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 Howitt, William
As we went, we heard the continually renewed larum of a landrail in the long grass.
From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by MacDonald, George
On your own shores war’s larum broke: What turned to gall even kindred blood?
From An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City by Sprague, Charles
The spry rattle had run on in the same vein of mimicry but for some larum in the antechamber.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Strike by yourself, sweet larum; you're true bell-metal I warrant you.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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