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TICK, contracts. Credit; as, if a servant usually buy for the master upon tick, and the servant buy something without the master's order, yet, if the master were trusted by the trader, he is liable. 1 Show. 95; 3 Keb. 625; 10 Mod. 111; 3 Esp. R. 214; 4 Esp. R. 174.



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Byline: by Jane Simon AS the clock ticks away during tonight's final episode, you'll probably start to fret that soul-mates Gil and Alice (Tamsin Greig and Michael Landes) are cutting it a bit fine if they're ever going to meet each other.
Everyone is at risk with a sniper on the loose and the action reaching a climax as the clock steadily ticks away in the final minutes.
It ticks away in the bell tower of Coleshill Parish Church, so winding it and checking the time has always been the responsibility of one of the bellringers.
 
 
 
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