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Examples

  • Altho the floof up the nose is alarmin if yu are nawt preparded fur it.

    I read sum wares dat drinkin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • "But the munuster was no for alarmin 'the bodies," said Clara.

    Samuel 1914

  • No hurry about 'em, but a most alarmin 'regularity.

    Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

  • He was some subject to widows -- most widower men are, I guess -- but he didn't develop no alarmin 'symptoms in this case and never even hinted that he'd like to see his old girl.

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • 'I felt it comin' on last night but I didn't say annything f'r fear iv alarmin 'me wife, so I simply groaned,' says ye.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Gov'nor requests th 'Sheriff, th' Sheriff speaks to th 'Mayor, th' Mayor desires th 'Chief iv Polis, th' Chief iv Polis ordhers th 'polisman on th' beat, an 'th' polisman on th 'beat commands me to take me alarmin' visage out iv th 'public view.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Old George Washington's Fort was not to hev eny public man of the present day resemble him to eny alarmin extent.

    Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Thomas L. Masson 1900

  • Ye would not have consuls remembern 'the Guidin' Light, an 'the Shah-in-Shah, an' the Aglaia, at this most alarmin 'crisis.

    The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Throughout is swarmin 'with the most alarmin' kind o 'varmin'.

    Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900

  • "But the munuster was no for alarmin 'the bodies," said Clara.

    The Strength of the Strong Jack London 1896

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