nickety-knock

Updated: May 3, 2025

I never before felt the same way as I do to-night. My spirits is gived way: my heart seems to have falled flat down and died within me, and, be doing what I may, there keeps soundin' in my ears a nickety-knock like the tappin' on a coffin-lid."

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880