They spoke of going about their regular pursuits, there was work that could be done on the outside in the twilight, and enough time had been lost already through a false alarm.
Wyatt might have ground for his suspicion, but why should Henry Ware sound a false alarm?
In this black darkness their fears became real; there was no false alarm, the forest around them hid their enemy, but only for the time.
More than once the deep roll of the drum roused the country, only to discover that it was a false alarm.
My father reported a false alarm, originating in the overwrought imagination of settlers on the exposed margin of the valley.
Jumping over a log behind the cabin they stopped to listen and finally thinking it a false alarm, laid down their guns, etc.
We came round, and picked up these two brave fellows, and were ready for a search, but, thank heaven, it was a false alarm.
I'm sorry I disturbed you in the night, but it was no false alarm.
It is as well to be prepared, although I believe that, after all, it will prove a false alarm.
So long a time elapsed that he began to fancy that the sentries had given a false alarm, and he was on the point of despatching a party down to the nearest landing-place, when he caught sight of a body of men emerging from the gloom.
Nothing else could be elicited from Martha, but she persisted in declaring that they would find ere long that she had given no false alarm.
I guess it's going to turn out a false alarm," Russ observed, as he shifted the weight of his camera.
At the words "false alarm," a smile played over Cuchillo's features.
He had seen Cuchillo suddenly appear, he had imagined the part he would be required to fulfil, he heard the bandit's cry of false alarm, and even the bloody catastrophe of the drama had not been unseen by him.
False alarm, 'Pollo," said Oakum, leading the way back.
Nothing will be done, of course, until all the lights are out, and then we shall soon find out whether all this is a false alarm or not.
If she laughs at me, then I shall feel pretty sure that mine was all a false alarm.
But after all, fellows," Thad told his followers, "this may be a false alarm.
So they watched it anxiously, and every time it missed an explosion Bumpus would utter a grunt or a groan; only to catch new inspiration and hope when he found that it was a false alarm, and that they were still going right along.
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