larum

How to use larum in a sentence

• My conjectures were interrupted by a loud larum at the house-door, which announced the return of my young host.

  Discipline | Mary Brunton

• This morning about seven oclock we had a larum that the Regulars were gone to Concord.

  The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume I (of 2) | Hazard Stevens

• The ‘larum of his bell was ne’er sae shrill As was her tongue, aye clacking like a mill.

  Gleanings in Graveyards | Horatio Edward Norfolk

• The clock which stood upon the mantel had sounded twice the customary larum, but had not been heard by us.

  Arthur Mervyn | Charles Brockden Brown

• Of these we read in Shakespeare's works—of the "'larum bell and of sweet bells jangled out of tune."

  Chats on Old Copper and Brass | Fred. W. Burgess