Alarming

Examples

• The girl's state was, to my thinking, downright alarming--and my mistress ought to be informed of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There is nothing very alarming in his appearance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Earnestness in you, is anything but alarming to me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• With almost every other man in the world, it would be an alarming prospect; but Edward's affection and constancy nothing can deprive me of I know. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But France was pursuing a very dangerous and alarming game, a game even more dangerous and alarming on the map than in reality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those clouds look alarming. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Embarking would be easy, but the vision of open sea that might come after was alarming. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This last manifestation as by far the most alarming, by reason of its threatening his prolonged stay on the premises, necessitated vigorous measures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Here, Mr Sloppy opening his mouth to a quite alarming extent, and throwing back his head to peal again, revealed incalculable buttons. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• How alarming these movements must have been to every intelligent Japanese a glance at the map will show. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I had become aware of an alarming growling overhead, and had probably expressed the fact in my countenance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But that very circumstance would be alarming, when we remember how identified he is with his son-in-law. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Is the lady so very alarming? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There was consumption in my father's family, two of his brothers having died of that disease, which made my symptoms more alarming. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This matter is growing alarming,' reasoned Mr. Pickwick with himself. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Do you know it was some time before I recovered the conduct of that alarming lady, on the night of your birth, Mr. Copperfield? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Gridley, a disappointed suitor, has been here to-day and has been alarming. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That is a more alarming person than the clerk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It clanged out presently, with irregular but loud and alarming din. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• 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. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Settlers, too, came from distant counties, some with an alarming novelty of skill, others with an offensive advantage in cunning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But, my dear Bella, this is quite alarming at your age. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Don't be frightened,' called out the old host, fearful of alarming his daughters. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Perhaps, gentlemen, as my uncle used to say with a smile, perhaps he was afraid of alarming the lady. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Pleasant is it to have the gift to proceed peacefully and powerfully in your course without alarming by one eccentric movement. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• 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. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Count, with the most alarming solemnity, sighed and shook his head. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If _you_ don't feel when your only child is in this alarming state, I do. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I refrained from alarming the house, and telling everybody what had happened--as I ought to have done. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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