Then I crawled back into bed, pulled the blankets up, and lay there shivering, listening to the steady tick of sleet on the windows.

It roared and came up to full revolutions, before being throttled back to a steady tick.

Just the steady tick of the long-case clock in the hall.

He could not see it in the darkness, but here, he could hear the steady tick.

She held her breath, but it found its rhythm and settled down to a steady tick, tock, like a clock wound just in time.

He listened for the steady tick of the mechanism; it was there.

They could hear the steady tick of the radiators cooling all along the carriage.

From the living room came the steady tick of the seven-day clock.

From the intercom's speaker he now heard the steady tick of metal as the engine cooled.

The only sounds were the hissing of steam and the steady tick.