He had passed through the circular room, then the room full of clicking and dancing light, until he found himself again inside that cavernous room full of shelves on which were ranged dusty glass spheres.
She was studying herself curiously, to see if she were not suffering. But no! nothing as yet. She heard the ticking of the clock, the crackling of the fire, and Charles breathing as he stood upright by her bed.
If you're traveling in a starship at close to the speed of light, you'll still experience the familiar one-second-per-second ticking of a clock — but an observer back on Earth would see your clock moving glacially slow.
We stared at each other for a very long time. It was quiet except for the whirring of the machines, the beeping, the dripping, the ticking of the big clock on the wall.
Different killer-whale ecotypes even communicate using distinct " dialects" made of clicks, whistles and calls, with " accents" that differ between pods.