My feelings render hers more acute, and the very precautions which I take, however delicate, alarm and wound her pride, by reminding her of all she wishes to forget.
He began to ask her questions very gently as if he did not wish to alarmor disturb her.
She is a sensitive child," she said, "and I have not wanted to alarm her by telling her she must give up the work her heart is in.
Speaking of dynamite," it said, "we have serious cause foralarm in our free land.
Our journey continued without much to alarm us, until we were just about to commit ourselves to the wide arm of the Dniepr, that still lay between us and the town.
But after many inquiries we were satisfied that the alarm was groundless, and we did not delay our preparations to depart.
But the alarm had been already given, and the whole population, suddenly aroused out of their sleep, were ready for the fight.
Yet the impression made on me by this first day did not tend much to alarm me at the prospect of wandering, like a veritable Kalmuck, for several weeks across the steppe.
When I reached the summit of the hill an involuntary cry of surprise and alarm escaped me.
The cause of this nocturnal alarm was the imprudence of a servant who had closed the stove before all the kirbitch was consumed; this was quite enough to make the atmosphere deadly.
Our unconcern began to alarm the clerk; gangs of horses were every moment returning from pasture, and he saw plainly that his position was becoming critical.
These two master passions of alarm and despair have brought the unfortunate portions of mankind to the foot of the Cross.
In any human book the paternal exaction of such suffering as fell to Christ, would be regarded with alarm and repugnance.
Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth.
Charley was almost exhausted by fatigue and anxiety, when his father's man guided him within sight of home, and told him to go to his mother, while he returned to give thealarm to Uncle George.
Great was their alarm when the inmates of the house told them they had not seen the little boy.
I do it in the hope of preventing any alarm which an incorrect report of the following circumstance might cause you.
The alarm was given, and in a moment everything was in confusion.
But alarm vanished the moment she ushered herself into the man's presence.
He's driving his great purpose with all his force through the agency of a groundwood mill that would fill your Skandinavia folk with envy and alarm if they saw it.
For the Government to alter the King's plans would be to alarm the populace, demoralise the services, and to add to the unhappy excitement which it is the object of the festival allay.
But I did it," the young prisoner had said again and again with steadfast fervour, only deepening to alarm when evidence concerning the revolver seemed to endanger the absent man.
Our alarmnow was lest we should get within the clutches of this fell swoop, for the port once past, it would have required us weeks to bear up again, whilst this wind lasted.
The raw levies of Shedmah and Hhaha continued to enter the town, but only a small number at a time, lest they should alarm the inhabitants.
There was nothing to alarm me save my own eagerness.
In the meantime, after the lesson I had received as to the nature of money, I saw with somealarm my father preparing to dig a great pit for it.
In a minute we had an alarm sounding, my father was among us, there was a mad play of chatter, and we stood in the strangest nightmare-light that ever ended an interview of lovers.
And it was now tempered by a fit of alarm that I renewed my search.
Julia Rippenger was a guest at Riversley through a visit paid to her by my aunt Dorothy in alarm at my absence.
My alarm at having left the savoury street of shops was not soothed until I found myself sitting at table with him, and a nice young lady, and an old one who wore a cap, and made loud remarks on my garments and everything I did.
I quieted his alarmby talking currently and easily.
As he remarked, the ringing of the bell would not of itself have forced her to retreat, and the nature of the baroness's alarm demanded nothing less than a conflagration to account for it to the household.
Schwartz had borne himself with extraordinary discretion by forbearing to spread alarm at the palace.
The Pokes in the garden had recovered from their first alarm and were following at a safe distance.
At this interesting juncture the Cowardly Lion gave a tremendous yawn, and Sir Hokus with an exclamation of alarm jumped to his feet.
About fifty thousand people died of the disease in that city, and great alarm was felt in London lest the infection should reach England.
The alarm was great in the house, as any one may suppose, they having been free from the distemper till that disaster, which, bringing the infection to the house, spread it immediately to other houses round about it.
He expressed great alarmat his pastor's state of health, but was anxious to attempt the cure, and, if early undertaken, seemed not despondent of a favourable result.
There, if you discern the slightest ideas of doubt, blame, or displeasure; if you discover the slightest symptoms of revolt, take the alarm instantly.
When the alarm of fire reached Trevlyn Farm, its inmates had hastened to the scene with one accord, leaving none in the house but Nora and Mrs. Ryle.
Well, it appears that only you, so far as can be learnt, saw Jim Sanders at all near the spot after the alarm went out.
He knew that courtesy was at all times wise, and useful, and an obligation amongst men; but his anger was stronger than his prudence and his vague alarm was yet stronger still.
Disquietude and offence took alarm in him at once.
Disorders, even insurrections, do not greatly alarm authority nowadays; they are easily pressed since the invention of the quick-firing guns.
Nerina came in from the fowl-house with alarmon her face.
If the storm should alarm the monks, and any one come out, we can say we are frightened too.
Antony, from the deck of the flag-ship, could see the sudden surprise and alarmon the faces of the pirate crew.
The rowers paddled faster, glancing back over their shoulders to see if thealarm was true.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alarm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
