When the clock sounded, I wasn't sure what the Lawgivers would do.

From across the common a clock sounded the half-hour.

The clock sounded the first full hour of the night, and after no more than a week, four chimes for the second.

White plastic still clung to the mechanism, and in the stillness of the Cathedral the ticking clock sounded very loud.

He continued to stare, unaware of time passing until the clock in his computer sounded its gentle alarm.

The great clock of the Piazza had sounded the fifth hour of the Italian evening.

"That clock has sounded the hour of a rendezvous."

The clock in Modesty's head sounded a warning.

Inside, at the end of the north transept, the oldest chiming clock in the world (1303) sounds out the hour.

In the silence that followed, the clock sounded nearly as loud as-a hammer nailing down a coffin lid.