10 Metaphors for alarms

Public alarm and distrust were day by day becoming stronger.

He knows we scrambled out of our houses this afternoon a little onthinkingly, Injin alarms being skeary matters.

But her alarm was the prelude of firmness, and not of cowardice.

They had been there several days, and this evenin', he thinkin' his eyes of her, and feelin' very sentimental as wuz nateral, wuz readin' poetry to her, she settin' the picture of happiness and contentment with her feet on a foot-stool, her pretty hands clasped in her lap, and her eyes lookin' up adorin'ly into hisen as he read: "Oh, beautious love, sweet realm of joy, No wild alarm shall ere thy sweet calm break.

These alarms are all wrongyour men are either soldiers or farmers; they cannot be both unless they live close enough to the forts.

The daily accounts of the outrages perpetrated in Ireland, and the alarms that are sounded ever and anon, touching the state of that unhappy country, are continually exciting surprise, that the natives of the sister island should be so unaccountably deficient in that sense of order and sobriety which prevails in Great Britain.

Then, turning to the left, because on the right the Tiber was a barrier against them, they continued to ravage the country, to the great consternation of the peasantry: the sudden alarm, reaching the city from the country, was the first announcement of the invasion.

But is this vulgar fright, this mere animal anxiety for the preservation of their persons,such as we have witnessed at a theatre, when a slight alarm of fire has been givenan adequate exponent of a supernatural terror?

But at this time the Sempronian army, commanded by Cneius Cornelius the quaestor, being descried at a distance, excited alarm in both parties equally, lest those who were approaching should be fresh enemies.

It will be remembered that the unsettled state of the country since the battle of Tippecanoe, the preceding November, had rendered every man vigilant, and the slightest alarm was an admonition to "beware of the Indians.

10 Metaphors for  alarms