By Tomyris on Cyrus, when she cried,
“Blood thou didst thirst for; take thy fill of blood!”
Dantê, Purgatory, xii (1308).
Ton-Iosal was so heavy and unwieldy that when he sat down it took the whole force of a hundred men to set him upright on his feet again.--The Fiona.
If Fion was remarkable for his stature, ... in weight all yielded to the celebrated Ton-Iosal.--J. Macpherson, Dissertation on Ossian.
Ton-Thena (“fire of the wave”), a remarkable star which guided Larthon to Ireland, as mentioned in Ossian’s Tem´ora, vii., and called in Cathlin of Clutha, “the red traveller of the clouds.”
Tonio, a young Tyrolese, who saved Maria, the sutler-girl, when on the point of falling down a precipice. The two, of course, fall in love with each other, and the regiment, which had adopted the sutler-girl, consents to their marriage, provided Tonio will enlist under its flag. No sooner is this done than the marchioness of Berkenfield lays claim to Maria as her daughter, and removes her to the castle. In time, the castle is besieged and taken by the very regiment into which Tonio had enlisted, and, as Tonio had risen to the rank of a French officer, the marchioness consents to his marriage with her daughter.--Donizetti, La Figlia del Reggimento (1840).
Tonna (Mrs.), Charlotte Elizabeth (1792-1846).
Tonto (Don Cherubin), canon of Tole´do, the weakest mortal in the world, though, by his smirking air, you would fancy him a wit. When he hears a delicate performance read, he listens with such attention as seems full of intelligence, but all the while he understands nothing of the matter.--Lesage, Gil Blas, v. 12 (1724).
Tonton, the smallest dog that ever existed. When the three princes of a certain king were sent to procure the tiniest dog they could find, as a present to their aged father, the White Cat gave the youngest of them a dog, so small that it was packed in wadding in a common acorn shell.