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Toll

noun

A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance).

Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something. Synonyms: cost, price. "The price of success is hard work" , "What price glory?"

The sound of a bell being struck. Synonym: bell. "She heard the distant toll of church bells"

verb

(past & past part. tolled; pres. part. tolling)

Ring slowly.

Charge a fee for using.

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"Toll" Quotes from Famous Books

... a varied company assembled at the "Green Man" according to ancient custom. Here were Inspector Chown, Mr. Chapple, Mr. Blee, Charles Coomstock, with many others; and the assembly was further enriched by the presence of the bell-ringers. Their services would be demanded presently to toll out the old year, to welcome with joyful peal the new; and they assembled here until closing time that they might enjoy a pint of the extra strong liquor a prosperous publican provided for his ...

— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts

... people on board the Empress of Ireland. They never in the slightest degree pretended to do so. What they did was to sell them a sea-passage, giving very good value for the money. Nothing more. As long as men will travel on the water, the sea-gods will take their toll. They will catch good seamen napping, or confuse their judgment by arts well known to those who go to sea, or overcome them by the sheer brutality of elemental forces. It seems to me that the resentful sea-gods never do sleep, and are never weary; wherein ...

— Notes on Life and Letters • Joseph Conrad

... no other country in the world has such an effort been made to keep men and women apart as in this strange land. In Seoul, the capital city, they used to toll a bell at eight in the evening which meant that men must go indoors and let women on the streets. Blind men, officials, and certain others were exempt. Any man with a doctor's prescription was allowed on the streets, but so ...

— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols

... craft ever traversing the canal was the dry-dock Dewey, sent under tow by the government from the United States to the Philippines. The tariff is now reduced to $1.70 per ton register, and $2 for every passenger. A ship's crew pay nothing. The toll for a steamer of average size, like a Peninsular and Orient liner, is about $10,000. I first passed the canal in a yacht of the New York Yacht Club, for which the tax was $400, and the last time I made the transit was in a German-Lloyd ...

— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield

... safe for the columbine to unfold its wrapper and the cuckoo-pint to toll its bell in the presence of a maiden so old. ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester

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