单词 | larum call |
释义 | > as lemmaslarum call C1. General attributive, as larum call, larum drum, etc. ΚΠ 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. E Weele be as shrill as you: strike a larum drum. 1821 J. Baillie Ghost Fadon in Metrical Legends xxii Till they heard a bugle's larum call. 1830 N.-Y. Spectator 18 May The beauty of the sylvan scenery..afforded me some relief from the tattle of my talkative guide whose tongue had rung a perpetual larum-peal since the commencement of my excursion. 1856 W. R. Alger Poetry of East 165 In vain the 'larum drum is beat. 1871 A. Calkins Opium & Opium-appetite xxviii. 376 (note) The trumpet sounded the larum-call, the drum encouraged the armed band in their advance to the fierce encounter. < as lemmas |
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