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Example sentences for "great alarm"

  • Nevertheless, Collingham, a man not easily frightened, reined up his steed, and listened in great alarm.

  • On my return one day, I found my people in great alarm, the Phipun having sent word that we were on the Tibet side of the rivers, and that Tibetan troops were coming to plunder my goods, and carry my men into slavery.

  • In this instance the driver in great alarm ordered me off, and I had to flounder out through the black mud.

  • Pen cried out, in a state of great alarm.

  • He blushed more than ever at seeing them, and seizing the one whom he had nearly upset, jumped her up into the air, and kissed her: at which sudden assault Ameliar-Ann began to cry in great alarm.

  • A boarding officer was sent on her, and returned, giving an account of great alarm, especially among the ladies.

  • The king of the Arabs near Petra, who had hitherto despised the power of the Romans, now began to be in great alarm at it, and sent letters to him promising to be at his commands, and to do whatever he should see fit to order.

  • William was in great alarm, for he was much afraid of the king's power; and he also formed his men into two companies.

  • At Saint Bricun de Valmerei[7], mass was sung before the king on the day of that battle, and the clerks were in great alarm.

  • Lanyard, in great alarm; for several dropping shots now rattled in the direction of the boats.

  • The moment the musket was discharged, the canoe backed into the fog again, but we could plainly hear the splash and whiz of a number of paddles rapidly plied, as if in great alarm.

  • Polly, in great alarm, and springing out from the group, she ran up to seize his arm.

  • His sudden appearance in the middle of Greece caused a great alarm, not only in the neighbouring states, but also caused alarming intelligence to be brought into Asia to king Eumenes.

  • And it was in or about that time, not finding Jesus in the cottage, they came down the pathway in great alarm, to be brought to a sudden stop by the sight of Jesus sitting under the cedars.

  • This murder, taken in connection with the assemblage of the Indians under Tecumseh and the Prophet, created a great alarm on the frontier, and actually induced many families to remove back to Kentucky, from whence they had emigrated.

  • Both territories were in a state of great alarm; and the Secretary of War was officially notified, that if the general government did not take measures to protect the inhabitants, they were determined to protect themselves.

  • The party had scarcely encamped on the afternoon of the 28th, when two of the hunters who had sallied forth in quest of game came galloping back in great alarm.

  • While in this plight, a troop of Buffalo came trotting by in great alarm.

  • Mother, (here she turned to her mother, who was in a state of great alarm,) how many new religions has father invented?

  • In great alarm he inquired of the people who lived near as to her whereabouts; no one, however, knew; and it being already late he returned disconsolately to his boat.

  • General Mao has come," cried the boatmen, in great alarm; and they and all the passengers on board fell down on their faces.

  • In great alarm he called out to the servant, who also got up, and then they found a hole with a rill of water trickling down before it.

  • In great alarm A-pao untied the string, but the parrot did not fly away.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great calm; great centre; great delight; great depths; great distances; great friend; great honor; great idea; great importance; great iron; great joy; great longing; great master; great military; great musician; great pressure; great secret; great start; great stir; great store; great towns; great train; great wrath; greater number; greater share; greatest happiness