His demand for immediate emancipation fell like a tocsin upon the ears of slaveholders.
Source: tatoeba (9472814)
Tocsin
//ˈtɒksɪn//
Synonyms for "tocsin" (51 found)
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Translations
17 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- сигнал с камбана noun (an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell)
Finnish
2 entries- hälytyskello noun (bell)
- kellonsoitto noun (an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell)
French
1 entries- tocsin noun (an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell)
German
3 entries- Alarmglocke noun (bell)
- Alarmsignal noun (an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell)
- Glockenalarm noun (an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell)
Italian
2 entries- campana d'allarme noun (bell)
- segnale d'allarme noun (an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell)
Romanian
2 entries- clopot de alarmă noun (bell)
- semnal de alarmă noun (an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell)
Russian
2 entries- наба́т noun (an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell)
- наба́т noun (bell)
Spanish
1 entries- rebato noun (an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell)
Turkish
1 entries- alarm zili noun (bell)
Walloon
2 entries- ban-cloke noun (an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell)
- ban-cloke noun (bell)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
"This dismissal," he said, "is the tocsin of the St Bartholomew of the patriots."
Source: tatoeba (9472815)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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