Use "tocsin" in a sentence

1. The bell was the tocsin in the Tower!

2. He was still there when the tocsin sounded.

3. Secondly, Mowbray was lured to his death by the tocsin sounding.

4. The tocsin rang impatiently, but other help ( if that were any ) there was none.

5. 7 synonyms for Alarum: alarm, alert, tocsin, warning, warning signal, alarm, alert

6. Some weeks later, the tocsin bell rang out throughout the fortress-monastery.

7. I think he went on to the parapet and the tocsin was sounded to make him run.

8. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.