larum

Historical Examples

• Do you wind me like a larum, only to rouse my own stilled soul for your diversion?

  The Comedies of William Congreve

  William Congreve

• She had a striking clock, another watch, and a "larum that does not strike."

  The Old Furniture Book

  N. Hudson Moore

• We sung, hooped, hallowd, jubilled—set the cennell of hounds all in a larum.

  Brief Lives (Vol. 2 of 2)

  John Aubrey

• The spry rattle had run on in the same vein of mimicry but for some larum in the antechamber.

  Ulysses

  James Joyce

• Page 60, sixth line from bottom, for S. Bonaventura read the dem Larum.

  Rambles in Rome

  S. Russell Forbes