Alarum Bell

Suddenly the sharp wild clangor of the great alarum-bell of Famagosta crashed through the silence. ❋ Lawrence Turnbull (N/A)

Even in these more prosaic days the custom of keeping watch and ward unceasingly is still maintained, and if there is a fire, the alarum-bell clangs over the city. ❋ Am��d��e Forestier (1887)

The death of a man like Dryden, especially in narrow and neglected circumstances, is usually an alarum-bell to the public. ❋ Scott, Walter, Sir (1882)

Fear was never meant to be permanent, it is only the alarum-bell which rings to wake up the soul that sleeps on when in mortal peril. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

So numerous were the hands employed in these preparations, that about one o'clock the alarum-bell gave three great tolls, and then silence fell. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

No citizen can lie down secure that he shall not be roused by the alarum-bell, to repel or avenge an injury. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

It was as loud as an alarum-bell, and when rung, was to be heard from Number 12 to Number 44, in the street where Dr Plausible resided. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)