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.
At five o'clock yesterday morning the tocsin sounded from the Mairie (village hall) and men, women, and children all flocked to hear the proclamation which the Mayor of the village read.
Of all hopes now surely the joyfullest were, that the tocsin did not yield.
Industry has ceased in it; not sounds of the hammer and saw, but of the tocsin and alarm-drum.
Clermont may ring the tocsin now, and illuminate itself!
The poor Prisoners hear tocsin and rumour; strive to bethink them of the signals apparently of hope.
I heard it strike,--therefore the wind has changed; it comes from the land, and as I heard no other sound the tocsin must have ceased.
The proclamation of a decree to levy three hundred thousand men was the signal for ringing the tocsin in six hundred villages.
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.
In the mean time the populace had assembled at the Hotel de Ville, and loudly demanded the sounding of the tocsin and the arming of the citizens.
The tocsin rang forth a full peal; the gates of Paris were closed.
Early in the morning the people assembled in large bodies at the Hotel de Ville; the tocsin sounded from all the churches; the drums beat to summon the citizens together, who formed themselves into different bands of volunteers.
There was evidently something afoot to-night of which the Tocsin had NOT sounded the alarm.
Yes; he had invited much--he and she together--the Tocsin and himself.
Jimmie Dale was at the library door now, that, according to the plan the Tocsin had drawn for the Magpie, and as he remembered her description when she had told him her story earlier in the evening, was just at the foot of the staircase.
The Magpie was keeping up a running fire of questions, as the Tocsin toiled on with her pencil.
It was a strange adventure this that confronted him, quite the strangest in a way that the Tocsin had ever planned--and the night lay before him full of peril in its extraordinary complications.
The Magpie was to be there at three o'clock--and the Tocsin was to be there, too.
Connie Myers would not have wasted any time--as the Tocsinhad said, there was always present the possibility that the crime in that tenement might be discovered at ANY moment.
The Tocsin had been right; it was a very short flight.
Such was the social and political condition of the people in the spring of 1842, when the tocsin of war again sounded.
The appearance of a stranger was the signal for the ox-horned tocsin of alarm.
The tocsinwas rung, and the inhabitants assembled in arms.
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.
Party differences were forgotten as the tocsin sounded.
It was the tocsin summoning the country to defend itself.
The time has come for the old tocsin to sound, “Millions for defence, not a cent for tribute!
I; "what end can this tocsin have except to arouse all Europe and put it in movement!
In the midst of all these convulsions of the bell mingled with the revolt, the clock of Saint-Paul struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the hour is God.
Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of Saint-Merry.
The one which was blowing at that moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon.
The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make itself heard.
At midnight, the tocsin sounded; the générale was beaten.
The cannon were again fired, the tocsin sounded, the barriers were closed, and the massacre began.
These preparations made, early on the morning of the 31st the tocsin rang, the drums beat to arms, the troops were assembled, and all marched towards the convention, which for some time past had held its sittings at the Tuileries.
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.
The whole night was spent in making preparations; the tocsin rang, drums beat to arms, the people gathered together.
The tocsin was immediately sounded, the barriers closed, the general council assembled, and the sectionaries called together.
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.
If not that, then thetocsin on the great bell, Clovis.
The tocsin is the signal for our people in the salient.
If the king was still on the throne upon the evening of that day, the people of Paris would sound the tocsin against him.
When the signal was given, the tocsin rang in 600 parishes.
Alarm guns were fired, the tocsin sounded, the black flag proclaimed that the country was in danger, and the men of Paris were summoned by beat of drum to be enrolled for the army of national defence.
When the tocsin rings, said a member of the Commune, the Convention ceases to exist.
But when the tocsin rang from the churches soon after midnight, the Paris combatants assembled slowly, and the event might be doubtful.
Yes, he could quite fully understand why the Tocsin could not have warned Klanner to beware, for instance, of Kid Greer.
He had only to face one at a time; the Tocsin could absolutely be depended upon to see to that, and the advantage of surprise was with him.
And the Tocsin had not said--obviously because she, too, had been in the dark in that respect.
The Tocsinhad made no mistake, he was sure of that now, and-- Birdie Lee spoke again.
It was all here, all, the Tocsin had--no, not all!
The Tocsin had drawn an accurate word-plan of the crude, shack-like place, and now in his mind he reconstructed it here in the darkness.
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.
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.
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.
The tocsin was sounded, and the populace thronged into the court-yard, thinking that the palace was on fire.
The conspirators had got possession of all the churches; and as the hour of midnight struck, a single cannon-shot gave the signal, and from every steeple and tower in the city the fatal tocsin began to peal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tocsin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alarm; alert; beacon; buzzer; foghorn; horn; lighthouse; signal; siren; tocsin; whistle
