One of the outposts saw the Indians chasing me across the prairie, and gave the alarm.

The constable, taking alarm at this, left the crowd at Scowl Austin's, and went hurriedly across the meadow to the new centre of interest.

The entrance of the three new-comers caused a false alarm, and in a moment every one was in his proper seat.

He told his bugler to sound the alarm, and was walking towards the house to get a rifle when the man beside him fell shot through the heart.

I had no wish to be the occasion for laughter; it would be better first to ascertain who these parties were, rather than create an unwarranted alarm.

Master Dick excited the maternal alarm by throwing himself rapturously on the wounded hero and giving him the kiss he had denied Rosalind.

For an armed party of nearly thirty to cross an open plain, supposedly under the very eyes of the enemy's sentinels, without being discovered, is something of which to boast, yet we Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley did it without raising an alarm.

I could not see this rash Glonglim attempt to climb that dangerous ladder, without feeling alarm for his safety.

The first announcement spread alarm; but as the cargoes of gold rose from one hundred thousand dollars to one million dollars, bankers and financiers began seriously to prepare for an expected crisis.

I expected each second to hear an alarm raised which would bring the murderous crew to the spot without delay, when there could be no question as to the result, for the sergeant and I could not hold out many moments against such a mob, even though every one of them was intoxicated to a greater or less degree.

Two white men, who walked along the road past the vessel, and who presently returned back the same way, occasioned me some alarm; but they seemed to have no suspicions of what was on foot, as I saw no more of them.

So when I heard that the man I sought was this notorious buccaneer I showed my alarm by dropping my jaw. Mercer laughed.

Ought we not to catch the alarm while it is possible to make preparation against the danger?

Meanwhile the vindictive intentions of Minúchihr, which were soon known at Kábul, produced the greatest alarm and consternation in the family of Mihráb.

Pírán went first to pay a visit to Kámús, to whom he, almost trembling, described the amazing strength and courage of Rustem: but Kámús was too powerful to express alarm; on the contrary, he said: "Is praise like this to Rustem due?

Nor were there wanting some on the occasion who mutinied at the mere name and dread of the Punic sea, a tribune named Mannius increasing their alarm; but the general, threatening him with the axe if he did not obey, produced courage for the voyage by the terror of death.

During the reign of slavery, the Christmas holidays brought with them general alarm.

Locked thus within each other's arms, eye questioned eye, while ever the bell beat out its fierce alarm.

ilence, without moving our arms or heads, in order to prevent all alarm as much as possible, lest the snake should glide off, or attack us in self-defence.

The silver moon had shed its ray upon their targes round, The targes shot the message to the silent watch-towers by, And watch-towers sent their tidings by flames that lit the sky; And the fires had called the bells on high to ring their clear alarms That tocsin roused the lover locked in the lady's arms.

If the invader tampers with the window again, he will set off the alarm.

He smiled when he saw the alarm in her face.

"By the way, if you see smoke coming from the Knickerbocker Theatre Building, don't turn in a fire alarm, for it is just the Friars showing their good feeling by trying to smoke up all the Friar cigars and cigarettes in town.

This formidable league, this union, cemented by interest and fanaticism, struck alarm into the breasts of the royalists.

It was not until night that they found her, after her continued absence from camp had roused alarm, and searching parties had been made up to scour the woods.