tocsin
- Examples
Quand j'entends le son du tocsin, je ne tiens plus en place. | As soon as I heard the sound of the bells, I immediately tried to get closer. |
En France, on laisse en repos ceux qui mettent le feu, et on persécute ceux qui sonnent le tocsin. | In France, we leave alone those who start fires, but we persecute those who sound the alarm. |
On sonna immédiatement le tocsin partout, et 10 000 hommes, auxquels se joignirent encore les restes de la armée de Baltringen, se rassemblèrent au camp de Bermatingen. | Alarm bells were sounded and 10,000 men, joined by the defeated remnants of the Baltringen troops, assembled in the camp of Bermatingen. |
Pourquoi n'ont-ils pas sonné le tocsin ? | Why didn't they raise the alarm? |
J'ai peut-être sonné le tocsin prématurément. - Vraiment ? | Well, perhaps I've called everyone in prematurely. |
Il est pas loin ! -Faudrait sonner le tocsin. | It's not far. Ring the bell. |
Dès que tu entends le tocsin de Vannes, | As soon as the alarm sounds, eh? |
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