An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger.
1 Listen: I hear the sound of the trumpet and the alarum of war.
2 For it was the alarum bell that rang in the battle.
3 At the same time he uttered the fierce alarum - yell of the Stoney tribe.
4 A corner of the room was guilty of the incessant alarum .
5 At once the wild alarum clashed from all her reeling spires:
6 The alarum formerly belonging to Frederick the Great was also missing.
7 The seven o'clock alarum woke him to the preparation of the evening meal.
8 The tambours sounded now with a great alarum , and the sun was shining.
9 The electrician rose from his seat suddenly, and struck the alarum .
10 There he kept it with his breath subdued, and the alarum severely quelled.
11 And that was when every alarum in the world went off at once.
12 Such a preface is ringing an alarum bell for an author.
13 One London firm is advertising thirty thousand alarum - clocks for sale at reduced prices.
14 His mouth opened to shout an alarum , but nothing came out.
15 Every man was on his feet, the place in alarum .
16 But scarcely anything less than the wild alarum of a tocsin will frighten him.
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