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  • Encouraging kids to lie down while practicing breath awareness is quite useful but also is an activity that I use called the Pendulum Swing (or tic-toc with younger children.)

    Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: Mindfulness Meditation and Children: An Interview With Susan Kaiser Greenland 2010

  • This clock, in my head, kept going 'tic-toc, tic-toc'.

    Loaded Questions Interview: Ty Stoller and The Monkey Jungle by contributor Blake Watson 2008

  • REEKER: I would have to go back and check for you the specific tic-toc, as you guys like to call it, of letters.

    CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2001 2001

  • If I wished, dog, to disturb the silence of this room I'd be clever enough to choose a rickety chair; its feet would pound out a regular tic-toc, tic-toc, tic-toc, in time with my tongue as I washed myself.

    Barks and Purrs 1873-1954 Colette 1913

  • But I go on unconscious of any wrong-doing; tic-toc, tic-toc.

    Barks and Purrs 1873-1954 Colette 1913

  • She raised herself on one elbow; the crack of light under the door was gone; there was no sound, no movement in the house except the measured tick of the hall clock outside, tic-toc!

    Ailsa Paige 1899

  • She paused, listening; the tic-toc of the hall clock accented the silence; the door that led from Celia's chamber into the hall stood wide open, and there was nobody in sight.

    Ailsa Paige 1899

  • How it had crept into her consciousness she could not understand; she lay still, listening, but the tic-toc seemed to fit the syllables of his name; and when, annoyed, she made a half disdainful mental attempt to substitute other syllables, it proved too much of an effort, and back into its sober, swinging rhythm slipped the old clock's tic-toe, in wearisome, meaningless repetition:

    Ailsa Paige 1899

  • Giuliana Rancic's red-carpet routine Here's a tic-toc of what it takes for her to get ready, and what really goes through her mind once the cameras start rolling.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Simms introduces new star cleat studs for safer wading girl, I couldn't wait to grow up and wear grown-up 'tic-toc' shoes.

    WN.com - Articles related to Shoes for yoga: Vibram Five Fingers 2009

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