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Toll   /toʊl/   Listen
Toll

noun
1.
A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance).
2.
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?"
3.
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)
1.
Ring slowly.
2.
Charge a fee for using.



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"Toll" Quotes from Famous Books



... catastrophe. Shere Ali was brought reluctantly to the table in the corner of the great balcony upon the first floor. He had little to say, and it was as evident to the two men who entertained him as it had been to Colonel Dewes that the last few weeks had taken their toll of him. There were dark, heavy pouches beneath his eyes, his manner was feverish, and when he talked at all it was with a boisterous and ...
— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason
... Verona he had met with many adventures, especially one in which he overcame twelve robbers who held a strong castle by a bridge and were wont to take toll of travellers. These robbers seeing Witig draw nigh parted among them in anticipation his armour and his horse, and planned also to maim him, cutting off his right hand and right foot, but with the good ...
— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin
... only a small part of the total effort that must be made—I think chiefly by the local governments throughout the Nation—if we expect to reduce the toll of crime that we ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Lyndon B. Johnson • Lyndon B. Johnson
... What! Not a single flagon of wine in the room? This makes my deep regret almost unbearable. Surely, Beilstein, you might have amended that, if only for the sake of an old and constant comrade. Truth, gentlemen, until I heard the bell of the castle toll, I had no thought that this was the day of our meeting, and then, to my despair, I found myself an hour away, and have ridden ...
— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr
... shell never falls twice in the same place. You've paid your toll to misfortune—why should your wife be picked out ...
— Soldiers Three • Rudyard Kipling


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