Do we say tocsin or toxin

tocsin 68 occurrences

" On this from Alpujarra the tocsin sounded high.

From post to post the signal along the border flies And the tocsin sounds its summons and the startled burghers rise, While in Baeza every bell Does the appalling tidings tell, "Arm! Arm!" Rings on the night the loud alarm.

The silver moon had shed its ray upon their targes round, The targes shot the message to the silent watch-towers by, And watch-towers sent their tidings by flames that lit the sky; And the fires had called the bells on high to ring their clear alarms That tocsin roused the lover locked in the lady's arms.

But foes are gatheringLiberty must raise Red on the hills her beacon's far-seen blaze; Must bid the tocsin ring from tower to tower!

Good Gaieta bedecks our saint serene With robes translucent, light-irradiate, Restoring her to all her natural sheen; The while my tocsin at the temple-gate Of the wide universe proclaims her queen, Pythia of first and last ordained by fate.

They sound the tocsin at the Chapelle Bréa.

Morny gave him full particulars; that guards had been placed in all the steeples; that all printing-presses had been placed under seal; that all the drums of the National Guard had been locked up; that there was therefore no fear either of a proclamation emanating from a printing-office, or of a call to arms issuing from a Mairie, or of the tocsin ringing from a steeple.

The magistrates sounded the tocsin: the National Guard beat to arms: the king and queen were prisoners.

The conspirators had got possession of all the churches; and as the hour of midnight struck, a single cannon-shot gave the signal, and from every steeple and tower in the city the fatal tocsin began to peal.

The tocsin was sounded, the citizens assembled, armed cap-a-pié, and after much hard fighting, the rebellion was crushed, and large numbers of the insurgents were slain or arrested.

The scene changes; the great individual actors in the Revolution enter: the tocsin clangs; the stage is reddened with human blood and wreathed in flames.

At midnight, six days later, on August 24, the tocsin sounded, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew began.

However commonplace this incident may appear to the reader, to us it was the tocsin of danger.

Yes, it's splendid to live so bravely, To be so great and strong, That your memory is ever a tocsin To rally the foes of wrong; To live so proudly and purely, That your people pause in their way, And year by year, with banner and drum, Keep the thought of your natal day.

And I hear the tocsin sounding In the village and the town; And the glare of burning cities Soon shall light me on my way Ha!

When the visitors, half an hour later, had taken their departure, Carteret, inspired by the theme, and in less degree by the famous mixture of the immortal Calhoun, turned to his desk and finished, at a white heat, his famous editorial in which he sounded the tocsin of a new crusade.

Their small navy can hardly find them enough work to keep their "hands in;" but doubtless the first knell of the accursed tocsin of war, while it gave them enough to do, would soon fill their dockyards with able and willing hands to do it.

Aeroplanes likewise had heard the tocsin; they had sterner business than wafting lovers through the sky; they were carrying explosives and messages in the service of France.

Two other great Italian houses of the Commonwealth, rearing their towers above the town for tocsin and for ward, owe immortality to their intrinsic beauty.

The tocsin of revolt.

THE TOCSIN OF REVOLT; and other essays, by Brander Matthews.

THE TOCSIN OF REVOLT; and other essays, by Brander Matthews.

But of such themes forbear to tell May never War awake this bell To sound the tocsin or the knell Hush'd be the alarum gun.

The tocsin seems to be sounded to America.

" "Tocsin is something to do with getting drunk.

toxin 9 occurrences

sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle. poison, toxin; teratogen; leaven, virus venom; arsenic; antimony, tartar emetic; strychnine, nicotine; miasma, miasm^, mephitis^, malaria, azote^, sewer gas; pest.

When the toxin of panic is in the air there is no antidote like vigorous action.

Whereat the mother, finding her protests disregarded, dried her eyes and set herself to fill the poor child's infrequent leisure with anti-toxin injections of the higher morality as conveyed in the poetry of TENNYSON.

The most striking part of the argument contained in the brief was the testimony of physicians on the toxin of fatigue.

It has discovered that fatigue is due not only to actual poisoning, but to a specific poison or toxin of fatigue, entirely analogous in chemical and physical nature to other bacterial toxins, such as the diphtheria toxin.

It has discovered that fatigue is due not only to actual poisoning, but to a specific poison or toxin of fatigue, entirely analogous in chemical and physical nature to other bacterial toxins, such as the diphtheria toxin.

It has been shown that when artificially injected into animals in large amounts the fatigue toxin causes death.

The fatigue toxin in normal quantities is said to be counteracted by an antidote or antitoxin, also generated in the body.

But as soon as fatigue becomes abnormal the antitoxin is not produced fast enough to counteract the poison of the toxin.

Do we say   tocsin   or  toxin