| There's a splashing in the shallows, a dog raising its voice in ecstasy, the sharp tocsin of the lifeguard's whistle. |
| What priest does not know that tocsin of the night, and the start from peaceful slumbers? |
| Something about the brightness of that hyacinthine moment… Sound the tocsin in Tioga! |
| When war's loud tocsin sounded its alarm it woke them from dreaming in the dawning of their day and early in 1915 they enlisted vowing to be comrades through thick and thin unto the death. |
| As Stevenson's sleeping Winnie awakes to the sound of a terrifying tocsin, you feel she has to psych herself up for her incarcerated ordeal in the baking sun. |
| It was the tocsin of their doom, of the downfall of their establishments, and the ruin of their work. |
