Chapter Tom Thumb to Tonio of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Tomkins (Joseph), secret emissary of Cromwell. He was formerly Philip Hazeldine, alias Master Fibbet, secretary to colonel Desborough (one of the parliamentary commissioners).—Sir W. Scott: Woodstock (time, Commonwealth).

Tommy Atkins, a British soldier, as Jack Tar is a British sailor. Explained in Phrase and Fable, p. 1235.

Tomyris, queen of the Massagetæ. She defeated Cyrus, who had invaded her kingdom; and, having slain him, threw his head into a vessel filled with human blood, saying, “It was blood you thirsted for—now take your fill.”

Great bronze valves embossed with Tomyris.
Tennyson: The Princess, v.
[I] was shown the scath and cruel mangling made
By Tomyris on Cyrus, when she cried,
“Blood thou didst thirst for; take thy fill of blood!’
   —Dante: 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.—Macpherson: Dissertation on Ossian.

Ton-Thena [“fire of the wave”], a remarkable star which guided Larthon to Ireland, as mentioned in Ossian’s Temora, vii., and called in Cathlin of Clutha “the red traveller of the clouds.”

Tonio, a young Tyrolese, who saved Maria, the suttler-girl, when on the point of falling down a precipice. The two, of course, fail in love with each other, and the regiment, which had adopted the suttler-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 (an opera, 1840).