| The French armies were not far off, and there were alarums and excursions all along the border. |
| The Palghat pass, 32 km broad, has played a bigger role in the alarums and excursions of history. |
| Scattered throughout the script are calls for alarums and excursions, entrances with soldiers, marches, flourishes, parleys, and sennets. |
| As 2007 draws to a close, however, it is time to cast our minds back on the incidents and accidents, alarums and excursions that populated the year. |
| Like the recent alarums and excursions in Chile, the present upheaval in Siam is evidently a political expression of the malaise produced by the pressure of the economic crisis. |
| The story quickly died, drowned out by fresher alarums and excursions in Europe and elsewhere. |
