Alarms
[ə'lɑ:mz]
Examples
- That is what alarms me so much. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Such fire alarms can be exchanged automatically, or by operators, and are sometimes associated with a large fire-alarm bell or whistle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She knows what our real objects are, and she don't have any more alarms or suspicions about us, than if we was so many lambs. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Among the latest inventions are electrical connections with the safe, whereby tampering therewith alarms one or more watchmen at a near station. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Woodhouse talked over his alarms, and Emma was in spirits to persuade them away with all her usual promptitude. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The unusual nature of the demand on my judgment puzzled me, especially following the alarms of the night. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typed by Gwendolyn