Listen: I hear the sound of the trumpet and the alarum of war.

For it was the alarum bell that rang in the battle.

At the same time he uttered the fierce alarum-yell of the Stoney tribe.

A corner of the room was guilty of the incessant alarum.

At once the wild alarum clashed from all her reeling spires:

The alarum formerly belonging to Frederick the Great was also missing.

The seven o'clock alarum woke him to the preparation of the evening meal.

The tambours sounded now with a great alarum, and the sun was shining.

The electrician rose from his seat suddenly, and struck the alarum.

There he kept it with his breath subdued, and the alarum severely quelled.

And that was when every alarum in the world went off at once.

Such a preface is ringing an alarum bell for an author.

One London firm is advertising thirty thousand alarum-clocks for sale at reduced prices.

His mouth opened to shout an alarum, but nothing came out.

Every man was on his feet, the place in alarum.

But scarcely anything less than the wild alarum of a tocsin will frighten him.