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Example sentences for "alarums"

Lexicographically close words:
alarmingly; alarmist; alarmists; alarms; alarum; alary; alas; alata; alay; albacore
  1. This is what Agate does in Alarums and Excursions.

  2. That new book is called Alarums and Excursions.

  3. But on the night of March 29th, after many "alarums and excursions," our two flank companies and the Brigade north of the Lys let off their gas, while projectors were flung into Frelinghien at the same time.

  4. All this time the Quartermaster was busy collecting revolvers, knobkerries, torches, and all the other minor but necessary articles of equipment, and many were the alarums and excursions.

  5. But on my far-off solitude No harsh alarums can intrude; The terror comes to me subdued And charmed by distance, To deepen the habitual mood Of my existence.

  6. The stage direction "alarums and chambers go off" occurs more than once in "King Henry V.

  7. But the battles of the stage were still fought on; "alarums and excursions" continued to engage the scene.

  8. Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds, Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors.

  9. Fire [all] the beacons, strike alarums loud: Raise all the country 'gainst this common foe.

  10. Come, fellow-bards, and sing with cheer; Since dreadful alarums we shall no more hear.

  11. I baulk your greatness: for as good, not great, I homage pay, and loves alarums beat.

  12. What if alarums sounded be, And we must face our enemy, If cannons bellow out a death, Or trumpets woo away our breath!

  13. In Which the Phoenix's Plan Is Carried Out, and There Are More Alarums and Excursions in the Night 99 8.

  14. In Which the Scientist Arrives in Pursuit of the Phoenix, and There Are Alarums and Excursions by Night 61 6.

  15. The alarums burred cheerily on for about twenty minutes, after which, by Mademoiselle's instructions, they were replaced in the monitresses' bedrooms by Hermie.

  16. Exactly at the half-hour five alarums started punctually inside the cupboard, raising such a din that it was impossible to hear a word.

  17. Twas time (I trow) to wake and leaue our beds, Hearing Alarums at our Chamber doores Alan.

  18. Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds, Hearing alarums at our chamber doors.

  19. No trumpet stung The air to madness, and no steeple flung Alarums down from bells at midnight rung.

  20. Deep down in Carrissima's mind, perhaps, was an idea that Bridget might prove capable of an intervention as auspicious as her previous alarums and excursions had been unfortunate.

  21. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alarums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.