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As he left Kingsway behind, the gross belch of an 'Alarum' demanded passage.
Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922
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Phlegm of Divers Alarum-Inducing Colours from nose and throat, slight soreness, slight headache, but not really Sick.
April 4th, 2009 yuki_onna 2009
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Machines, and the Alarum of popular Applause must run off, as she is pleas'd to turn the Key of our Affairs:
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Machines, and the Alarum of popular Applause must run off, as she is pleas'd to turn the Key of our Affairs:
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Alarum pennae continent in longitudine 12. passus, elephantem in sublime tollere potest.
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Alarum: Linda would go to the mainland with his grandson.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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As the Trophies of _Miltiades_ would not suffer _Themistocles_ to sleep; so the Atchievements of his two younger brethren gave an Alarum unto his spirit.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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[Footnote 13: Schenectady.] [Footnote 14: Alarum, or alarm.]
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes Abraham Tomlinson
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Greene's "Arcadia" was published in 1587, and bears in its fanciful title of "Camilla's Alarum to Slumber Euphues," the evidence of its inspiration.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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And albeit he went as couertly as might be, yet the enemie taking the _Alarum_, grevv fearefull that the whole Force was approching to the assault, and therefore vvith all speede abandoned the place after the shooting of some of their peeces.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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