alarum
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When four days passed without sign of the boat Mrs. Minevitch set up an alarum.
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Thus was the alarum sounded for more spit, less polish.
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Disturbed by the man’s alarum, we looked up from our labor and found a detachment of Redcoats running in formation for the gates.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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An. castaneo-rufa, capite abdomineque medio saturatiorbus; notis dorsi, remigibus, caud� supra, crissoque nigris; ptilis c�ruleis, pteromatibus albis, speculo alarum viridi.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
I have said nothing of how it may be pleased, of its pride, for instance, in being referred to as an "alarum clock."
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 1
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