She lived alone, except for the companionship of Bridget, and it was asking a good deal of a timid and shrinking nature like Miss Slopham's to take into her little household a gentleman who rolled his eyes in such an alarming manner.
The rehearsal was more alarmingto her than the thought of the evening performance.
Asbury, suspecting they were rustlers, sent three of his men out beyond them on foot, and they did their part so well that they came up without alarming either of their horses, who ordinarily would have detected them.
Wal, I'm sorry to say that he has been hurt worse than Fred," was the alarming response, accompanied by a deep sigh.
I considered it quite an alarming expression, and said so; but that made no impression on him, for he proceeded with a string of wonderfully conceived questions that must have covered my life from birth to the present time.
At sight of you I thought it had proved to be something alarmingand that they had sent for you.
Alarming Growth of the Divorce Evil," by the well-known writer, Rev.
I saw my charmer among them, and, as she looked up from the book she was reading, and shot at me a mischievous glance from those thrilling eyes, I felt my coolness melting at the most alarming rate.
There again was another pause, but no sound more alarmingthan the noise of shifting cars and engines.
My anxiety about Mr. Lincoln that evening grew out of a report of an alarming character made to me by one of my detectives.
Only a word here and there was distinct; but it was plain from the Virginian's fewer remarks that the sin in his belly was alarming him less.
But the most alarming version of all was that a rustler was a cattle thief.
And when he stopped she could hear, alarming in the sudden silence, the precipitated beating of her heart.
He and the chief mate started a dialogue about the alarming change in the captain, the sallow steward looking down with a sinister frown, Franklin rolling upwards his eyes, sentimental in a red face.
You may imagine then the force of the shock in the intuitive perception not merely of danger, for she did not know what was alarming her, but in the sense of the security being gone.
Thus, that fellow, who had unexpectedly received a most alarming straight tip from somebody in the City arrived in Brighton, at about lunch-time, with something very much in the nature of a deadly bomb in his possession.
I don't know that I am liable to fits of delirium but by a sudden and alarming aberration while waiting for her answer I became mentally aware of three trained dogs dancing on their hind legs.
Every argument was used to convince him that no dependence is to be put in dreams, but without shaking his belief, and as the hour approached, he exhibited the alarming signs of death.
This alarming remedy produced the desired effect; their imagination was overpowered by the force of fear, and not a case of the kind again occurred.
This alarming vision his lordship related, at breakfast the next morning, to several women who were his companions.
Had I been fanatic or superstitious, I should have been terrified at my own phantasms, and probably might have been seized with somealarming disorder.
The following case is suggestive of the alarming extent and persistence that may attend one of those hæmorrhagic cases, even when recovery eventually takes place.
The alarming frequency with which mobs began to appeal to violence to compel attention to their grievances, real or supposed, by force of arms, was one of the most dangerous symptoms of the age.
Several Bosche shells came unpleasantly near, shaking my rickety shelter in an alarming manner.
Your habit of stooping and bringing your shoulders forward on to your breast not only disfigures you, but is alarming on account of the injury to your health.
The necessity of laudanum twice a day is a very disagreeable andalarming circumstance.
I tremble at every noise: new apprehensions are ever alarming me.
You seem to have emerged from your lethargy, which, I must confess, was obvious to an alarming degree in several preceding letters.
On my return to Blackwater Park (with the letter of invitation) I found that the doctor's imbecile treatment of Marian's case had led to the most alarming results.
Before midnight Sir Percival's strange temper broke out in the most violent and most alarming manner, and if the gardener had not been on the spot to pacify him on the instant, I am afraid to think what might have happened.
The Count, with the mostalarming solemnity, sighed and shook his head.
I entered the room again as soon as they had left it, and at once precipitated events by a reference of the alarming kind to "Miss Halcombe's" state of health.
For my own part, I shrink from the idea of alarming the poor creature a second time, as I have most unhappily alarmed her already.
That difficulty is greatly increased in my case by the alarming and confusing events which took place about the period of Lady Glyde's departure.
Contrast this with thealarming stupor of sunstroke.
Notwithstanding the severe and apparently alarming nature of the symptoms, the prognosis of gastralgia is in the main favorable, although the prospect of a permanent and speedy cure is small.
The severity of attacks of colic varies from a few slight griping pains felt at intervals to a seizure of such intensity that the patient suffers agony and presents symptoms of an alarming nature.
These hemorrhages may be insignificant, or may at once assume alarming proportions, and even bring to an unexpected termination the life of the individual.
The cancerous is more likely to be attended by alarming accidents, like the complete obstruction of the bowels, large hemorrhages, and a sudden lighting up of acute peritonitis.
For adults, morphia hypodermically is perhaps the best remedy for the vomiting and purging; even for children, minute doses given in this way are best for alarming illness.
In the worst cases of sudden alarming hemorrhage the physician should not fail to practise the transfusion of blood or solutions of salt or soda.
After the alarming symptoms occurred we tried to procure another specimen of the urine for fuller examination, but {1151} could not.
Sometimes the child may sleep with its eyes half open, the eyeballs directed upward, and only the white sclerotic to be seen through the gap between the lids, "producing an appearance which is unnatural and alarming to the laity.
His success in Episode X is a rather alarming accident.
One morning in the latter part of August he received a letter advising him that his uncle had had an alarming stroke of apoplexy.
Lynde drew an alarming augury from the circumstance that Mrs. Denham did not come down to greet them.
This would be alarming if it went on much longer; the day approached, the great day, the day of fate, and what hope was there for a violinist who could not steady her hand?
In view of the immediate stoppage of business, it was pretty safe to surmise that alarming disclosures awaited the public.
The little ditty I have quoted must have been very quieting to good children in those alarming times.
The old woman ran after the saints and told her alarming story.
Mr. Parker, the scientist, who held to hisalarming theory regarding the ultimate disappearance of the island.
Yet it was alarming to know that one was speeding over the mighty ocean, before a terrific gale, with nothing more substantial under one that a comparatively frail airship.
Every morning was appearing on the bulletin board the alarming news transmitted by radiograph.
This silence, of late, had persisted in an alarming manner, in spite of the fact that the ranch was no longer receiving visitors.
Don Marcelo returned home, grinding his teeth and waving his cane in an alarming manner.
The excitement in the city increased to an alarming degree.
But Manchon leaped up again, and began smelling near the fatal pocket in a most alarming manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alarming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
