| 单词 | tocsin |
| 例句 | It blazed deep red for a moment and then dwindled into a patch of gray smoke, but it was a signal as clear as a tocsin in the night. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z These statistics should prompt all rationalists to sound the proverbial tocsin with unrelenting fury. They really want a theocracy: The GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their lord 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Still, few poems are more famous than “The Raven” with its dolorous tocsin, “Nevermore.” Review | Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z All over Europe and the United States, political scientists were sounding the tocsin for any balanced, values-based politics. Goodbye, right-wing populism 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z We have grabbed onto that great tocsin of American freedom and will not surrender it -- even if too many millions of white Americans have discarded it for cheaply made "MAGA" hats. Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump: Faint hope endures this Fourth of July 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, the public health and scientific communities sounded their tocsins against a background of regulatory and political crickets. Big Ag’s big lie: Factory farms, your health and the new politics of antibiotics 2014-01-12T12:00:00Z These words sound down through the years, a tocsin awakening us to that most grievous of failures - the loss of nerve. Behind the hijab 2013-11-15T17:02:14Z When Franz Liszt nearly three quarters of a century ago made some suggestions to the Erard piano manufacturers on the score of increased sonority in their instruments, he sounded the tocsin of realism. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Taking advantage of the assembling of the faithful in the churches on a feast-day, the podestà sounded the tocsin, and many unarmed Catholics are said to have been slaughtered before the altars. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z But the tocsin failed to reach the one ear for which it was intended. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z “Yes,” the seminarist chimed in, “and when they hear the tocsin of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity—” “Liberty, Equality and Fiddlesticks!” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z The country's heart yet pants with civil war; The tocsin of past years re-echoes yet, Be saving of the executioner's arm! The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z But have no fear, the tocsin will sound. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z She knew the truth then, and the thing which she had feared through those days rang in her head like a sullen tocsin. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z The surprise was so complete, that when the tocsin rang at daybreak, the watchmen being alarmed at some musket shots they heard, they found the town already bound hand and foot. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z A great event was about to occur, and when the tocsin of the Cordeliers sounded the first stroke, he was off like a rocket to the Rue Cléry. When a Cobbler Ruled a King 2012-01-15T03:00:13.430Z Then I looked back along his path, And heard the clash of steel on steel, Where man faced man, in deadly wrath, While clanged the tocsin's hurrying peal. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Let Freedom's tocsin sound amain, Until the islands of the seas Re-echo with the glad refrain! The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z The thunder was the tocsin of the storm, but those who came to rob and kill moved unheralded in swift silence. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z On Wednesday, there was a new city government in the H�tel de Ville; everywhere hung the tri-coloured banner of Napoleon and the Republic; and the tocsin called out a hundred thousand rebels in arms. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z It was the great tocsin of the Cordeliers Club, striking the general alarm. When a Cobbler Ruled a King 2012-01-15T03:00:13.430Z Its tocsin was immediate emancipation, as opposed to emancipation conditioned upon deportation. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z I seized the chain and rang the tocsin. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z They sounded the tocsin, mustered their partisans, and released the prisoners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z The knell of a pope's death became the tocsin of war, and the election of his successor a bloody struggle for political interest. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z The insurrection in Peru was but the tocsin sounding the alarm. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z The Admiral, swaying aloft in the gibbet-tree, sounded his tocsin, and Bob barked furiously. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z We must have lingered by the tocsin a quarter of an hour, enjoying ourselves, before returning to the back door. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Hark! the tocsin is sounding, my comrades; Bind your knapsacks—away let us go, Where the flag of the freeman is waving— March to vanquish the ruffian foe! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z The elevation of this Pope was the tocsin of a war which, during his administration, kept Rome and Italy in a state of violent convulsion. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z At length, however, he is entrapped in Paris, with other prominent Huguenots, on that terrible St. Bartholomew's Eve, when the tocsin gave the signal at midnight for the massacre to begin. Blackie & Sons Catalogue - 1891 Books for Young People 2011-09-19T02:00:13.163Z Pain is the importunate tocsin which rouses to dangerous realities and spurs to the seeking of a cure. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Long before we came in sight of Johnstown I could hear the distant quaver of the tocsin, where, on the fort, the iron bell rang ceaselessly its melancholy warning. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z We rallied around the same star-spangled standard, When called to the field by the tocsin of war, But they from our side have unfeelingly wandered, And we strip from our flag every recusant star. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z His demand for immediate emancipation fell like a tocsin upon the ears of slaveholders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Then, and not till then, did Beauregard’s cannon thunder forth the protest for the rights of States, and the tocsin rang out from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z All the bells of the place by this time had joined with the tocsin, filling the air with dismal, deafening sound. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z The tocsin had been tolled in every village, forty hours' prayers offered, indulgences promised, and even miracles employed to inspire the populace with delirious energy. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Yet, so curiously constituted is the native mind, the blowing-up of the magazine was the final tocsin of revolt. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Marat himself sounded the tocsin, and Hanriot, at the head of the Parisian army, surrounded the Convention. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The general staff would not allow the tocsin to be sounded, on the pretext that the population must not be alarmed. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z But he had scarcely done speaking, when the tocsin broke upon the night with its own lugubrious notes of warning. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z The chill night air crept in at the unglazed window, and the dismal tocsin proclaimed that Paris was still the scene of tumult and of violence. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z Such was the social and political condition of the people in the spring of 1842, when the tocsin of war again sounded. The Last Laird of MacNab An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada 2011-04-14T02:00:54.620Z At the close of this troubled century peace descends upon exhausted passions; and amidst the choir of young and ardent voices celebrating the national reconciliation, the tocsin no longer sounds its sinister and persistent bass. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z In the evening, the rappel, the tocsin, the trumpets had thrown thousands of armed men into the streets, who came to mass themselves at the Bastille, the Château d'Eau, and the Rue de Rivoli. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z He said nothing could traverse the prairies without being challenged by their tocsin shout of Kewrrook! All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z The tocsin sounded, the drums of the National Guard rang out the "assembly." The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z The appearance of a stranger was the signal for the ox-horned tocsin of alarm. The Last Laird of MacNab An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada 2011-04-14T02:00:54.620Z But from that field of Alamance, the defeated people carried to their homes the same persistent, haunting dream of liberty which was to rise incarnate when the tocsin of the Revolution blew through the land. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z Of old—it was a foaming, livid life, Living and dead, with tocsin bells and crime, Edicts and massacres reddening the time, With mad and splendid death above the strife. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z We’ve been sounding the tocsin, warning that Sudan’s contested region of Abyei is highly combustible, due to unresolved issues, such as cattle grazing rights and oil revenue sharing. Dot Earth: Orbiting Eyes Capture Sudan Village Destruction 2011-03-07T16:40:52Z The alarm gun shall be fired, the tocsin shall ring, night and day. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Suddenly a shrill cry arose in the distance, the well-known tocsin for the assembly of the men-at-arms. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z That tocsin waked many an echo among the hills that surrounded the town upon the Eno. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z When the tocsin of Freedom was sounded at Lexington and Concord, his impetuous spirit was aroused, and his feelings assumed the character of the most zealous patriotism. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Oh, everywhere let the tocsin clang, a full peal, ringing from end to end of the earth; let the supreme alarm ring out, and let the drums of all the armies roll the charge! War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Awakened by the tocsin and the drum, they were repairing to their meeting place, laboring under the presentiment of some untoward event. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z From this church—founded by Childebert in 606—rang out the tocsin which was the signal for that infamous massacre of the Protestants in the time of Charles IX. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z The tocsin is to sound with the rising of the moon. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z The insurrection-gun was fired, the tocsin tolled, and the gloomy, threatening masses, marshaled under able leaders, swarmed through the streets. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z I had barely time to appoint the necessary clerks, and open a set of books, before Fort Sumter was fired upon, and the tocsin of war was sounded. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z September 2, about eleven in the morning, I heard the sound of a signal gun, to which were quickly added the rapid clanging of the tocsin and the roll of drums. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z It so happened, in one of his expeditions, that he fell in with some fine horses near Debrezin; but his attempt to carry them off was discovered, the tocsin was sounded, and the chase commenced. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z Hardly had the silvery crescent lifted itself above the horizon when the parish bells, spread over an area of about ten square leagues round about the burg of Plouernel sounded the tocsin at their loudest. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z From sunset to night's noon She had lean'd upon his arm, Nor heard the far-off thunder toll The tocsin of alarm. Fanny With Other Poems 2011-01-01T03:00:27.707Z There’s a splashing in the shallows, a dog raising its voice in ecstasy, the sharp tocsin of the lifeguard’s whistle. 2010-01-11T05:00:00Z The tocsin, accompanied by the distant din of the drums beating the assembly or the forward march, was still to be heard. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z The tocsin sounded, and the peasants hastened in the direction of the fire. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z But suddenly breaking off and listening to windward, he turned to the Abbot and asked: "Is not that the ringing of the tocsin that I hear from afar?" The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z When the tocsin of war was sounded from the heights of Lexington he promptly tendered his services—was appointed a lieutenant-colonel in the Connecticut line and repaired to the post of honor and danger. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Of old—life, livid, foaming, came and went 'Mid strokes of tocsin and assassin's knife; Proscribers, murderers, each with each at strife, While, mad and splendid. Poems of Emile Verhaeren "It is more than an hour since the tocsin ceased clanging." The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z The tocsin was again sounded, and the approach of lights and steps showed him that his pursuers were aware of his hiding-place, and that they came to take him. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z What was Dante but a wail of the middle ages?—and what was Luther but a tocsin? The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 What the devil does he mean and why should the tocsin be rung? Marguerite de Valois A church-bell filled the air with the doleful sound of the tocsin, while the clocks were striking the twelve hours of midnight. The Tremendous Event If the tocsin has ceased, the Commune is worsted. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z As the messengers rode away the tocsin was heard, warning the villagers, women and children, who were gathered outside with market produce, to depart. The Unveiling of Lhasa Cutts, drunk as he was, observed the circumstance; and no sooner were steps heard upon the stairs, in obedience to the tocsin, than he took his departure with the candle. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 Its bell was the tocsin of alarm; from its pulpit he had many a time stirred up the patriotism of his countrymen by his ardent, eloquent, and pathetic appeals. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools On the 27th of June, the bell of the great cathedral sounded the tocsin: the Burgundian army was in sight. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Six months ago the curates should have stirred themselves, roused their parishes to the sound of the tocsin, and put arms into their hands. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z The tocsin rang forth a full peal; the gates of Paris were closed. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 At Paris the accents of that terrible melody sounded like strokes of the tocsin. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty This could not be atoned for without war, and within twenty-four hours the tocsin of war was beating in every Gur village all over the hills. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches The discovery of coal oil at this period at once attracted his attention, and he had embarked in its manufacture when the tocsin of war called him into the field. Army of the Cumberland and the Battle of Stone's River Under the influence of the disturbing sounds of the tocsin, the high linden-trees "suddenly begin to talk, only to become quiet again immediately and lapse into a sullen silence." Contemporary Russian Novelists In the mean time the populace had assembled at the Hôtel de Ville, and loudly demanded the sounding of the tocsin and the arming of the citizens. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 The tocsin was sounding all over the city. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty When the tocsin sounded "to arms, to arms, ye who would be free," the negro responded to the call, and side by side with the white patriots of the colonial militia, bled and died. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War Why is the tocsin now sounded by the very authors and friends of the measures? A Letter to the Hon. Samuel Eliot, Representative in Congress From the City of Boston, In Reply to His Apology For Voting For the Fugitive Slave Bill. But if they tear the Charter, Jet the tocsin speak for me! Poems The tocsin is sounding, for the militia, I suppose, all others being in the field. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Should some friend of peace enable the fifty to repose on one sense, that innocent word, no longer ringing the tocsin of a party, would lie in forgetfulness in the Dictionary. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 What then was the chill that gripped them by the heart when above the howling of the blast the old warning tocsin broke out! The Wilderness Trail “If he but saw this, he would sound the tocsin—we should all be butchered.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) And now the great bell of the "Palais de Justice" pealed forth the tocsin. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 The tocsin was ringing in my ears when I awoke this morning. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Without, church bells; not a chime, but a slow, broken tocsin. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV But the cure was effected, and the country was on its road to a fair amount of prosperity, when the tocsin was sounded in America, and Home Rule became the cry. The Landleaguers The virtue in the poem sounds a spiritual tocsin. Ioläus The man that was a ghost The tocsin was rung, and the inhabitants assembled in arms. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 The tocsin was sounded in the afternoon, and the militia called out; every available man being summoned to the field for the defense of the city. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Towards evening the excitement increased, and the fire-bells jangled a tocsin to call the people into the streets. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 On one hand, although at a considerable distance, the clang of a cavalry trumpet was audible; on the other, church and convent bells rang out a tocsin of alarm. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 On the night of the 9th of August the dread tocsin sounded the note of doom to the Royal cause—herald to the bloodshed of the 10th of August. Vigée Le Brun The tocsin was rung, and his enemies, originally a band of three hundred men, being swollen by constant accessions to four times that number, the house in which Cipierre had taken refuge was assailed. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 The tocsin has been sounding all day, for the militia, which come slowly, after being summoned and dismissed so often. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital He was soon out with empty pockets, and he then proceeded to sound his little tocsin of distrust or alarm so that all the sylvan folk might hear. Under the Maples For a quarter of a century she was the lone watcher on the heights to sound the tocsin of freedom. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV You cannot now prevent it; its first tocsin of liberty pealed with the first gun fired at Fort Sumter. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Scarce, however, had the last detachment left the walls, when the tocsin was sounded, and their enemies, respecting none of their promises, involved them in a horrible carnage. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 The offices and government shops were closed, and the tocsin sounded for hours, by order of the Governor, frightening some of the women. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital He had ordered that the tocsin, the signal for the massacre, should be tolled at two o'clock in the morning. Henry IV, Makers of History Her motto, "Truth for authority and not authority for truth," is still the tocsin of reform. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The chimes shall be a tocsin, and the red Glow of the Yule-wood embers shall recall A myriad smouldering pyres of murdered dead. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 18, 1914 It is a frightful tocsin, which violently struggles against the fury of the orchestra. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories The tocsin was sounded in the public square, and thousands have been running hither and thither to know its meaning. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Had not the famous Declaration of Independence been born here and the State House bell pealed out the first tocsin of freedom? A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Granger's work seems to have sounded the tocsin for a general rummage after, and plunder of, old prints. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance All the others, harsher, seemed tocsins of terror. Heart of the Blue Ridge Though thousands in France were horror-stricken at these outrages, the mob, who now ruled Paris, would rally instantaneously at the sound of the tocsin for the protection of their idols. Madame Roland, Makers of History They are to rendezvous, with blankets, provisions, etc., upon the sounding of the tocsin. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital “Did you expect me to ring the tocsin?” asked the Lizard. The Maids of Paradise All night long the dismal clang of the tocsin had summoned the fighting portion of the population to important points of defense. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series Here in this insignificant frontier town we wait the sounding of the tocsin. The Dop Doctor The chill night air crept in at the unglazed window, and the dismal tolling of the tocsin proclaimed that the metropolis was still the scene of tumult and of violence. Madame Roland, Makers of History The poor militia were allowed to return to their homes to-day; but an hour after the tocsin sounded, and they were compelled to assemble and march again. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital In the midst of these excited and alarmed exclamations came the solemn, portentous voice of the camel tolling out in the unnatural night the tocsin of the approaching hurricane. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton The solemn boom of the tocsin floated mournfully through the air. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series "When five o'clock sounds, and the tocsin from the mountain gives the signal of vengeance." The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul,—the dinner bell. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature May 4th.—This morning early the tocsin sounded, and the din, kept up for several hours, intensified the alarm. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital He stood with the nobility, resting proudly on their good intentions, and facing a brute force newly awakened by the tocsin of liberty. Lafayette The tocsin of insurrection tolls its dismal knell in the towers of Paris. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series The clock on the tower of the cathedral suddenly struck five! and a shrill funereal sound vibrated through the air; the tocsin thundered over the crowd, frozen in its delirium. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love Men endowed with a kind of frantic eloquence were engaged in haranguing the populace at the street-corners, others were in the churches ringing the tocsin as loudly as ever they could. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man About one o’clock last night, there was an alarm, supposed to be the approach of the enemy from the West—Sheridan’s cavalry—and the tocsin sounded until daylight. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital If the king was still on the throne upon the evening of that day, the people of Paris would sound the tocsin against him. Lectures on the French Revolution Barricades were thrown up, and here and there church bells rang the tocsin. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) The whole country was by this time in a state of alarm; and the cur� of the place, being on the outlook, mounted the clock-tower and rang the tocsin. The Huguenots in France The one tocsin which exercises a dread significance in a peaceful and law-abiding English community at the present day struck a new and awful note in Hilton Fenley's brain. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The tocsin was sounded this morning at daybreak, and the militia ordered to the fortifications, to relieve some regiments of Longstreet’s corps, posted on this side of the river. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital But when the tocsin rang from the churches soon after midnight, the Paris combatants assembled slowly, and the event might be doubtful. Lectures on the French Revolution Upon the flight of a criminal tocsins were sounded, and the officers of the Brotherhood stationed within hearing took up a pursuit that left little hope for escape. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The church-bells were no longer rung for divine service; whenever their deep and prolonged sounds were heard in the fields, it was the tocsin, and all ran to arms. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 His visions were rudely dispelled by a gunshot, sharp, insistent, a tocsin of death in that sylvan solitude. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley At midnight on the ninth of August the tocsin was sounded in every quarter, and the generale was beat. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. When the tocsin rings, said a member of the Commune, the Convention ceases to exist. Lectures on the French Revolution The tocsin was sounded, and the populace thronged into the court-yard, thinking that the palace was on fire. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality He spoke through the confusion of the place: "Sound the tocsin!" Barbarians The Bishop threatened to sound the tocsin, to rouse against them the people who would kill them like dogs for profaning, violating, and stealing the miraculous images and holy relics. The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920 On the 10th of August, the tocsin sounded, the g�n�rale beat in every quarter of Paris, and that famous insurrection took place which overturned the throne. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges He felt safer under arrest; but he advised his friends at the Commune to ring the tocsin, close the barriers, stop the Press, seize the post, and arrest the deputies. Lectures on the French Revolution All the rest, except those who had fled, were exiled to Siberia, and with them was banished the very church-bell which had called them out by its tocsin peal. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The curse of high-placed guilt Is on you, if the warning tocsin's knell, Clanging forth fiercely, hath not force to tell The hearer that Fate's hourglass fast runs out. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893 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. 'My Beloved Poilus' The call of the tocsin and alarm-drums is answered by the noise of barring shutters and bolting doors. The Gods are Athirst When the signal was given, the tocsin rang in 600 parishes. Lectures on the French Revolution He had not an ounce of superfluous energy to answer his wife’s tocsin. The Squirrel-Cage Since the tocsin sounded we have gone from bad to worse. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Ices and beer and cherries and peaches successively filled up the weary hours until "the tocsin of the soul, the dinner bell," carried joy to their hearts. A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes But above the rustling of the trees and the girl's voice, he could hear the tocsin and alarm-drums, the distant tramp of horses, and rumbling of cannon along the streets. The Gods are Athirst They rang the tocsin, bringing all the trained battalions and all the ragged bands of the city to the Place de Grève. Lectures on the French Revolution It was the tocsin peal, announcing the approach of an enemy, and summoning the citizens to the ramparts. The Lily of Leyden He denounced the money power, banks and the whole credit system and sounded a fierce tocsin of danger against the increasing influence of wealth in politics. The Frontier in American History As they are the strongest, you only give them a good excuse by sounding the tocsin against them right and left. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. The bells that had sounded out the tocsin, at the outbreak of the insurrection, were for the most part broken in pieces and melted. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 “Again the whiskered Spaniard all the land with terror smote; And again the wild alarum sounded from the tocsin’s throat.” Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer At the warning that a band of Bernese Lutherans was preparing to invade Gruyère, the Fribourgeois summoned the people to be ready at the sound of the tocsin to take arms to repel them. The Counts of Gruyère Such was the military condition of the United States when the War of the Rebellion sounded the tocsin of alarm, and our generation was called upon to meet the gravest struggle in American history. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. For him by whom a thirsty ear is lent to the world's homage, the tocsin of feebleness, if not of failure, has already sounded. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 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. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 By this time the news came of the surrender of Verdun to the Prussians, and the tocsin began to sound from the great bells of the cathedral. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 The horn of the Alps, sounding the tocsin over the rocky defile of the Swiss Thermopylae, announced the approaching end of the feudal rule of the middle ages and the dawn of liberty in Switzerland. The Counts of Gruyère The sound of running feet became audible in the kitchen above, while bass voices were added to the shrill soprano that had sounded the former tocsin. Just Patty The tocsin was ringing from the steeples, there was a rush of people towards the Tuileries, and cries of “A bas Robespierre”—the most wonderful cry Paris had heard yet. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Finally a threat to set fire to the belfry put an end at once to the ringing of the tocsin and to the holy shower. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 Immediately he dreamt that he heard the tocsin and took part in the events of June, 1848. Dreams The knell of retreat no longer sounds in our hearts; the tocsin rings there instead. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 More stirring times, however, were as frequent—times when the tocsin rang out from the steeple all night long, calling the citizens to arms. German Culture Past and Present What priest does not know that tocsin of the night, and the start from peaceful slumbers? My New Curate They now rang the tocsin, but no one came to their rescue, and the stronghold was speedily taken. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 This was not altogether pleasant to some of the old Nestors of the Senate, who wanted once more to sound the war tocsin. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Personally, I believe a tocsin to be some kind of highly paid official. The Napoleon of Notting Hill And her "No!" rang out deep and clear as a warning tocsin. Everyman's Land The Italian for a peal of bells is tocco di campana, and we have the word in English under the form tocsin, an alarm bell. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries Lamentations and shrieks, the roar of artillery, the uninterrupted peals of the tocsin, calling out the inhabitants, mingled with the crash of the falling houses, and the wails of the wounded and dying. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia The tocsin you will hear presently is not a signal of alarm; it is ringing the charge against the enemies of our country. The French Revolution A Short History They are a timely tocsin for five o'clock tea, because punctually at that hour they shut up their showy petals until 9.0 a.m. on the following morning. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Frenchmen had the next turn—for a brief space only; since Palermo cried to the sound of her tocsins, 'Mora, Mora,' and the tyranny of Anjou was expunged with blood. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series With the tocsins ringing in his ears, jangling discordantly with the servile doctrines of Paul and Luther, Calvin set to work to forge a theory that should combine liberty with order. The Age of the Reformation He had only to sound the tocsin, summon his devoted townsmen, surround the house, and ask respectfully for explanations. Historical Mysteries The latter appurtenance was one of those old-fashioned knob-and-wire tocsins, and its clangorous voice was calculated to arouse, not only the house whereof it was a fixture, but the neighborhood round about. The President A novel For clear as a tocsin from the steeple Is the cry gone forth along the land, Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand? A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Then as a deep-toned tocsin tolls, A voice spoke forth: "Behold your souls!" The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar It was said that his wife was sometimes aroused at night by what appeared to be the fire tocsin, only to discover that it was her recumbent husband producing these bell-like sounds in his sleep. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens She looked into the large cafés, and read the Agony Column of the Figaro, which every morning seemed to her like a tocsin, a summons to love. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 Things began to turn red for Thomas Jefferson, and a high, buzzing note, like the tocsin of the bees, sang in his ears. The Quickening When they arrived in the wood a crowd was already there; from the neighbouring villages where the tocsin still sounded, people came, drawn entirely by curiosity. The House of the Combrays We are of the people's party, you and I, Mannering, and I tell you that the tocsin has sounded. A Lost Leader At midnight the tocsin rang out upon the night, and the horror began. A Short History of France In 1861, when the Southern tocsin sounded and Virginia's voice was heard calling for troops, he raised a cavalry company and joined the Army of Northern Virginia. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session It was more than a tocsin, more than a dance rhythm, more than the spring call. Lydia of the Pines The noise of the firing had already alarmed the neighbourhood; the tocsin sounded at Potigny, Ouilly-le-Tesson and Sousmont; peasants flocked to each end of the wood, but they were unarmed and dared not advance. The House of the Combrays The Austrian declaration of war has put the flatterers of royalty into such spirits, that if the tocsin were sounding at this instant, they would not believe in the danger. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 At last they were successfully driven off, and we settled down hoping our excitements were over for the night, but no, at 3.30 a.m. the tocsin again rang out a third alarm! Fanny Goes to War As an immediate result of the journalistic tocsin, the forebodings of Dr. Surtaine and his associates as to the effects of publicity bade fair to be justified. The Clarion The Baroness de Simonie bounded like a tigress through the room, tearing at the bell till it sounded like a tocsin and the servants came rushing in terror from the anteroom. A Conspiracy of the Carbonari Ten years later he burnt the Bull of the Pope in the public square of Wittemberg, and all Europe rang with the tocsin of the Reformation. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood This was the tocsin to the church, and it came down in force with the opposition to the Governor elect. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest The tocsin was rung in the Place d'Armes about 11.30 p.m. followed by heavy gunfire from our now more numerous defences. Fanny Goes to War But have no fear, the tocsin will sound. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France And that news was a tocsin for town committeemen who had been dozing. The Ramrodders A Novel His oppression becoming intolerable, the tocsin was sounded in the streets of Novgorod, and the whole populace rose in insurrection. The Empire of Russia Again Mack bayed, and the echoing bell tones of his voice took on a strange similarity to a tocsin of warning. The Silent Places The tocsin bells tolled, and the citizens, whose sleep was Page 140not apt to be heavy during that perilous winter, soon manned the ramparts again. A Wanderer in Holland Her words rung like a tocsin of the bright romance conjured up by the avowal of their love. The Wings of the Morning The tocsin was sounded; the people were assembled in parliament upon the piazza. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series We can't sound the loud tocsin on a lot of our own paras. A Daughter of To-Day She often said to me, in those revolutionary nights when we sat listening for the sound of the cannon or the tocsin from Paris—'France is an abyss, in which the throne must sink. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 When the tocsin rings and the men disappear they simply go on. The Living Present The bully looked the slim newcomer over again, and as he looked there rang inside him some tocsin of warning. A Man Four-Square On the 1st of April, in the earliest morning light, the tocsin was heard ringing with more fury than ever, and the insurgents reopened fire with an entirely new desperation. The Liberation of Italy An infallible instinct told him which genre should be chosen at any given moment; a secret tocsin sounded far-off the hour of his success. The Divine Fire I could soon see the effect of the tocsin in the new crowds which recruited our assailants from all sides. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 He happened to have two vessels in that port when the tocsin of insurrection rang out its fearful notes. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs For a space she heard Matilda toss about, draw long, tremulous breaths; then from the couch of that elderly virgin sounded the incontrovertible tocsin of deep sleep. No. 13 Washington Square According to the old usage their first impulse was to run to the belfries in order to sound the tocsin, but they found that the royalists had removed the clappers of the bells. The Liberation of Italy Yon deep bell tolls no matin—'tis the tocsin's hurried blare! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 It became necessary to sound the financial tocsin in the ears of all the Union. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Associated words: credulous, incredulous, credulity, credibility, incredibility, gull, gullible, gullibility. believable, a. credible. belittle, v. decry, disparage, underrate, depreciate. bell, n. campana, carillon, curfew, tocsin, gong. Putnam's Word Book A thousand times it had been sworn by tens of thousands of Irishmen, that the tocsin of battle would find them clustered round the good old flag to conquer or die beneath its shadow. Speeches from the Dock, Part I This operated as effectually as ringing a tocsin, to assemble the whole village round the camp. The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. His loud voice resounded like a tocsin above the murmurs of the Girondists. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History He had not an ounce of superfluous energy to answer his wife's tocsin, while she was almost crying with nervous exhaustion. Quit Your Worrying! Ah, no: 'tis the tocsin of terror that tolls from the desolate shrine; And the down-trodden vineyards are flowing, but not with the blood of the vine. Poems Cannon were placed on the roof of the building where the old Monumental firebell had been installed as a tocsin of war. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts Happily, in the most alarming of all times for France, that of the revolution, this bell, though appointed the tocsin, had scarcely ever occasion to sound. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 The Girondists, at the sound of the tocsin and the drums, met for the last time, not to deliberate, but to prepare and fortify themselves against their death. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History Whenever you shall hear the tocsin of victory sounding in the North, then listen for the echoing cry of emancipation—for you will hear it. Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession At eleven o'clock the tocsin rang, oh, la la, monsieur, what a fracas! A Volunteer Poilu The tocsin ceased, but the drum rolled on. My Home in the Field of Honor The tocsin seems to be sounded to America. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II Therefore on the night of August 9 the tocsin sounds; of Insurrection. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History The bell of the Dorade, the opposition vessel, was sounding its tocsin to summon passengers on board, while ours was altogether mute. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay An insurrection amongst the populace of Grenoble, soon supported by the villagers from the mountains, had at first flown to arms at the sound of the tocsin. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 The tocsin sounded everywhere; barricades sprang up in the twinkling of an eye; they were made within thirty paces of the Louvre. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 But of such themes forbear to tell— May never War awake this bell To sound the tocsin or the knell— Hush'd be the alarum gun. The Illustrated London Reading Book Two other great Italian houses of the Commonwealth, rearing their towers above the town for tocsin and for ward, owe immortality to their intrinsic beauty. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Aeroplanes likewise had heard the tocsin; they had sterner business than wafting lovers through the sky; they were carrying explosives and messages in the service of France. In the Claws of the German Eagle Insulted Liberty her tocsin rung; Again Britannia to the combat sprung: Star of the Nations! her auspicious form Led on their march, and foremost braved the storm. Poems (1828) The illuminated village had seized hold of the tocsin, and, abolishing the lawful ringer, rang for joy. A Tale of Two Cities To dream of hearing a tocsin sounded, augurs a strife from which you will come victorious. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition The captain concluded, amidst loud applause, by calling upon the parishioners to sound the tocsin, rush to the poll, free themselves from dictation, or be slaves for ever. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people They sounded the tocsin, organised a militia of 12,000 men, took muskets and cannon from the Invalides, and on the 14th of July the armed bands marched upon the Bastille. The Psychology of Revolution ‘If he but saw this, he would sound the tocsin—we should all be butchered.’ Prince Otto, a Romance In reply to this overwhelming argument of the Jesuit, the sire of Montalte would have sounded the tocsin, and would have shouted that society was in peril,—that the Jesuits were sapping its very foundations. What is Property? It was the trackers exulting on the trail of the pursued, the prolonged, raucous howl, eager, ominous, vibrating with the alarm of the tocsin, sullen with the heavy muffling note of death. The Octopus : A story of California The stricken tocsin quivers through the tower; The triple nave, the apse, the lonely choir Are circled, hour by hour, With thundering bands of fire And Death is scattered broadcast among men. Main Street and Other Poems Paris drinks a million litres of water a day, but that does not prevent it from occasionally beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. Les Misérables Disorder reigned rampant, and the cavern rang with a thousand echoes, while the Bell awoke and roared a raging tocsin, redoubling the din. The Bronze Bell The tocsin has sounded, and the rats have come out of their holes! The Great Secret That malodorous tocsin, which I have compared to the big bell of Notre Dame, had warned, and warned, and warned in vain. Peter Ibbetson During the evening the people had repaired to the Hôtel de Ville, and requested that the tocsin might be sounded, the districts assembled, and the citizens armed. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 They are ringing the tocsin—things seem to be getting serious. Life in Mexico And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm! Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Let darkness vanish;—tocsins be resounding, And flash, ye guns! Poems It was rung as the tocsin, with that quick and wild movement which had startled me elsewhere in the depth of night with the cry of 'Fire! Two Summers in Guyenne Early in the morning the populace flocked to the Hôtel de Ville; the tocsin was sounded there and in all the churches; and drums were beat in the streets to call the citizens together. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 If congress don't step on a technicality and fall down, it looks like amusement ahead, and if a District of Columbia rule, or martial law, or tocsin of war is the result, Gov. Remarks In a calm, it is dumb; in a moderate breeze, it tolls gently; but in a gale, it is an alarum like the tocsin, warning all mariners to flee. Redburn. His First Voyage Such, O monarchs of earth! was your banquet of power, But the tocsin has burst on your festival hour— 'Tis your knell that it rings! Poems It was a far more comforting message for the Augustan Age, but it could not silence the tocsins of the French Revolution which sound throughout the speeches of Misson and Carracioli. Of Captain Mission It forced the guard that stood at the door, and penetrated into the interior, clamouring for bread and arms; it broke open doors, seized weapons, sounded the tocsin, and marched towards Versailles. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 When the American humorist really puts on his war paint and sounds the tocsin, he can organize a great deal of mourning. Remarks Can Martin have forgotten to sound the tocsin? Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range The death of the nominal leader, whose formal superiority, wounding no vanity, and offending no pride, secured in their councils equality among the able, was the tocsin of their anarchy. Coningsby Then came at once the tocsin cry on, Alarm and fluttering consternation. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes The assembly had met at the sound of the tocsin. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Ho! sound the tocsin from my tower, and fire the culverin; Bid each retainer arm with speed; call every vassal in. The American Union Speaker The city was now fairly up, the tocsin was rung, everybody took up arms, barricades were thrown up everywhere, and troops bivouacked in the streets. Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir The city of the priests, with its papal palace, its hundred churches, its innumerable bell-towers, ever ready to sound the tocsin of conflagration, the knell of slaughter. The Companions of Jehu The tocsin was heard everywhere in the mountain villages; the bridges over the streams were broken down, and every little town had to be carried with the bayonet. World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France The cannon were again fired, the tocsin sounded, the barriers were closed, and the massacre began. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Hence the French houses in each settlement were generally close to one another for mutual protection; the church in the centre to sound the tocsin of alarm. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present Then from some far-off aerie would ring the tocsin of an elfin silversmith, fast, furious, and tiny: "Ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping!" From a Bench in Our Square However commonplace this incident may appear to the reader, to us it was the tocsin of danger. The Young Trail Hunters Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West It was Germany that had sounded the tocsin; and it is difficult to believe that some startling coup was not even then being planned by the leaders of her military party. Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) Some deputies, meanwhile, aroused by the tocsin, had hurried to the hall of the legislative body, and had opened the sitting under the presidentship of Vergniaud. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Already, before hearing them, his head is half stunned with the unaccustomed sounds ringing in his ears; which ears seem to him like belfries full of tocsins. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War Alarm -- N. alarm; alarum, larum†, alarm bell, tocsin, alerts, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, note of alarm, hue and cry, fire cross, signal of distress; blue lights; war-cry, war-whoop; warning &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases The scene changes; the great individual actors in the Revolution enter: the tocsin clangs; the stage is reddened with human blood and wreathed in flames. Halleck's New English Literature The tocsin was sounded, the citizens assembled, armed cap-a-pié, and after much hard fighting, the rebellion was crushed, and large numbers of the insurgents were slain or arrested. An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States As a citizen," said a member of the commune, "as a magistrate of the people, I come to announce to you that this evening, at midnight, the tocsin will sound, the drum beat to arms. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 The Mayor, Fleuriot, closed the barriers, sounded the tocsin, and forbade any jailer to receive the prisoners; while Henriot, who had already been drinking, mounted a horse and galloped forth to rouse the city. The Theory of Social Revolutions The magistrates sounded the tocsin: the National Guard beat to arms: the king and queen were prisoners. The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France Before many weeks have passed, the tocsin will be sounding. The Double Traitor Their eloquence is sad, sounding like the tocsin of departed glories, protesting earnestly--but without effect--against those corruptions which it was too late to heal. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity It was decided on the preceding day at the Jacobins and Cordeliers to shut the barriers, sound the tocsin, and march in two bands on the convention and the ministers. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 —But foes are gathering—Liberty must raise Red on the hills her beacon's far-seen blaze; Must bid the tocsin ring from tower to tower!— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 Now as they came forth of the minster, the tocsin rang loud in sudden alarm. Beltane the Smith I dream that I hear the ringing of bells; this soon becomes a tocsin, and I imagine myself in the days of June, 1848. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics These, however, when the Spaniards advanced, gave the alarm, the watchers in the churches sounded the tocsins, and the sleeping citizens sprang from their beds, seized their arms, and ran towards the threatened point. By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic The whole night was spent in making preparations; the tocsin rang, drums beat to arms, the people gathered together. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 The dreadful tocsin, and the hurrahs of the victors, pierced the soul of Thaddeus. Thaddeus of Warsaw And now from within the waking city rose a confused sound, a hum that grew louder and ever more loud, pierced by shout and trumpet-blast while high above this growing clamour the tocsin pealed alarm. Beltane the Smith By and by howls and shouts were heard, and the tocsin was heard, ringing, alarm guns firing, and reports came in to the prisoners of the Abbaye that the populace were breaking into the prisons. A Book of Golden Deeds There was a quality in her voice that might, from what she saw upon his face, have been a tocsin's roll. This Freedom The tocsin was immediately sounded, the barriers closed, the general council assembled, and the sectionaries called together. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Around the base of the monument groups of citizens congregated until the cars were forced to slow down and proceed with a clangor of gongs which served only as a tocsin to draw more recruits. The Net It was the tocsin ringing out its terrible message; and yet another steeple sounded its two notes, and another and another. Here, There and Everywhere They had called it "a matchless inspiration" and "a mass of compromises;" "the charter of liberty" and "a league with Hell;" "the tocsin of liberty" and "the manacle of the slave." Bricks Without Straw Cannon boomed, the great bell of Notre-Dame sounded the tocsin, and naturally we did not go to school. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville The tocsin, which had been removed from the commune after its defeat, and placed on the top of the Tuileries, where the convention sat, sounded the alarm. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 He was ringing the tocsin, which was to call together the people of the village. La Vendée The tocsin rings for great fires, for revolution, or, as in this case, for a Declaration of War. Here, There and Everywhere We didn't even know Murray's whereabouts—thought he was in Kyak, until he sounded the tocsin from New York. The Iron Trail It was on that dark and cold December night, amid the bitter wailing of the tocsin, that Miette and Silvere exchanged one of those kisses that bring all the heart's blood to the lips. The Fortune of the Rougons And then like the sound of a tocsin ringing in his ears, the words of the Prophet Khosrul, as pronounced in the presence of the King, recurred to his memory with new and suggestive force. Ardath He was sounding the tocsin, and he felt the importance of what he was doing. La Vendée To the end of my life I shall remember the weeping women, and the haggard-eyed men in that little town, and the two sharp strokes of the tocsin, sounding like the knell of hope. Here, There and Everywhere Little more than a minuted had elapsed since the moment when the first peremptory order, to open in the name of the Republic, had sounded like the tocsin through the stillness of the house. I Will Repay It was, so to say, a rapid presentiment, a desire for some strange voluptuousness, to which Heaven, by the mournful accents of the tocsin, was promising early gratification. The Fortune of the Rougons The 'Star-spangled Banner' has the peculiar merit of not being a tocsin song, like the 'Marseillaise.' Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life The tocsin had been rung in the three neighbouring parishes, and about seven hundred men had been collected. La Vendée The Maire then ordered the tocsin to be sounded in half an hour's time, when it would also ring out from every church steeple in France. Here, There and Everywhere The terrible words beat on Aubrey's ears like the brazen clang of a tocsin, for he knew they were true. The Master-Christian Amidst the continuous rumbling of the torrent, the insurgents could distinguish the sharp, wailing notes of the tocsin. The Fortune of the Rougons P'raps now Miss Tickler's tocsin Has caged that pert young linnet; Old Birch perhaps is boxing My Gus's ears this minute. Verses and Translations Turnbull, an aggressive and violent writer, in a stirring series of papers published in 1827, under the title of The Crisis, over the signature of Brutus, sounded the tocsin of resistance. Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 Before us lay Normandy, looking inexpressibly peaceful in the evening sunlight, and over that quiet countryside the tocsin was sending its tidings of woe, as it was from every church tower in France. Here, There and Everywhere On the evening before the 10th of August the tocsin was heard to sound and the drums to beat to arms. In the Reign of Terror They remained silent, listening in great dejection to the sounds of the tocsin, which made the darkness quiver. The Fortune of the Rougons And now they heard also the loud booming of artillery, and the ringing of the tocsin at Brunecken and St. Lawrence. Andreas Hofer Bugles blew by land and sea, And the tocsin drum; See, brave hearts go down the hill, Shouting, "Hail, we come." Ballads of Peace in War It sounded like the tocsin, dull and muffled. The Elusive Pimpernel The cannon's roar and the tocsin sounded perpetually. In the Reign of Terror It felt that it was surrounded by a region in open rebellion, where the tocsin was ever ringing and the "Marseillaise" was ever roaring like a river that has overflowed its banks. The Fortune of the Rougons The tocsin, however, had aroused not only the Tyrolese, but also the Bavarians who were locked up in the barracks; the prisoners understood full well what the bells were proclaiming. Andreas Hofer Ding-ding-ding-ding it went, a tocsin summoning the assistance of all true sons of Mother Church. The Snare The tocsin sounded in the Senate was heard in the lower house. The Story of a Mine You will cause the tocsin to be sounded. Notre-Dame De Paris People spoke of him now as "Monsieur Isidore, don't you know? the gentleman who sounded the tocsin with a hammer!" The Fortune of the Rougons The courageous sons of the Tyrol rushed down from all the heights, the tocsin of Brunecken and St. Lawrence had not called them in vain. Andreas Hofer The words of Danton in the National Assembly, Sept. 2nd a little before two o'clock, just as the tocsin and cannon gave the signal of alarm agreed upon. The French Revolution - Volume 2 Daylight comes, the tocsin is sounded, the drums beat to arms, and the patriot militia of the neighborhood, the Protestants from the mountains, the rude C�venols, arrive in crowds. The French Revolution - Volume 1 It was the tocsin of the Vigilance Committee, summoning the members to assemble at their quarters for a capture, a trial, or an execution of some wrongdoer. Under the Redwoods To augment the tumult, and prolong the terror of the slumbering town, he begged Granoux to repair to the cathedral and have the tocsin rung at the first shots he might hear. The Fortune of the Rougons "You still live; the bells you hear are ringing the tocsin; they aroused us because the French and Bavarians are advancing upon the city." Andreas Hofer On the 2nd of September, at the alarm given by the tocsin and cannon, Prudhomme calls on Danton at his house for information. The French Revolution - Volume 2 One hundred and fifty parishes have sounded the tocsin, and the insurrection spreads for ten leagues around. The French Revolution - Volume 1 Just now, as the clock struck the hour, we went on to the balcony listening and saying: "It is the tocsin!" The Memoirs of Victor Hugo I must tell you that I removed the clapper of the bell, by his Reverence's order, precisely to prevent the tocsin from being sounded. The Fortune of the Rougons Meanwhile the tocsin resounded incessantly, as if to invite the Tyrolese to redoubled efforts and increased vigilance. Andreas Hofer The tocsin about to be rung is not a signal of alarm, but a charge on the enemies of the country... The French Revolution - Volume 2 In effect, two of the municipal officers cause the tocsin to be rung, and the whole village rushes to arms. The French Revolution - Volume 1 I dreamed that I could hear the murmur of angry crowds, and the report of distant firing; the tocsin was clanging from the church towers. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo "Ah!" he observed in his clear voice, "I hear the tocsin." The Fortune of the Rougons The bells of all the churches were ringing, not the tocsin, but peals of joy and thanksgiving. Andreas Hofer The perpetual Egyptian trouble had cropped up again and the Carleton papers, in particular, were already sounding the tocsin. All Roads Lead to Calvary I was just putting out my light when the telephone rang a furious tocsin in the next room. A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures The sky was red behind us, the air full of the clash and din of the tocsin, and the flood of sounds which poured from every tower and steeple. The House of the Wolf; a romance It is for the modern world to judge whether such instincts are indeed danger signals; and whether the hurting of moral as of material nerves is a tocsin and a warning of nature. A Miscellany of Men The tocsin was still ringing, and its sinister notes penetrated likewise into the large guard-house, and spoke to the prisoners confined there. Andreas Hofer Making ourselves perfectly at home, we had no trouble in locating the herds in question, they having already sounded the tocsin to clear the way, claiming government beef recognized no local quarantine. The Outlet He was stopped by four armed men, who fired at him; his eagerness saved him, for he ran toward one of the three passengers to tell him to make for Chesnay and ring the tocsin. The Brotherhood of Consolation Early in the morning they were awakened by a din of bells—the tocsins of the sections ringing the alarm. Scaramouche She did not hear the tocsin this time; she felt it on her spine—the drums of fear. The Drums of Jeopardy Already on the following morning the tocsin sounded in all the valleys and on all the heights, and called upon the men to fight for the fatherland. Andreas Hofer The political banquets given in various important cities had been occasions for inflaming the public mind, and to the far-seeing, these banquets were interpreted as the sounds of the tocsin. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English It was that smile of the Cynic Triumphant, which has been the tocsin for many a cruel riot in Russian villages or mediaeval towns. Manalive Ministers, educators and sociologists everywhere hailed the event as the tocsin call that proclaimed the universal brotherhood of man. Whirligigs Industry has ceased in it; not sounds of the hammer and saw, but of the tocsin and alarm-drum. The French Revolution Hence, the tocsin was sounded, mounted messengers were Neat out in all directions, and on the following morning upward of two thousand able-bodied men arrived at Haspinger's camp. Andreas Hofer Her last words rang like the knell of a tocsin in his ears: "It's over, quite over!" Four Short Stories By Emile Zola They mount; and this Parish tocsin happily ceases. The French Revolution And so the Barriers are seized, and the generale beats, and tocsins discourse discord. The French Revolution The tocsin, by order, is pealing madly from all steeples. The French Revolution President may well cover himself; and have his own tocsin rung in 'the Pavilion of Unity;' the ship of the State again labours and leaks; overwashed, near to swamping, with unfruitful brine. The French Revolution The remnant of bells, except for tocsin, descend from their belfries, into the National meltingpot, to make cannon. The French Revolution Sections have gone singly, and jingled and evolved: but if they all went, or great part of them, and there, planting their Mai in these alarming circumstances, sounded the tocsin in their hearts? The French Revolution There are Three-thousand National Guards got in; before long they will count Ten-thousand; tocsins spreading like fire on dry heath, or far faster. The French Revolution They ring the Church bell by way of tocsin: and the Parish turns out to the work. The French Revolution Mortals half-dressed tumble out barrels, lay felled trees; scouts dart off to all the four winds,—the tocsin begins clanging, 'the Village illuminates itself.' The French Revolution This they know;—and set to jingling their Parish-bell by way of tocsin; with rapid effect! The French Revolution But hark! towards twelve o'clock, as one guesses, for the very stars are gone out: sound of the tocsin from Varennes? The French Revolution And the tocsins discourse stern music; and Henriot with his Armed Force has enveloped us! The French Revolution Old Marshal Maille and the gentlemen in black rise always in spirits, as the Insurrection does not rise: there goes a witty saying now, "Le tocsin ne rend pas." The French Revolution The poor Prisoners hear tocsin and rumour; strive to bethink them of the signals apparently of hope. The French Revolution Hark, while exhausted Representatives sit at victuals,—tocsin bursting from all steeples, drums rolling, in the summer evening: Judge Coffinhal is galloping with new Gendarmes to deliver Henriot from Tuileries Committee-room; and does deliver him! The French Revolution There sit Robespierre and Company, embraced by Municipals and Jacobins, in sacred right of Insurrection; redacting Proclamations; sounding tocsins; corresponding with Sections and Mother Society. The French Revolution Saint-Antoine booming out eloquent tocsin, of its own accord!—Friends, no: ye cannot put off the Insurrection; but must put it on, and live with it, or die with it. The French Revolution Two bells only are to remain in each Parish,—for tocsin and other purposes. The French Revolution O, between the clangour of these high-storming tocsins and that snore of Dulness, what a gamut: of trepidation, excitation, desperation; and above it mere Doubt, Danger, Atropos and Nox! The French Revolution Of all hopes now surely the joyfullest were, that the tocsin did not yield. The French Revolution How happy if the tocsin did not yield! The French Revolution Unhappy Friends, the tocsin does yield, has yielded! The French Revolution Submission beseems petitioners of a National Assembly; we are strangers in Versailles,—whence, too audibly, there comes even now sound as of tocsin and generale! The French Revolution The more touching is this other Solemnity, which happens on the morrow of the Lafayette tocsin: Proclamation that the Country is in Danger. The French Revolution In this manner wanes the slow night; amid fret, uncertainty and tocsin; all men's humour rising to the hysterical pitch; and nothing done. The French Revolution |
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