What is "claxon"

Usage examples of "claxon".

The only servant present, in fact the only one visible on the premises, was Claxon, an old retainer who had been sent ahead to open the house.

Right now, Treat was checking things for Senora Hidalgo and Claxon, both of whom wished they were back in Colombia and would soon be part way there.

Then Treat turned and introduced Claxon, the old servitor who was slated for a trip to Havana with Senora Hidalgo, the duenna.

Looking down, she saw old Claxon coming through the lower hall, past the bottom of the very stairs where Jerry had gone.

Only a stoop-shouldered old servant, Claxon, and a squatty lady, Senora Hidalgo, came from the big door and down the steps to the waiting car.

You shipped Claxon and Senora Hidalgo, thus getting everyone away who could possibly identify Brenda Van Dolphe.

THIRTY-FOUR The hull-breach claxon blared as Mon Mothma closed with the pursuing Yuuzhan Vong fleet.

Ria stiffened suddenly, overwhelmed by a roar of noiseless sound, a silent inner claxon as every magical warning went off simultaneously in her mind.

Still, to the senses of the Waterborn, or of a priest, it must have seemed as if a fire had burned briefly or a claxon sounded.

There STAR TREK LOG THRBE 55 was a peculiar cadence to the claxon, one he ought to recognize.

The claxon rang violent summons into the air, barely heard over the earsplitting thunder as hundreds of dragons ap- peared, ranging in full fighting array, wing upon wing, up and down.

Faintly he heard the claxon bell on Telgar Hold Tower as the unexpected dragon strength was acclaimed from the ground.

STELA went nuts, the alarm claxons screeching, the monitors saying there were fires all over the ship, and hull breaches on the cargo hold and three subdecks below it.

Had she offered a protest, it would have been drowned out by the sudden screech of security claxons around them.

They were less than a minute from the cell block when the alarm claxons sounded.