half-clicking

Updated: May 15, 2025

"I don't need the room yet. I won't run over you, anyway. Stand out of the brush, I tell you." Tom good-humoredly obeyed, Harry moving, too, though starting an instant later. Prompt as he was, however, Tom Reade was a fraction of a second too late. Behind them there was a half-whirring, half-clicking sound. Then Reade felt a stinging sensation in his left leg three or four inches from the heel.

H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock - The Young Engineers in Colorado : Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest