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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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... this, is the fact that the floods upon our rivers, which every year take such heavy toll in property and in human life, are due to the cutting away of the forests. This allows the water from rain and melting snow to reach the streams at times faster than it can be carried off, and so ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... principles of this admirable machine of civil service very little understood at the period when he began his labor of reform in 1820. His scheme levied a toll on the consumption by means of direct taxation and suppressed the whole machinery of indirect taxation. The levying of the taxes was simplified by a single classification of a great number of articles. This did ...

— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac

... at that time, for he cared not to give untimely advice, and a moment after, a bell began to toll in the silence, and the chaplain came habited to conduct the Prince to his chapel. So they went the ...

— Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories - Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset • Arthur Christopher Benson

... midnight: It was the signal for being led to the Stake! As He listened to the first stroke, the blood ceased to circulate in the Abbot's veins: He heard death and torture murmured in each succeeding sound. He expected to see the Archers entering his prison; and as the Bell forbore to toll, he seized the magic volume in a fit of despair. He opened it, turned hastily to the seventh page, and as if fearing to allow himself a moment's thought ran over the fatal lines with rapidity. Accompanied by his former terrors, Lucifer again stood ...

— The Monk; a romance • M. G. Lewis

... that life is a highway and its milestones are the years, And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears. It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far, But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden ...

— Main Street and Other Poems • Alfred Joyce Kilmer

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