larum
Americannoun
noun
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He has a tremendous larum at his bed's head, and turns out every day at five o'clock in imitation of Paley.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832 by Various
The larum of his bell was ne'er so shrill As was her tongue, aye, clacking like a mill.
From Quaint Epitaphs by Various
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 Sir Walter Scott
My conjectures were interrupted by a loud larum at the house-door, which announced the return of my young host.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
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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