alarm-bells

But it was more than just the atmosphere which set alarm-bells ringing.

Court Out « A Fly in Amber 2010

Analysts are increasingly convinced that the Fed will not sound any alarm-bells about rising prices in its monetary policy decision Wednesday afternoon—either by the Federal Open Market Committee's statement, or via Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's first-ever post-policy meeting news conference.

Dollar Slides Near 2½-Year Lows Javier E. David 2011

The clash of swords and roar of voices, the dust and heat and pressure, the trampling under foot of men, the distracted looks and shrieks of women at the windows above as they recognised their relatives or lovers in the crowd, the rapid tolling of alarm-bells, the furious rage and passion of the scene, were fearful.

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

The clash of swords and roar of voices, the dust and heat and pressure, the trampling under foot of men, the distracted looks and shrieks of women at the windows above as they recognised their relatives or lovers in the crowd, the rapid tolling of alarm-bells, the furious rage and passion of the scene, were fearful.

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

It was known that an _émeute_ was expected, therefore I was not surprised, one evening early in November, to hear the alarm-bells ringing in all directions throughout the city.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

There she sat, in the middle of a broken patch of pungent onions, as the neighbor's slaves and family boiled out of the house, the night rang with shouts and alarm-bells, and the sky turned as red as blood.

If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

But the Spaniards were exceedingly well prepared; the alarm-bells answered the huzza, and a fire of thirty or forty pieces of cannon, with musketry from one end of the town to the other, opened upon the invaders.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

It began when I was halfway across: the distant clamour of alarm-bells, voices and the cry of dogs.

The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

Immediately every hand was at work; chains were drawn across the streets, the alarm-bells were sounded, and every man repaired to his post, according to the orders he had received, whether it was to attack the

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

What are you fastening doors and ringing alarm-bells for, as if there were more thieves than honest men in the land?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various