4 Words to use with alarum

There is the clear and beautiful dawn of new and balanced effort, easy, unresting, planned, assured, and there is also the blundering-up of a still half-somnolent man, irascible, clumsy, quarrelsome, who stubs his toe in his first walk across the room, smashes his too persistent alarum clock in a fit of nerves, and cuts his throat while shaving.

" The death of a man like Dryden, especially in narrow and neglected circumstances, is usually an alarum-bell to the public.

Hush'd be the alarum gun! Sheath'd be the sword!

And when one summer evening they paid their vows again, They heard the alarum ring to arms across the darkling plain; For the foes' approach had roused the watch and caused the war-like sound.

4 Words to use with  alarum