I have reason to believe that she would have mastered this fear, but at that instant Miss Caroline coughed rather alarmingly.

This is the ordinary course of scarlet fever with sore throat; but in many cases the symptoms run still higher, and the disease is alarmingly dangerous from its commencement.

It is alarmingly common with those who make a severe demand upon the eyes.

He pressed me hard, but not alarmingly so.

First, after a few rounds of the bottle, the tongues, which are tired of eulogizing or vituperating the various dishes which had smoked upon the board, gradually begin to be still,soon conversation comes absolutely to a stand,the candles grow alarmingly long in the wick,comparative darkness involves the sage assembly,and first one, then another, drops off into a placid and harmonious repose.

This of all characters upon the earth appears to us to be the one of which there is no hope at all, a character becoming in these days alarmingly abundant; and the aboundance of which makes us find even in a Reineke an inexpressible relief."

[Lady Minto had been and was then alarmingly ill.]

Each female thing had a "grip," and of these possessions they built the desk a mountain of volcanic formation, which looked alarmingly subject to eruptions and upheavals.

Mrs. Helm's health began to decline, but she would pay no attention to it, following her usual course and regular routine of household duties; but all in vain; she was taken down, alarmingly ill, and it became apparent to all, that the "king of terrors" had chosen his victim.

Their route to the snow-belt lay through sections of country which had become so soft and oozy that the horses often sank in mire, flank deep; and the streams were so swollen that progress was alarmingly slow.

There's a letter from Martin Whitney, too, that's almost alarmingly encouraging in its insistence that I mustn't worry.

A sleek, swarthy world-old young man with the fashionable concave torso, and alarmingly convex bone-rimmed glasses.

Lermontoff said that it was a precarious crop, a world luxury, the price of which fluctuated alarmingly.

One by one they disappeared, until the number decreased alarmingly; but no traces of them could be found.

Nor are they at all indifferent to art or decorative costume; many of them are alarmingly attached to these things.

My cough was increasing alarmingly, and, when I consulted a physician at New York, he advised me to get home and to bed as quickly as I might; so, returning to Boston, I called together the executive committee of the Club to dinner, made my report, drank a glass of champagne to the future lodge, and went to bed in the early stages of pneumonia, which kept me prostrate six weeks.

Lizzy, who had already begun to feel the effects of the morphine, lay motionless, and breathed somewhat heavily, but not alarmingly so.

As for John Buzzby, having been absent from home full half-an-hour beyond his usual dinner-hour, he felt that, for a man who had lashed his helm amid-ships, he was yawing alarmingly out of his course; so he spread all the canvas he could carry, and steered right before the wind towards the village, where, in a little whitewashed, low-roofed, one-doored, and two little-windowed cottage, his spouse (and dinner) awaited him.

He gulped alarmingly as the full knowledge overwhelmed him.

This spirit of bullying, this resort to violence, had recently become alarmingly frequent among members of Congress, especially as it all came from the pro-slavery party.

On the spot now occupied by the burial grounds formerly stood their college; and here they flourished until the population, originally abundant, diminished so alarmingly, as to induce them to remove to Warwick Lane.

Miss Munch assented with an alarmingly sweet smile.

" But despite this I slipped out a couple of yards farther, and had almost gotten to the knotted lasso, when the branch swayed and bent alarmingly.

She had kicked alarmingly when the salt was laid on her tongue, and squalled under the deluge of water which gave her her name and also wet Chonita's sleeve.

In the beginning of the affray he had brought his mule alongside of the headmost wagon, and there he had done really valuable service by blazing away alarmingly, though quite innocuously, at the gallopading enemy.