All night tinily you can hear Tick-tock tinkling down the sheer Steep falls of space.
Remote in voids star-purged of sense, Tick-tock in stark indifference!
He had been tuned in on Telzey's newscast interview on the liner the night before, and wondered whether Telzey would care to discuss Tick-Tock with him.
Then Tick-Tock had tricked her into letting her mind be invaded by these beings.
Talented as Tick-Tock was at blotting herself out, it usually was possible to spot her if one directed one's attention to shadow patterns.
He studied Tick-Tock with more than casual interest while Telzey was settling herself into a chair, added, "And what may I and my office do for you?
They'd contacted Tick-Tock first, during the night.
In the darkness there appeared then an image of Tick-Tock sitting a little way off beside an open door in an old stone wall, green eyes fixed on Telzey.
An impression as if, behind her, Tick-Tock had thought, "Now I can help again!
The scene with Tick-Tock and the door vanished; and Telzey felt she was standing in a pitch-black room, knowing that if she moved even one step forwards, something that was waiting there silently would reach out and grab her.
Telzey switched off the instrument, noticed that Tick-Tock had chosen to disappear meanwhile.
Tick-Tock seemed to be somewhere nearby, looking on.
And why, Telzey thought, should the old question of what Tick-Tock really was pass through her mind just now?
Her mind returned to the results of the half-serious attempt she'd made to find out whether there was something Tick-Tock "wanted her to do.
A half minute followed without a sound save the tick-tock of the tall old clock and the drone overhead.
Thus the city sits, baffled by itself, looking out upon a tick-tock of windows and reading with a wonder in its thought, "Who are these people?
Thus the tick-tock of the great city grown stern and audible, grown verbose and insistent, speaks aloud in the courts.
The great multiple tick-tock of the city waits another hour to pass.
Against that which did not conform, against all that squirmed for some expression beyond the tick-tock of life, he was a force--an apostle with a sword.
Alley box and manor, the tick-tock of the city has them all.
Doors open and shut, lights go on and off, day and night drop a tick-tock across miles of roofs.
Life sinks slowly away with a tick-tock on its lips.
All familiar, all a part of the great tick-tock of the city.
The tick-tock was a perfection whose basic principle was a respect for others.
In the tick-tock of life Hazlitt saw a perfection--an evolution out of centuries of mania and disorder.
Only the ceaseless rush of waters on the shore, and the friendly tick-tock of the clock disturbed the stillness of the night.
Illustration] It sounded like some one who was amusing himself by rapping with his knuckles on a wooden box--tick-tock .
If he hadn't told me time and time again that I am only a little puppet without a heart I should almost believe that I had one down inside me, and that this tick-tock were indeed .
All the midshipmen were out of the building, and absolute stillness, save for the mournful tick-tock of the clock, reigned in Bancroft Hall.
She heard only the tick-tock of a small clock and now and then a low sound in the stove, from which she inferred that a few new sticks of wood were being shoved in from the hall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
