State of (sudden) fear

Usage examples of alarm.

Jayme has read your reports and listened to the news from the north of Achar with growing alarm.

I could tell by the quality of her alarm, which was actressy and overdone.

His hand slapped the panic button, sounding an alarm throughout the admin building.

Barbarian chiefs, alarmed and admonished by the fate of their companions, prepared to encounter, in a decisive battle, the victorious forces of the lieutenant of Valentinian.

Though it may seem to the reader that some time has elapsed since the first sounding of the alarm, all that I have set down took place in a very short period--hardly three minutes elapsing since Tom and the others came rushing out of the aerial warship building.

Alarm changed to resignation, and more and more Doc Daneeka acquired the look of an ailing rodent.

All these reports were alarming, and especially that of General Bon, in which no reserve was made.

All they unanimously desire is to put an end to the system of aggrandisement which your Emperor has established and acts upon with such alarming rapidity.

Two Dutch soldiers were shot for striking their officers, but notwithstanding this severity desertion among the troops increased to an alarming degree.

This letter, it is true, was written previously to the interview at Erfurt, when Napoleon, to avoid alarming Russia, made his ambition appear to slumber.

At the same time I sent to Schill a clever spy, who gave him a most alarming account of the means of defence which Hamburg possessed.

The difficulty of procuring provisions was extreme, and the means he was compelled to employ for that purpose greatly heightened the evil, at the same time insubordination and want of discipline prevailed to such an alarming degree that it would be as difficult as painful to depict the situation of our army at this period, Marmont, by his steady conduct, fortunately succeeded in correcting the disorders which prevailed, and very soon found himself at the head of a well-organised army, amounting to 30,000 infantry, with forty pieces of artillery, but he had only a very small body of cavalry, and those ill-mounted.

Paris divided in opinion, and to hear the alarming cries raised by the confederates of the Faubourgs when the King was already at St.

The Admiral, who had previously amused himself by giving an alarming description of this ceremony, now very courteously exempted his guests from the inconvenience and ridicule attending it.

On the 2d he was rather quieter, and the alarming symptoms diminished a little.