Meaning of ticktock | Babel Free

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“The son bent bushy eyebrows in an icy glance; Old Cornelius looked away — at the floor, into the fire, up at the clock ticktocking on the mantel, the clock which was Phebe Hand’s reserve magazine in the family’s ceaseless battle with want; most of the money stowed behind the swaying pendulum now came from Corneel.”

“As the clock ticktocks away the last few hours and minutes of the year, we look toward a new year filled with hopes of better things to come.”

“A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.”

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