His demand for immediate emancipation fell like a tocsin upon the ears of slaveholders.
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Tocsin
/ˈtɒksɪn/
Synonyms for "tocsin" (54 found)
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"This dismissal," he said, "is the tocsin of the St Bartholomew of the patriots."
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At half-past one, on the sounding of the tocsin (or bell of the public-house) about fifteen persons were collected, when the Rev. J. Bromley was called to the chair.
Source: wiktionary
The noise of drumming and trumpeting came from the Albany Street Barracks, and every church within earshot was hard at work killing sleep with a vehement disorderly tocsin.
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