Now, however, she felt a jolt of confused alarm.

Around her she heard raised voices, full of confused alarm as people tried to dodge around the disturbance, and jostled others instead.

He turned and walked away from the balustrade and disappeared into the castle, leaving his guests to mumble in confused alarm.

The two servants who flanked the Duke stared in confused alarm.

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight".

This Adagio and the turbulent finale assemble in sound something very much like Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach": a hopeless voice, a darkling plain, confused alarms, ignorant armies.

"And we are here as on a darkling plain/Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,/Where ignorant armies clash by night."

With the question circling around in her head, and certain she would lie awake in confused alarm, she fell asleep almost instantly.

It set the laser beams winking with a million signals of confused alarm.

'We must fight on the darkling plain, swept with confused alarms,' Ryan.