larum

• “His invention has not made so much noise and larum in the world as some others, which have an origin quite as humble and unromantic; but it is one to which we owe no small profit, and a great deal of pleasure; and, as such, we are bound to speak of it with all gratitude and respect.”

  The Paris Sketch Book

• “Our board was full of words like larum and girn and ghat and revet.”

  Simon & Schuster: VANISHING ACTS

• “Is it not possible that _larum_ and _Lärm_ are imitations of the stroke and subsequent resonance of a large bell?”

  Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850

• “He has a tremendous larum at his bed's head, and turns out every day at five o'clock in imitation of Paley.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832

• “The spry rattle had run on in the same vein of mimicry but for some larum in the antechamber.”

  Ulysses

• “As we went, we heard the continually renewed larum of a landrail in the long grass.”

  Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

• “Everything feeds his suspicions; he is "dwelling in a continual 'larum of jealousy.”

  Primitive Love and Love-Stories

• “And ring a sharp 'larum; -- but, if you should look, 10”

  ADDRESS TO A CHILD DURING A BOISTEROUS WINTER EVENING BY MY SISTER

• “Then all the clocks are wrong, sir, including my larum-scarum, for I set it for half-past five, so as to be up early and try 'em on.”

  Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy

• “Vi'let says they had a larum every hour that set their hearts a beatin 'like a drum.”

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