foredoom
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To every season But whatever its source, midlife stress does not foredoom us to a life out of control, especially in our relationships.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 5, 2015
Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
Ah! who shall paint the grandam's grim dismay, When loose Reform enticed her boy away; When shockt she heard him ape the rabble's tone, And in Old Sarum's fate foredoom her own!
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
A figure of Pan under a fig-tree, with this inscription:— "O thou, to whom Broad-leaved fig-trees even now foredoom Their ripen'd fruitage."
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
My father said blest Hymen here should join With sacred Love to make Lucinda thine; But other union these dire drums foredoom, The dark dead union of the eternal tomb.
From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow
