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Yet, so curiously constituted is the native mind, the blowing-up of the magazine was the final tocsin of revolt.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYThe 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, 1942VARIOUSYon deep bell tolls no matin—'tis the tocsin's hurried blare!
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSEach morning at dawn the tocsin sounded from Ste. Gudule, and the people rushed to the barricades.
BELGIUMGEORGE W. T. (GEORGE WILLIAM THOMSON) OMONDThe announcement of supper, the tocsin of liberty to a majority of the company, interrupted their lively dialogue.
ALONEMARION HARLANDWhat priest does not know that tocsin of the night, and the start from peaceful slumbers?
MY NEW CURATEP.A. SHEEHANHe was like some terrible tocsin, never rung till danger was imminent, but then arousing cities and nations as one man.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. VII, DECEMBER 1850, VOL. IIVARIOUSBarricades were thrown up, and here and there church bells rang the tocsin.
A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAREDWIN EMERSONThe quietness and the stillness of it all—only the tocsin ringing in the church towers, ringing all the afternoon.
THE WASTED GENERATIONOWEN JOHNSONAnd now the great bell of the "Palais de Justice" pealed forth the tocsin.
HISTORY OF THE RISE OF THE HUGUENOTSHENRY BAIRDWORDS RELATED TO TOCSIN
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