larum
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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They stand still when the rattle is most needed, and make a terrible larum when, on account of the high wind, the sparrows don't come.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
With rolled r, alarm becomes alarum, whence the aphetic larum— "Then we shall hear their larum, and they ours."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
But as soon as the copy began, down it went like a larum, incessantly; and the reader was sure to be out of breath before he got to the end of it.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Is it not possible that larum and Lärm are imitations of the stroke and subsequent resonance of a large bell?
From Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 by Various
The thunder crashed across the heaven, The fatal hour was come; Yet aye broke in, with muffled beat, The larum of the drum.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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