alarm

• You might ask the salesperson from the patrol company to send his nearest guard to your house right now, as if the alarm were activating at this very moment. —  Fuck Alarms
• One trigger for the alarm is the rapidly declining value of sterling; however, financial journalist Nils Pratley says there's no real cause for panic just yet. —  The Bankruptcy Blog
• The occasion of the alarm was a body of Federal cavalry which had been sent on a raid to meet Hunter's army, advancing on Lynchburg After two days in this quiet abode I set out to make my way past the rear of Hunter's army and eventually to reach home. —  The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
• And while he's got to go back to where the law has sent him, we're going to give him a decent breakfast first When a little later they heard the stamp of the Colonel's crutch the boys looked up expectantly, knowing they would have the laugh on the old veteran traveler, who had flown to the rescue when the alarm was all a farce, and slept through the real thing What's all this? —  The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck
• No doubt a few who might have given the alarm were afraid to do so. —  The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers

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