7719 examples of alarm in sentences

What does he do, therefore, but take a house in the neighbourhood on the sea-shore; and while my tormentor, in alarm and horror, watches every movement, and thinks him coming if he sees a cloud or a bird, Ordauro sets people secretly to work night and day, and makes a subterraneous passage up to the very tower!

In this December occurred the alarm from agrarian fires.

"We have lately been in alarm here on the subject of illness.

Vibullius, as soon as the alarm, which Caesar's unexpected arrival had raised, was over, began again to deliver Caesar's message in the presence of Libo, Lucius Lucceius, and Theophanes, to whom Pompey used to communicate his most confidential secrets.

[warning of fire] fire alarm, evacuation alarm, [laws to prevent fire] fire code, fire regulations, fire; fire inspector; code violation, citation.

[warning of fire] fire alarm, evacuation alarm, [laws to prevent fire] fire code, fire regulations, fire; fire inspector; code violation, citation.

We had all the needed accessories: the kind physician, anxious to amuse and fearful to alarm his patient,telling me always to keep up his spirits, to make him as cheerful and happy as I could; and the cruel friendsI had not far to seek for them.

I had an alarm one day.

" "Why don't you take Ben to Simpson's, or the detective?" suggested Conrad, in great alarm, bethinking himself that it would hardly do to take Ben, since the attendant would certify that he was not the one who pawned the glass.

Scarce had he finished the refrain when Moll within took it up in a faint trembling voice, but only a bar, to let us know we were heard; then she fell a-laughing at her maids, who were whispering in alarm, to disguise her purpose; and so they left that part, as we knew by their voices dying away in the distance.

I gave the alarm, and the boy looked round.

It contained not above twenty lines, all full of fright, alarm, and execration.

When they get to the verge protected by the net, they begin to take alarm; they are probably not very certain about the peculiar looking 'old cow' behind them, and running along the net, they see the decoy quails evidently feeding in great security and freedom.

Peace, which for a long time had been banished from her borders, returned, and she enjoyed for a few days unwonted freedom from alarm and trouble.

fly, girls! or the Philistines will be upon us!" cried Di, tumbling off her perch in sudden alarm.

Only a minute, half a minute, butsurely the Enemy tempted her!too long; for ere Miss Wimple, quick as she was to take the alarm, could turn and lead her away, Madeline's vigilant, fierce glance had caught sight of him, (alack!

repented the alarm he had, perhaps too impulsively, given.

The latter prodigy excited a greater degree of alarm, because it had frequently occurred.

Yet the air seemed quivering with an alarm about to burst forth.

Ralph bent over her in alarm.

With respect to the alarm that was apprehended, he conjectured there was none; but there might be just cause, if the memorial was not taken into consideration.

The planters and their families, in the utmost alarm, either fled into other parts of the island, or seized their arms and hurriedly mustered in self-defence.

But they need to feel no alarm at the progress of right who defend a limited monarchy and support their popular institutionswho place their chiefest pride not in ruling over slaves, be they white or be they blacknot in protecting the oppressor, but

Let an invading power send a naval force into the Chesapeake to keep Virginia in alarm, and attack South Carolina with such a naval and military force as Sir Henry Clinton brought here in 1780, and though they might not soon conquer us, they would certainly do us an infinite deal of mischief; and if they considerably increased their numbers, we should probably fall.

Our arrival at the Hotel St. James was a sensation, not without alarm.

7719 examples of  alarm  in sentences