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  • Aye Sir, a death-watch, a certain Larum death-watch, a thing that has warn'd our Family this hundred years, oh — I'me the most undone

    Sir Patient Fancy 1678

  • Sorry … Johnny Flynn’s (another musician in that same circle of people) album A Larum is fantastic!

    Twilight Lexicon » Sam Bradley Interview 2008

  • Two of my favorites from the webzine are "Crow" by Stephanie Burgis and "The Great Deeds of Payven Larum" by Rod M.

    The Town Drunk 2007

  • Pais, I may remark in passing, is certain that Acca Larentia was the mater Larum; see his

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • John Davenport of New Haven, who died in 1670, left a clock to his heirs; and E. Needham, who died in 1677, left a "Striking clock, a watch, and a Larum that dus not Strike," worth £5; these are perhaps the first records of the ownership of clocks and watches in New E.gland.

    Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • Unquestionably it was so; not less unworthy than _A Larum for London_ of Marlowe's.

    A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • As his rough "Larum gardum quantitere runze punze ke hi voi la" now reached the little ones, the impression was far deeper than he had intended, for the cellar man's youngest son, a little fellow six years old, first shrieked aloud, and, when the terrible old man's long arms barred his way, he began to cry piteously.

    Barbara Blomberg — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • As his rough "Larum gardum quantitere runze punze ke hi voi la" now reached the little ones, the impression was far deeper than he had intended, for the cellar man's youngest son, a little fellow six years old, first shrieked aloud, and, when the terrible old man's long arms barred his way, he began to cry piteously.

    Barbara Blomberg — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

  • As his rough "Larum gardum quantitere runze punze ke hi voi la" now reached the little ones, the impression was far deeper than he had intended, for the cellar man's youngest son, a little fellow six years old, first shrieked aloud, and, when the terrible old man's long arms barred his way, he began to cry piteously.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • She had often an Inclination to interrupt him, but could find no Opportunity, 'till the Larum ceased of its self; which it did not' till he had repeated and murdered the celebrated

    Spectator, March 13, 1711 1711

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