trumpet of doom
Example Sentences
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If this last sound did not rouse her, I think the trumpet of doom will scarcely reach her soul.”
From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Martineau, Harriet
He was a horse that would not have raised up at the trumpet of doom.
From The Last of the Plainsmen by Grey, Zane
Rain beat in Kenny's ears like a trumpet of doom.
From Kenny by Nuyttens, Joseph Pierre
He, like Joan, was listening, as if for a trumpet of doom.
From The Border Legion by Grey, Zane
The crisis of 1847 did not break out without much foreshadowing to prudent men, but to the Rev. Josiah Codling it came like the trumpet of doom.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone
