trumpet of doom
Example Sentences
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He, like Joan, was listening, as if for a trumpet of doom.
From The Border Legion by Zane Grey
The sleeping lion is not dangerous; but let him be wounded and his roar shall ring as the trumpet of doom in the ears of his enemies.
From The Nation Behind Prison Bars by George L. (George Lewis) Herr
He was a horse that would not have raised up at the trumpet of doom.
From The Last of the Plainsmen by Zane Grey
Rain beat in Kenny's ears like a trumpet of doom.
From Kenny by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens
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 Harriet Martineau
