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Definition of Tocsins
1. tocsin [n] - See also: tocsin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tocsins
Literary usage of Tocsins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Spirit in Modern English Literature by George Nauman Shuster (1922)
"In fact, these recurrent brushes with the outposts of the Catholic Spirit were
really tocsins that summoned the best of his powers, tocsins to which he ..."
2. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"And the tocsins discourse stern music; and Henriot with his Armed Force has
enveloped us ! And Section succeeds Section, the livelong day; demanding with ..."
3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1867)
"And the tocsins discourse stern music; and Henriot with his Armed Force has
enveloped us! And Section succeeds Section, the livelong day; demanding with ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc (1909)
"And the tocsins discourse stern music; and Henriot with his Armed Force has
enveloped us ! And Section succeeds Section, the livelong day; demanding with ..."
5. The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris (1903)
"... clanking, shrieking, their bells filling the air with the clangour of tocsins.
Men in visored caps shouted hoarsely, waving their arms or red flags; ..."
6. The French Revolution: A History. In Three Volumes. by Thomas Carlyle (1837)
"... the tocsins ring and the drums beat:—Under which peculiar circumstances, what
would an august National Convention please to direct us to do ? ..."
7. Life and Times of Madame de Staël by Maria Norris (1853)
"Before midnight on the 9th of August, 1792, the forty-eight tocsins of the sections
of ... These tocsins were the rallying-cry of violence and rebellion. ..."
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