| Drums can be heard beating the alarm, and the tocsin peals from the churches. |
| The tocsin, says a journal of the period, was heard on all sides. |
| The tocsin therefore was sounded and the hosts of guildsmen and burghers marched out to attack the enemy. |
| The illuminated village had seized hold of the tocsin, and, abolishing the lawful ringer, rang for joy. |
| On the 15th of October, at six in the morning, the tocsin was sounded in Paris. |
| 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. |
