alarum
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Greene's "Arcadia" was published in 1587, and bears in its fanciful title of "Camilla's Alarum to Slumber Euphues," the evidence of its inspiration.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard
As the Trophies of Miltiades would not suffer Themistocles to sleep; so the Atchievements of his two younger brethren gave an Alarum unto his spirit.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
Alarum, al-�r′um, n. and v.t. same as Alarm—now used, except poetically, only of an alarum-clock.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Nigher still and nigher Seem the tones of the "Alarum bell" borne on the air!
From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas
I had rather haue one scratch my Head i'th' Sun, When the Alarum were strucke, then idly sit To heare my Nothings monster'd.
From Coriolanus by Shakespeare, William
Vocabulary lists containing alarum
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 1
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