How to Use "tocsin" with Example Sentences

1. A tocsin ringing from church steeples ;
2. 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 .
3. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation 's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds .
4. Glanced down from behind his chimneys at the darkening faces by the fountain below , and sent word to the sacristan who kept the keys of the church , that there might be need to ring the tocsin by-and-by .