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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was still there when the tocsin sounded.
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I think he went on to the parapet and the tocsin was sounded to make him run.
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Secondly, Mowbray was lured to his death by the tocsin sounding.
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Some weeks later, the tocsin bell rang out throughout the fortress-monastery.
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The bell was the tocsin in the Tower!
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When the tocsin sounded I lurched out with the others to see what was wrong.