The clock on the mantel piece was scandalized and ticked so loudly that he glanced at it over his shoulder and then quickly left the room.

Victory over Barrow in front of a crowd of 8, 720 at Blackpool's Bloomfield Road meant that Widnes had now " ticked the box " and were now eligible to submit an application for a three-year Super League licence in 2011.

As the final seconds of the game ticked away Harry Carson, continuing the recent trend started by the Giants, gave head coach Bill Parcells a Gatorade shower, going as far as to take off his jersey and pads and sneak behind Parcells with a Rose Bowl security team shirt on.

The Abyssinian has agouti ( ticked tabby ) fur, giving the appearance of even color with color-banded hairs.

In the mid-1970s, surveys were used to examine the effects of vasectomy in relation to post-operative sexual behaviour, satisfaction and happiness, with generally positive answers in their " ticked boxes ".

His effects include a telephone book with the names of many pubs ticked off.

Most breed standards use the terms " ticked " and " roan " interchangeably, with the former referring to clearly defined flecks on a white background and the latter to flecks so closely spaced that the mixture appears even.

The colour of the fur varies with subspecies, yellowish-grey to reddish-brown or tawny-grey, and is ticked with black.

At the end of Graham's third season ( 1988 – 89 ), the club won their first League title since 1971 ( when Graham had been an Arsenal player ), in highly dramatic fashion, in the final game of the season against Liverpool at Anfield ; Arsenal needed to win by two goals to take the title ; Alan Smith scored for Arsenal early in the second half to make it 1 – 0, but as time ticked by Arsenal struggled to get a second, and with 90 minutes gone on the clock, Arsenal still needed another goal.

Enright personally selected his wardrobe: an oversized, baggy double-breasted suit that had belonged to Stempel's late father-in-law, a blue shirt with a frayed collar, " terrible looking " tie and an old " Timex watch that ticked like an alarm clock ", the sound of which would be picked up by the studio microphone and thus help build suspense.

Commonly the head is a solid or nearly solid color and the body is speckled or " ticked " with liver and white, sometimes with large patches of solid color called " saddles ".

Roan is similar to merle, but consists of solid patches and white patches speckled or " ticked " with the same colour as the solid patches.

The colours themselves in the breed consist of black, liver with brown pigmentation, red with black or brown pigmentation, golden with black or brown pigmentation, sable, silver, ash, black and tan, liver and tan, blue roan, liver roan, orange roan with black or brown pigmentation, lemon roan with black or brown pigmentation, black and white ticked, liver and white ticked, orange and white ticked with black or brown pigmentation, lemon and white ticked with black or brown pigmentation, black and white, liver and white with brown pigmentation, orange and white with black or brown pigmentation, lemon and white with black or brown pigmentation.

The fact that Satie had abandoned the Nouveaux jeunes less than a year after starting the group, was the " gift from heaven " that made it all come true for Cocteau: his 1918 publication Le coq et l ' Arlequin is said to have ticked it off.

Burke, whose shows were tours de force of riveting soul and unashamed hokum ", " ticked every box from low comedy through country pleading to the kind of magisterial rock ' n ' roll that brought the house down ", and he " became known as much for his showmanship as he did his voice.

In the 1960 NFL Championship Game, Bednarik, the last Eagle between Green Bay's Jim Taylor and the end zone, tackled Taylor on the final play of the game at the Eagles ' eight yard line, and remained atop Taylor as the final seconds ticked off the clock, ensuring the Packers could not run another play and preserving a 17-13 Eagles victory.

* Secondary tabby pattern genes such as T < sup > a </ sup > / t < sup > a </ sup >, at which locus a dominant mutation produces an Abyssinian ticked or non-patterned agouti tabby, having virtually no stripes or bars.

While brown cats with ticked coats can occasionally be seen, few if any resembles the Singapura, with the majority of cats being bobtailed tabbies, tortoiseshells or bicolor, and the move by the STPB is seen by locals to be an advertising move based on the popularity of the breed among tourists at that time.

As the clock ticked down the final moments of the millennium, the Bellevue family worshipped at the foot of the cross.

In contrast, a sable ( dogs ), ticked ( dogs or cats ) or agouti ( cats or rodents ) coat has two or more different colours along the shaft of the hair, with one colour at the base and usually a darker colour, such as black, at the tip.

And when you get back, not one minute will have ticked by.

The Singapura is one of the smallest breeds of cats, noted for its large eyes and ears, brown ticked coat and blunt tail.

The medium bright and evenly ticked shade is the one to aim for and the extreme tips of the fur will be tipped with steel blue or grey.

Cornish Rex cats come in a wide variety of coat colours and patterns, outlined in the breed standard: solids, including white, black, chocolate, orange and the dilutes blue, lilac and cream ; all forms of tabby including classic, mackerel and ticked tabbies, bicolor " tuxedo " coat in many colours, tortoiseshell, " smoke " colours and the colour-point pattern standard in the Siamese breed.

Charlemagne and his retinue deemed the clock to be a conjuration for the sounds it emanated and the tricks it displayed every time an hour ticked.

The term twitcher, sometimes misapplied as a synonym for birder, is reserved for those who travel long distances to see a rare bird that would then be ticked, or checked off, on a list.

There remains a great deal of ambiguity in terminology regarding mottled dogs, which are called roan, ticked, mottled and belton depending on the context.

The roan or ticked color is described in many breeds of gundogs such as English Cocker Spaniels, American Cocker Spaniels, English Springer Spaniels, Field Spaniels and Brittanys, German Shorthaired Pointers, Spinoni Italiani, Lagotto Romagnolos and English Setters, as well as Border Collies and many other breeds.

The Colors are: Solid liver, black and white ticked, liver and white ticked, solid black and tri-colour.

" As the final seconds of the game ticked away, and as the crowd broke out in perfect unison singing O Canada, Cole said, " Now after 50 years, it's time for Canada to stand up and cheer.

) The dominant ticked tabby allele masks all other tabby patterns.

( Torso banding disappears in the ticked tabby.

* There is an interesting gene, not yet identified but believed to be related to the agouti gene, in the Chausie breed, that produces silver-tipped black fur similar to Abyssinian ticked fur.

As the wing moves forward through the air, the boundary layer at first flows smoothly over the streamlined shape of the airfoil.

On the other hand, Carroll suggested a totally different approach, he looks at the fine-structure constant as a scalar field and claims that if the telescopes are correct and the fine-structure constant varies smoothly over the universe, then the scalar field must have a very small mass.

After that, the convention went smoothly for Johnson without a searing battle over civil rights.

Because air no longer flows smoothly over the wings during a stall, aileron control of roll becomes less effective, whilst simultaneously the tendency for the ailerons to generate adverse yaw increases.

But to the relief of Vajpayee, this crisis tided over rather smoothly.

If such a collection of inner products on the tangent bundle of a manifold varies smoothly as one traverses the manifold, then concepts that were defined only pointwise at each tangent space can be extended to yield analogous notions over finite regions of the manifold.

Sledges were useful not only in winter but can be drawn over wet fields, muddy roads, and even hard ground, if one helps them along by greasing the blades with oil or alternatively wetting them with water ; in cold weather the water will freeze to ice and they glide along more smoothly with less effort to pull them.

For bow collectors and pantographs, this is done by having two contact wires run side by side over a length about four wire supports: a new one dropping down and the old one rising up, allowing the pantograph to smoothly transfer from one to the other.

During the period in which the British withdrawal was completed, Britain refused to share the administration of Palestine with a proposed UN transition regime, to allow the UN Palestine Commission to establish a presence in Palestine earlier than a fortnight before the end of the Mandate, to allow the creation of official Jewish and Arab militias or to assist in smoothly handing over territory or authority to any successor.

Additionally, the large wheel rode over bumps in the road more smoothly than smaller-wheeled vehicles.

At the same time, below the critical angle of attack, as angle of attack increases, the air begins to flow less smoothly over the upper surface of the airfoil and begins to separate from the upper surface.

This chip tuning often works because modern engines are designed to produce more power than required, which is then reduced by the EMS to make the engine operate smoothly over a wider RPM range, with low emissions.

The finest-quality greens are well-kept so that a ball will roll smoothly over the closely mowed grass.

It is played by breathing smoothly through a circular aperture at the end and by moving the fingers over the holes down the front of the tube in order to create the different notes.

The weight of the Dobsonian is distributed over large simple bearing surfaces so the telescope can move smoothly under finger pressure with minimal backlash.

It resists splintering and wears smoothly over time.

A fascia is a structure of connective tissue that surrounds muscles, groups of muscles, blood vessels, and nerves, binding some structures together, while permitting others to slide smoothly over each other.

But by 1994 the XM was a car “ that floats the car over foundation bumps, though it deals less smoothly with surface abrasions ”.

The slat re-directs the airflow at the front of the wing, allowing it to flow more smoothly over the upper surface while at a high angle of attack.

The transition to the new currency went smoothly and the controversy quickly blew over.

Silicone-based caulk on this upturned bathroom sink will spread smoothly, sealing the gap, when the sink is turned over and installed.

Eastwood was intent, like with many of his films on shooting it as smoothly as possible, often refusing to do retakes over certain scenes insisted on by Post who later remarked, " A lot of the things he said were based on pure, selfish ignorance, and showed that he was the man who controlled the power.

Click the image above to view an animation of a square wheel rolling smoothly over inverted catenary | catenaries.

In the event, despite some predictions of disaster, D day went off smoothly, with the main concerns being over retailers using the opportunity to round prices up and thereby boost inflation.