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> as lemmasto take its toll c1480 (a1400) St. Agatha 256 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 365 Þane bad he..brynnand cole straw in þe floure..& nakyt þare-one hire rol, til scho of ded had quyt þe tol. 1870 J. C. Duval p. xv Wallace joined Colonel Hays's regiment..and was with it at the storming of Monterey, where he says he took ‘full toll’ out of the Mexicans for killing his brother and cousin..in 1836.a1882 D. G. Rossetti Introd. Sonn. in [Whether] In Charm's palm it pay the toll to Death.1909 July 19/2 Nott's gallant division..paid its toll of killed and wounded.1925 The toll of the road.1929 7 Nov. 2/3 Miners' members were artists in presenting the toll of the mines in its most impressive form.1959 6 Aug. 222/1 A thoroughly well-intentioned programme aimed at reducing the toll on the roads.1962 E. Roosevelt ii. xv. 123 The war had taken from France a heavy toll of her young men from 1914 to 1918.1972 N. Freeling ii. 189 In fact it had been very hardbought, some of the winnings, taking fearful tolls of nerve, straining every atom of him.1974 F. Forsyth xiv. 264 He felt tired and flat; the strain of the past thirty days was taking its toll.1974 C. Ryan iii. ii. 147 Forty-five patients were dead (the toll would increase to over eighty), and countless more were wounded.1981 9 June 6/3 The death toll in the train disaster..could be more than 1,000.1982 S. Brett xii. 113 The obscurity of the play, and the..lack of star names—all the elements which pessimists had predicted would work against the show—were now beginning to take their toll.< |