by in the street, and the faint regular ticking of the small clock on the mantel.
So Alexia propped herself up against the wall, and began, and presently it was so still that all any one could hear was the turning of the leaves and the ticking of the little French clock on the mantel.
And presently the only sound to be heard was the ticking of the little clock, varied by the turning of his pages, or the rattling of the paper on which he was working out the problems for to-morrow.
But I hear only the ticking of my watch in the pen-place of my writing-desk and the far lower note of the noise of the fire, perpetual, yet seeming uncertain.
I have the feeling that even while the clock is ticking we are moving on to terrible things.
The time arrives when I weary, weary, of the brazen ticking of the clock of fate.
There was no sound to be heard, either in the room or outside, save the ticking of the clock on the wall.
A few minutes passed, registered by the ticking of a little clock of exquisite bronze work on the mantelpiece.
Not even a clock was tickingon the mantelpiece above the fire, in which ship logs were burning.
Time passed noiselessly, undisturbed even by the ticking of a clock.
It still goes," said he, looking up at the Black Forest clock that was ticking on the wall.
For a long while, not a sound was heard but the rapid ticking of the clock that stood on the writing-table.
Study the following paragraph, decide which ideas are important, and strike out the details that merely clog the thought: As I stepped into the room, I heard the clock ticking and that caused me to look at it.
When the papers slip out or we move the clock a little as we're dusting, the ticking stops right away.
Above them sat the mayor, before them reporters, ticking in shorthand every phrase and word.
The ticking of a good many clocks came to him from different parts of the house; they seemed to focus their monotonous activity especially on his hearing.
The beating of his heart was like the regular sound of a ticking clock.
The ticking of the watch in my vest pocket came to my ears, shucking off the leisurely seconds, while McCord's fingernails gnawed at the palms of his hands.
The city slept; the last boarder was abed; the turpentine had become a peace out of pain; only the ticking of the clock filtered into the perfect calm of the dining-room.
Stealthily his hand moved to his ticking shirt and removed the campaign button.
Scoutmaster Ned went by the signs, which scouts do, and the signs were a funny ticking shirt and a pair of pantaloons like stove pipes.
The ticking was now low; but as I listened intently, it gradually grew louder and louder, until, to my horror, the colossal frame swayed violently backwards and forwards.
For the first two or three nights of my visit the clock was as usual, but, the night before my friend was taken ill, its ticking became strangely irregular.
It is an error to suppose it only ticks in the spring, for I know those who have heard its ticking at other, and indeed, at all times in the year.
Then there came a morning, when, between two and three o'clock, unable to lie in bed and listen to the ticking any longer, I got up.
In one corner of it stood a very old grandfather's clock, the ticking of which I could distinctly hear when the house was quiet.
A deathlike stillness reigned through the house, the silence alone broken by the ticking of the great dial at the head of the staircase.
There is something inexpressibly awful in the ticking of a clock, when heard at midnight by the lonely and anxious watcher beside the bed of death.
The chief, all this while, recurred with undiminished pleasure to the tickingof his new toy.
There was no resisting his will, and I armed myself accordingly with the "ticking machine," and followed my master on my first professional visit.
It was so still in the room that through the quiet I could hear the tall eight-day clock ticking half-way up the stairs.
He sat awhile by Janet's side, and it was very quiet, save for the clock ticking out the moments of a woman's life.
