"Larum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chapters for the day, In —— Cleopatra, or the last new play. Thus gloomy Zara, with a solemn grace, Deceives mankind, and hides behind her face. Nor far beneath her in renown, is she, Who, through good breeding, is ill company; Whose manners will not let her larum cease, Who thinks you are unhappy, when at peace; To find you news, who racks her subtle head, And vows—that her great-grandfather is dead. A dearth of words a woman need not fear, But 'tis a task indeed to ...
— The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 • Edward Young
... Liberty shall soon, indignant, raise Red on the hills his beacon's comet blaze; Bid from on high his lonely cannon sound, And on ten thousand hearths his shout rebound; His larum-bell from village-tower to tower Swing on the astounded ear its dull ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight
... play'd, Bore off the nicest of the brood,— As many pullets as he could,— And left the rest, all prostrate laid. The owner found his sole resource His servants and his dog to curse. 'You useless puppy, better drown'd! Why did you not your 'larum sound?' 'Why did you not the evil shun,' Quoth Towser, 'as you might have done? If you, whose interest was more, Could sleep and leave an open door, Think you that I, a dog at best, Would watch, and lose my precious rest?' This pithy speech had ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine |
