Moreover, the experience of every man teaches him that each method has its own impressiveness: the announcement of punishment awes, and a surprise alarms, and when they are alternated, every possible door of access to the conscience is approached.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Our alarms, however, were not yet ended.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
Long since out of its banks, its waters poured through the bottoms with an angry roar, and at night those who gathered on the brink in the town to mark its steady rising could hear cries of distress from the heavy timber, the firing of guns, and other alarms.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe