Ticks
[tɪk]
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To dream you see ticks crawling on your flesh, is a sign of impoverished circumstances and ill health. Hasty journeys to sick beds may be made. To mash a tick on you, denotes that you will be annoyed by treacherous enemies. To see in your dreams large ticks on stock, enemies are endeavoring to get possession of your property by foul means.
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Examples
- With its sharp clear bell it strikes three quarters after seven and ticks on again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The clock ticks over the fireplace, the weather-glass hangs in the hall. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Ticks of a Watch and the Tread of a Fly Recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When I had no more ticks to make, I folded all my bills up uniformly, docketed each on the back, and tied the whole into a symmetrical bundle. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You may have observed that some of them were marked with ticks, and the others--the great majority--were not. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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