The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies. From LearnThat.org. [Georges Jacques Danton (1759-1794)]
That night the sound of the tocsin was again heard, mingling with the booming of cannon. From Wordnik.com. [Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney] Reference
The tocsin is the signal for our people in the salient. ". From Wordnik.com. [Barbarians] Reference
Spring beats her tocsin call to those who love her. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Halloween, Happy Birthday, John Keats : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Since the tocsin sounded we have gone from bad to worse. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
This was a tocsin: the partition of the state had begun. From Wordnik.com. [The Dual Dictatorship] Reference
We can't sound the loud tocsin on a lot of our own paras. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
Fauxbourgs in their name, and caused the tocsin to be rung. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The tocsin bell hanging from its collar was fulfilling its mission. From Wordnik.com. [Knell Quarternion] Reference
With a tocsin-pie and baklava for new year with a carp as well for Nikulden. From Wordnik.com. [The old ladies socialize with their grandsons anymore always] Reference
He was sounding the tocsin, and he felt the importance of what he was doing. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
It became necessary to sound the financial tocsin in the ears of all the Union. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
He was ringing the tocsin, which was to call together the people of the village. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
"That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul--the dinner bell.". From Wordnik.com. [The Oxford Phlegm to Prayer?] Reference
The knell of retreat no longer sounds in our hearts; the tocsin rings there instead. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
But this is the tocsin of independence for those long held in thrall to her imperium. From Wordnik.com. [It is a real question as to who's under greater threat from Washington...] Reference
The hour of his closing hies to hand; the tocsin that shall claxonise his ware-abouts. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
The rest of us would be wise to hear this as the very loud tocsin of human rights that it is. From Wordnik.com. [Will, You, Marri [and] Me] Reference
They now rang the tocsin, but no one came to their rescue, and the stronghold was speedily taken. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Now the Gatesgate sounds the tocsin of change to boundaries of police power, thanks to our dear POTUS!. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Bruno Sanz: The Gates Affair: Why We Care] Reference
And his case is even more of a tocsin because it doesn't seem that he suffered any serious concussions. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Easier For Some Athletes To Suffer Brain Damage?] Reference
I could soon see the effect of the tocsin in the new crowds which recruited our assailants from all sides. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
The tocsin had been rung in the three neighbouring parishes, and about seven hundred men had been collected. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
The tocsin rang great part of the day, and the principal street of the town was in danger of being destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
Gruyère, the Fribourgeois summoned the people to be ready at the sound of the tocsin to take arms to repel them. From Wordnik.com. [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference
I dream that I hear the ringing of bells; this soon becomes a tocsin, and I imagine myself in the days of June, 1848. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. From Wordnik.com. [Thayer Award Address ("Duty, Honor, Country")] Reference
There we found every one in arms, the tocsin sounding on every side, for a good five or six leagues round the harbours. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
From your ranks come the great captains who will hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. From Wordnik.com. [Duty, Honor, Country] Reference
At five o'clock in the morning the tocsin sounded and all the village gathered at the Town Hall to read the notice of mobilization. From Wordnik.com. ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference
The bells that had sounded out the tocsin, at the outbreak of the insurrection, were for the most part broken in pieces and melted. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
On the preceding day the popular excitement was extreme, and at midnight the tocsin for a scene of wild fury was sounded throughout. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
The disobedient were to be hung without process of law, and the tocsin might be rung to gather a force for the purpose of capturing them. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
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